Herbert Weichmann Bridge

The Herbert-Weichmann-Brücke is a road bridge in the Hamburg district of Uhlenhorst . With it the street of the same name crosses the Uhlenhorster Canal . The bridge has been named after the former Hamburg mayor Herbert Weichmann since 1985 . It was previously called Adolphstrasse Bridge and was renamed at the same time as the street. The original name goes back to the Hamburg merchant Adolph Jencquel . Jencquel belonged to the group of investors around August Abendroth , who opened up the Uhlenhorst in the middle of the 19th century and created numerous canals in the process.

Today's Herbert-Weichmann-Brücke was built in 1893. It is an arched iron bridge between stone abutments.

The Herbert-Weichmann-Brücke is registered with the number 20582 as a cultural monument in the list of monuments of the Hamburg authority for culture and media .

literature

Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg bridges. Their names - where they come from and what they mean , Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2007

Individual evidence

^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon , Eilert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , page 709
↑ ^a ^b Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg Architecture - Technology - History up to 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, p. 96, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 .
↑ List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , accessed on January 9, 2020

53.572818 10.013204Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 47.5 ″ E

[1] Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon , Eilert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , page 709

[Sve-2] Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg Architecture - Technology - History up to 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, p. 96, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 .

[3] List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , accessed on January 9, 2020