Queen Luise Bridge
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The Queen Luise Bridge ( Russian Мост королевы Луизы , Lithuanian Karalienės Luizos tiltas ), named after Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , connects the city of Sowjetsk (Tilsit) south of the Memel with Panemunė on the north side. The bridge was one of the most important Memel crossings to Prussian Lithuania . It has linked the Kaliningrad Oblast with Lithuania since 1946 .
history
Until 1906 there was a pontoon bridge at this point . When it was no longer able to cope with the increasing volume of traffic, a 416 m long bridge was built, which consisted of three iron arched truss girders with a drawstring, each 105 m long, and a bascule bridge . The striking bridge portal on the city side still stands today. It bore the inscription QUEEN LUISE-BRÜCKE . The baroque architectural style matched the neighboring German church . It was inaugurated on October 18, 1907 - a hundred years after the Treaty of Tilsit and Luise's petition to Emperor Napoleon . The bascule bridge was located in front of the bridge portal to allow ships up to 12 m wide with a high mast to pass through. The clearance under the arches was 19 m.
At the beginning of the First World War , in August 1914, Russian troops occupied Tilsit. When they left, they wanted to blow up the bridge . The Prussian artillery captain Fletcher managed to cut the fuse on September 12, 1914. The bridge was preserved. The grain market at the German Church, the former wood market, became Fletcher-Platz .
During the Second World War , German pioneers blew up the bridge in 1944; However , they could not prevent the capture of Tilsit by the Red Army . The southern bridge portal remained standing. A wooden pile bridge was built to replace it, followed by a wooden arch bridge in 1946/47 after the destroyed bridge had been cleared. This bridge did not withstand the floods and ice drift and soon had to be demolished because it was dilapidated. In the 1960s, a steel girder bridge with more buttresses was finally built on the old site. The bridge portal was included in a simplified form.
1.6 km downstream (to the west) was the single-track bridge for the Tilsit-Memel Railway . It was designed for two tracks. It was also blown up in 1944 by German pioneers.
Pivoting the ship bridge (1907)
Drawbridge with Wittine (1911)
Portal (1943)
Wooden bridge (1946–1950)
2008
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literature
- Ruth Kibelka : The Tilsit Bridge . Annaberg No. 7, chap. 3 Annaberg annals
- Dieckmann: Road bridge over the Memel near Tilsit, Queen Luise Bridge . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 59, 1909, issues I to III, columns 59–72 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Arthur O. Naujoks
- ↑ a b c d Hans Dzieran: The bridge over the Memel river . Kreisgemeinschaft Tilsit-Ragnit eV, www.tilsit-ragnit.de, January 25, 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Georg Friedrich (Tilsit) ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wolfgang Rehm (2000) ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 55 ° 5 ′ 1 ″ N , 21 ° 54 ′ 20 ″ E