Gustav Heinemann Bridge (Berlin)
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '22 " N , 13 ° 22' 15" E
Gustav Heinemann Bridge | ||
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The Gustav Heinemann Bridge in front of the main train station | ||
use | pedestrian | |
Convicted | Friedrich-List-Ufer | |
Crossing of | Spree | |
place | Berlin-Moabit | |
construction | Steel beam | |
overall length | 88 m | |
width | 5 m | |
Longest span | 66 m | |
Clear height | 4.5 m | |
start of building | March 2005 | |
completion | September 2005 | |
opening | June 30, 2005 | |
planner | Architect Max Dudler | |
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The Gustav-Heinemann-Brücke is a pedestrian bridge over the Spree in Berlin 's Mitte district of the district of the same name . It was created in connection with the commissioning of the main train station and connects the northern Spree promenade of Rahel-Hirsch-Straße with the southern Ludwig-Erhard-Ufer .
Location and origin
In terms of urban planning, the bridge creates access to Washingtonplatz from the Spreebogenpark and, with its exact north-south orientation, connects the parliament and government district to the traffic junction of the main train station. The Tiergarten tunnel with federal highway 96 runs under the pedestrian walkway and under the Spree .
The office of the Swiss architect Max Dudler designed the modern pedestrian bridge, the engineering office Grassl carried out the structural planning. The footbridge consists of prestressed steel girders (" Vierendeel girders "), is five meters wide and 88 meters long and is supported on two concrete pillars on the banks. Riveted wooden planks form the bridge decking, the railing consists of metal struts in concrete fields. 220 tons of wood and steel were used in the construction of the bridge . The building was named in honor of the former Federal President Gustav Heinemann . The bridge was built in a short construction period and was opened on June 30, 2005 by the Senator for Urban Development Ingeborg Junge-Reyer in the presence of Christina Rau , wife of the former Federal President Johannes Rau and granddaughter of the namesake.
Neighbors and namesakes
Right next to the Gustav Heinemann Bridge there are popular river beaches on both banks of the Spree.
This Berlin pedestrian bridge has namesakes in Nuremberg , the Mögeldorf district ( Dr.-Gustav-Heinemann-Brücke ) and in Essen-Werden , where the Ruhr Bridge built in 1968 has been called the Gustav-Heinemann-Brücke since 1982 .
literature
- Eva-Marie Zimmer, Michael Mündecke: The Gustav-Heinemann-Bridge over the Spree in the new center of Berlin - Modern solutions to the vibration problems of a slim superstructure . In: Stahlbau (2006), Volume 75, pp. 624–632, doi : 10.1002 / stab.200610064
Web links
- Press release on the opening of the Gustav Heinemann Bridge
- Plans and models of the Gustav Heinemann Bridge
- 360-degree panorama of the Gustav Heinemann Bridge
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werdener Ruhrbrücke turns 40 WAZ on December 19, 2008