Jerusalem Bridge (South Bridge)
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 12 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Convicted | Bundesstrasse 1 , tram | |
| Subjugated | Elbe , km 327.71 | |
| place | Magdeburg | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 210 m | |
| width | 24 m | |
| Longest span | 128 m | |
| Clear height | 5.62 m above HSW | |
| completion | 1952/1996 | |
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The Jerusalem Bridge (south bridge) is one of two bridges that spans the Elbe in Magdeburg at river kilometer 327.7 and, among other things, crosses Bundesstraße 1 .
history
The first, the Königsbrücke , was put into operation in 1903. The current construction of the arched bridge dates from 1952 and, with two lanes, is used for motor vehicle traffic to the east. In addition, a double-track tram line 5 as well as a pedestrian and bike path will be transferred. The rapidly growing traffic over the river bridge led to the construction of two more Elbe crossings in Magdeburg at the beginning of the 20th century, after several variant investigations. These were the south bridge and the north bridge train, consisting of the north bridge over the Stromelbe and the Herrenkrug bridge over the old Elbe . The construction of the bridge was decided on November 9, 1899 by the Magdeburg city council. Construction work began on June 15, 1900. The bridge superstructure consisted of a steel arch with a width of around 135 m. A concrete vault with a 28.5 m span for a flood opening was attached to this on both sides, which bridged a riverside road. The transition between the river and foreland bridge was formed by the river piers on each bank, which were the abutments of the steel arch and were built with tower structures designed in the Romanesque style. The river piers were built with caissons on rock at a depth of 13.0 m below the highest flood. The arch of the main bridge consisted of two trusses, which were arranged at a distance of 11 m. The deck slab was suspended from these via 1.3 m high cross members with hangers 7.5 m apart. In the longitudinal direction of the bridge, the two-hinged arch was the building system. To build the bridge superstructure, a large assembly frame made of wood was built into the Elbe, which had two openings with a clear width of 26.0 m for shipping. From March 15, 1903, pedestrians were allowed to use the building, and the inauguration under the name of Königsbrücke took place on May 4, 1903. The bridge construction, which was around 200 m long and 18.0 m wide, had a 9.5 m wide carriageway, which also accommodated two tracks of a tram line. In addition, walkways 3.2 m wide were arranged on both sides. The construction costs for the entire structure amounted to 1.4 million marks. In September 1927 the bridge was renamed Hindenburgbrücke . On April 18, 1945, German troops blew up the structure and destroyed it permanently.
Wilhelm Pieck Bridge 1952
In the years 1947 to 1952, the bridge was rebuilt on the existing river piers. For this purpose, the temporarily stored parts of the planned new construction of the river bridge from 1938 were used, which were delivered in 1939 but no longer used. In this 24 m wide bridge, too, the structure system in the longitudinal direction of the bridge is the two-hinged arch with a suspended carriageway. However, the 20.1 m high arch consists of two box cross-sections with riveted assembly joints. The flood openings on both sides were spanned with two-span reinforced concrete slab bridges. On September 30, 1952, the approximately 210 m long bridge, the first new bridge in the GDR , was opened to traffic as the Wilhelm Pieck Bridge.
Due to the strong increase in road traffic, the construction of a further Elbe bridge downstream began in 1994, the Jerusalem Bridge (north bridge) for western traffic . After the completion of the new Jerusalem Bridge to the north, the structure underwent a general overhaul from January 1997 to October 1998. Among other things, the entire carriageway slab was replaced and a 32 cm thick reinforced concrete slab was installed in the carriageway area, which is supported by longitudinal girders at a distance of around 4.0 m. The sidewalks and bike paths on both sides were equipped with an orthotropic deck made of steel. New approach bridges, dreistegige -beam with 1.0 m depth of system, also replaced the old buildings of 1952. Since 1998 is the building, as the adjacent new bridge, Jerusalem bridge . The bridge now only carries road traffic in the direction of Herrenkrug and the trams of line 5 in both directions.
literature
- Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways eV various years. WESKA (Western European Shipping and Port Calendar), Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag GmbH Duisburg-Ruhrort, OCLC 48960431
- Ingelore Buchholz, Jürgen Buchholz: Magdeburg Elbbrücken . In: Documentation 40/05, City Planning Office Magdeburg , pp. 79–99
- Erich Fiedler: Road bridges over the Elbe . Saxoprint, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-9808879-6-0 .
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Individual evidence
| upstream | Bridges over the Elbe | downstream |
| New Magdeburg power bridge | Jerusalem Bridge (South Bridge) |
Jerusalem Bridge (North Bridge) |