Jahn Bridge

The Jahnbrücke connects the Hamburg districts of Winterhude and Barmbek-Nord on the edge of City Nord . It is part of the main road network of Hamburg in the course of Ring 2 and carries the official road code J118.

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The name given in 1967 refers to the Jahnring, the continuation of which is the Jahnbrücke. The Jahnring is named after "gymnastics father" Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852).

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The Jahnbrücke as part of the previously planned city motorway network

The Jahnbrücke is not an actual bridge, but the name of a section of Ring 2 that connects the Jahnring in Winterhude with Lauensteinstraße in Barmbek-Nord. This includes three bridge structures:

The western bridge is a preliminary construction work for the east bypass planned but not built in the 1960s, an urban motorway connection from the A 7 in the north of Hamburg to the A 25 in the southeast of the city. It has a clear width of around 30 meters. Hamburg's first express bicycle route runs here as part of Veloroute 5 from the city center to Hamburg-Duvenstedt .
The middle bridge is a little-used pedestrian crossing under the road that connects the allotment gardens north and south of the Jahnbrücke. In June 2018, the underpass was thoroughly cleaned and then completely sprayed by a group of artists.
The eastern bridge is a flyover over the freight bypass and the extension of the Hamburg-Altona connecting line between Barmbek and Ohlsdorf , which is used by the S1 and S11 lines of the Hamburg S-Bahn . It has a clear width of about 40 meters.

The road is 370 meters long and rises from 11.4 meters at its western end to 18.9 meters at the highest point of the bridge over the railway lines. There are three lanes per direction of travel as well as one cycle path and one foot path.