Hiroshimasteg
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 27 ″ E
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| use | Pedestrians , cyclists | |
| Crossing of | Landwehr Canal | |
| place | Berlin Tiergarten | |
| construction | symmetrical single-arch steel construction with wooden planking | |
| overall length | 24 m | |
| width | 3.70 m | |
| completion | 1987 | |
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The Hiroshimasteg is a pedestrian bridge over the Landwehr Canal in the Berlin-Tiergarten district . Today's single-arched steel construction dates back to 1987. It is located on the site of the canal where an iron bridge for pedestrians was built in 1834.
history
The wrought-iron footbridge from the first third of the 19th century was initially nameless, on December 5, 1885 it was named Lützowbrücke . He established a connection from Hohenzollernstrasse on Reichpietschufer with Lützowufer via the Landwehr Canal. The Lützow Bridge was renamed Graf-Spee-Brücke on December 7, 1933 , with which the National Socialist rulers honored the German naval officer Maximilian von Spee .
The small bridge was destroyed in World War II and only rebuilt around 40 years later. The design of the two-hinged arch construction is based on the first pedestrian walkway and was initially renamed Graf-Spee-Brücke. It rests on concrete abutments on both banks and runs diagonally across the water. On November 1, 1990, a good 45 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the Tiergarten district council at that time decided to rename the bridge to Hiroshimasteg . As early as September 1, 1990, Graf-Spee-Strasse, which ran towards the bridge, was named Hiroshimastrasse in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack. A brass plaque on the east side of the bridge on Reichpietschufer contains the inscription Hiroshimasteg in Latin and Japanese characters.
In the vicinity of the bridge
Close to the footbridge are the Bauhaus Archive Museum , the Japanese Embassy in Berlin , the Italian Cultural Institute, the Federal Ministry of Defense on Bendlerstrasse and some representations of German federal states.
literature
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and his bridges , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , p. 149.
Web links
- Hiroshimasteg. In: Structurae
- History and pictures of the old bridge on "pontoon"
- private homepage with a winter picture of the Hiroshima bridge
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the Hiroshimasteg on Luise-Berlin
- ↑ Old Berlin city map from 1893 with the location of the bridge and the surrounding streets. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Berlin bridges on "Your City Map"
- ^ Speech by the Japanese ambassador on the occasion of a peace concert in August 2009; Retrieved October 20, 2009
- ↑ Homepage of the Italian cultural institute in Hildebrandstrasse