Hansabrücke

Hansabrücke
use	Road traffic
Crossing of	Spree
place	Berlin districts Hansaviertel and Moabit
construction	Steel arch bridge with orthotropic concrete cover plate
overall length	approx. 97 m
width	24.0 m
Longest span	27.75 m
Clear height	5.68 m
vehicles per day	230 trucks ; 14,500 vehicles
completion	1953
	location

52.519530555556 13.338175Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 17 ″ E

The Hansabrücke is a road bridge to cross the Spree at kilometer 11.53 of the Spree-Oder waterway in Berlin . Today's third structure with this name has its origins in a wooden yoke bridge built privately in 1892 .

location

The bridge is located in the Hansaviertel , it connects Levetzowstrasse with Altonaer Strasse and thus the districts of Hansaviertel and Moabit across the Spree. In the north-western area it has connections to the streets Hansa-Ufer and Bundesratufer , in the south-eastern part it bridges the Schleswiger Ufer and leads to the intersection with Bachstraße . The northern riverside roads are considered part of a Spreewanderweg.

history

A private client had an eleven-bay wooden bridge built between 1892 and 1894 over the Spree and Ladestrasse on the Schleswiger Ufer. When it was completed, it was named Altona Bridge after the road leading to it. Because the adjacent areas in the Moabit area were being developed intensively at the same time and the resulting residential complex was called Neues Hansaviertel , the connecting bridge was named Hansabrücke in 1895. At the beginning of the 20th century, the yoke bridge with ship passage hatches no longer met the increased traffic requirements, so a new structure was commissioned. The architect Bruno Möhring , the civil engineer Friedrich Krause and the sculptor Walter Schmarje provided the plans for a new stone bridge, the design and appearance of which largely corresponded to the Lessing Bridge . Because the river was relatively narrow at the new location chosen a little above the old wooden bridge, the new Hansabrücke only had a vaulted arch with a span of 50 meters. The focal point of the construction was a three-storey bridge house in half-timbered construction based on the model of Hanseatic gabled houses. A bridge keeper had his apartment here, and it also housed storage and service rooms for the neighboring freight port. The new Hansabrücke was inaugurated in 1910.

During the Second World War , this bridge was destroyed, as was the entire surrounding residential area. The first to be repaired pipelines to supply the remaining buildings served the people as an emergency walkway. In order to restart the water transport route Spree, the Berlin administration had the obstacles in the river blown up, whereby the remaining remains of the bridge with the bridge house and loading street were now so badly damaged that they had to be removed in 1950. In the years 1952/1953 the bridge could be rebuilt in simplified forms using the existing abutments and foundations. The resulting third Hansabrücke is a purely functional structure with a concrete deck on eight arched girders lying next to each other. At the beginning of the 1970s, the structure was extensively refurbished, with transitional structures being retrofitted, the girders reinforced and the reinforced concrete slab re-sealed. The abutments and overpasses of the former loading streets were clad in sandstone.

particularities

Schifferbrunnen on the Hansabrücke

The relief of the Hansekogge from the former bridge house

In the bridge pillar at the north-western end is the bas-relief of a Hanseatic cog , which used to be located above the entrance of the bridge house. In 1914 a boat fountain designed by Hermann Hosaeus was set up on the bridge . A sandstone pillar rises in the middle of a twelve-sided basin with a diameter of 2.80 meters. On it sits a barefoot boatman playing the accordion . The four frogs below the feet were the gargoyles. For a few years no more water has flowed from the well, but the basin has been planted. The entire bridge with the Schifferbrunnen on the south-eastern bank is now a listed building .

In July 2009 the Hansabrücke was the starting point for a boat party under the motto Berlin Beats & Boats and East Port Festival .

Numerous shipping companies have their berths or moorings at the Hansabrücke. The newly built café ship “Spree-Blick” of the Riedel shipping company , which also serves as a boathouse, has been firmly anchored on the Hansabrücke since 2006 .

Bridges with the same name

In the port area of Hamburg , a Hansabrücke leads the Veddeldamm over the access to the Saale port .

In Szczecin there was an iron truss arch bridge called Hansabrücke , which was destroyed around 1944. After it was rebuilt, it was called the Langebrücke (Most Długi) .

In Herford there is the Hansabrücke , which, as a basket arch bridge with three vaults, carried Hansastraße and the tracks of the Herford small railways over the Werre river at the confluence with the Aa . This bridge collapsed in 1946 due to flooding and was rebuilt after the railway system was dismantled. A picture from 2009 shows a simple girder bridge in the same place, which now leads Hansastrasse over the river, but no longer officially bears this name.

Another Hansa bridge is located on the grounds of the Naval School in Flensburg .

In the former East Prussian Libau there was an iron truss bridge with overhead arches, which was called the Hansa Bridge .

From two photos that can be found on the Internet it can be deduced that there is a Hansa bridge over the Pfinz river in Berghausen .

In the former Hansa mine in the Senftenberg coal mine there was an overburden bridge called the Hansabrücke.

literature

Thiemann, Deszyk, Metzing: Berlin and his bridges , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 119, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hansabrücke - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Information from WSA Berlin on Hansabrücke from September 15, 2012 (PDF; 287 kB)

↑ Traffic volumes for trucks in 2014 . Road traffic census 2014 as of October 16, 2015 (pdf)

↑ Traffic volume map DTV 2014: vehicles in 24 hours

↑ Brief information from the Berlin city map for hiking trail no. 1 on the Spree; accessed on January 20, 2016

↑ Hansabrücke and Fischerbrunnen on Luise-Berlin

↑ Architectural monument Hansabrücke with staircases, jewelry and fountain

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