Hallertorbrücke

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 14 ″  E

Hallertorbrücke
Hallertorbrücke
View from the Kettensteg under the Fronveste to the Hallertor Bridge
use Street, pedestrian and cycle paths, tram
Subjugated Pegnitz
place Nuremberg
construction Arch bridge
overall length 63.0
width 27.0
Number of openings 2
opening 1697, expanded and renovated in 1881, 1936/37, 1963/64 and 2015/16
location
Hallertor Bridge (Bavaria)
Hallertorbrücke

The Hallertorbrücke is a listed arched bridge over the Pegnitz on the west side of Nuremberg's old town.

location

The building is located directly outside the last city fortifications, downstream of the Fronveste . From the south it borders on the Hallertor, which was built in 1881/82 . Below the north-western side of the bridge is the Hallerwiese park and in the north-western abutment is the Schnepperschütz café. The bridge is part of the street from Plärrer over the Westtorgraben to Neutorgraben.

history

Predecessor bridges

As a bridge in front of the Hallertürlein , a pedestrian passage created around 1519, a Pegnitz crossing was built in 1564. It was a two-arched wooden bridge, which fell victim to the floods of 1595 next to the Fleischbrücke and the Henkersteg . The reconstruction in 1598 was carried out in oak over a stone pillar and the bridge was repaired several times in the 17th century.

New building in 1697

In 1697 the Hallertorbrücke was rebuilt as a two-arched stone bridge. This still exists today and forms the middle part of the bridge, which has been widened several times at the sides.

Reconstruction in 1881/82

View from the bridge to the Neutor 1890. The horse-drawn tram turns right towards the town hall.

In 1881 the route from the Laufertor via the town hall to the Plärrer was opened as one of the first Nuremberg horse-drawn tram lines . The tracks led through the Hallertor, which was built for this purpose, and over the Hallertorbrücke. In order to create space for the pedestrians next to the tram tracks, the footpaths were relocated to steel consoles attached to the side. In 1898 the tram line was electrified and the new line to the Westfriedhof opened. In 1903 the line followed via the Tiergärtnertor to the Maxtor.

Redesign 1936/37

As part of the expansion of Reichsstrasse 4 to Erlangen and Kiel, the baroque bridge was widened on both sides in 1936. In addition to the traffic engineering redesign, a design in line with the National Socialist ideology was also implemented. The bridge was renamed the Wilhelm Gustloff Bridge. In the middle of the bridge an obelisk was erected in honor of Gustloff, whose inscription "Murdered by a Jew" made all Jews responsible for the crime in an anti-Semitic way. The Beethoven monument was erected on the north-western abutment, which had to give way when the square in front of the opera was converted into Richard-Wagner-Platz.

Expansion in 1963/64

Bottom view of the southern arch of the Hallertorbrücke: from left to right the arches from 1963, 1936, 1697 and 1936

The bridge survived the Second World War damaged, but still usable. Only the tram line through the Hallertor was destroyed in the great bombing raid on January 2, 1945 and not rebuilt. During the last expansion in 1963 and 1964, a further eight meters were added to the west side. The pedestrian and cycle path underpass leading from the Hallertürlein to the Hallerwiese was created in the northern abutment. In 2009, the toilet facilities in the northwestern abutment were converted into the Schnepperschütz café. In 2011 the bridge in its current form was placed under monument protection with the extensions .

Refurbishment 2015/16

Construction of the southern pedestrian underpass in 2016

In 2015 and 2016, the bridge was completely renovated so that it could withstand traffic for decades to come. The bridge arches were refurbished and partially attached to the underside with a 2 cm thick layer of shotcrete. To increase the load-bearing capacity, a concrete deck slab was installed on top of the bridge. In the southern abutment, a new cycle and footpath connection was created, which makes the routes from the western parts of the city to the old town significantly shorter and more convenient. In this context, the adjacent Kontumaz garden was redesigned.

traffic

Tram train 1121 on the bridge

Today the bridge structure is 63 meters long and 27 meters wide. It carries four road lanes, a double-track track for the tram and sidewalks and cycle paths on both sides. There are crossing pedestrian and cycle path underpasses under both abutments.

Tram lines 4 run over the bridge from Gibitzenhof to Am Wegfeld and 6 from the documentation center to the Westfriedhof. Line 4 is to be extended as a city-suburban railway to Erlangen and Herzogenaurach. The local transport development plan 2025 also includes the reconstruction of the northern crossing of the old town via the town hall to Rathenauplatz with the high cost-benefit ratio of 4.59. The eastern cycle path is part of the Nuremberg main cycle path network.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hallertorbrücke Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hallertorbrücke in: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (ed.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
  2. ^ Robert Binder: City traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1881 to 1981 . Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft 1988, page 30 f.
  3. ^ Robert Binder: City traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1881 to 1981 . Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft 1988, page 52
  4. ↑ Anti-Semitism from tax money: The example of the Nuremberg “Gustloff Bridge ” on rijo-research
  5. ↑ a b c d e New pedestrian and cycle path underpass. General renovation of the Hallertorbrücke in Nuremberg , Bayerischer Staatsanzeiger from February 2, 2017
  6. ^ Robert Binder: City traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1881 to 1981 . Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft 1988, page 172
  7. ↑ Café Schnepperschütz in the gastro guide of the Nürnberger Presse publishing house
  8. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: List of monuments Nuremberg (city) , status February 24, 2018, entry no. D-5-64-000-2855 on page 337
  9. ↑ NVEP 2025 - transport development plan on the website of the city of Nuremberg, compilation
  10. ↑ Nuremberg bicycle city map