Empress Friedrich Bridge
The Kaiserin-Friedrich-Brücke is a bridge over the Urselbach on the left side of Kanonenstraße (1.4 km north of Oberursel , not far from the Oberursel-Hohemark underground station ). It is listed as a cultural monument.
From 1889 to 1893/94 Schloss Friedrichshof was prepared as a widow's residence in Kronberg im Taunus for the former German Empress Victoria (Kaiserin Friedrich) . At the same time, a system of paths from Friedrichshof Palace to Oberstedten was created to create a connection to Bad Homburg Palace . As a transition over the Urselbach (which still bears the name Heidetränkbach there), the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Brücke was built in 1891 as part of the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Weg.
It is a brick-built barrel vault bridge with wing walls. The apex of the bridge arch is a terminal stone in which the letters "F" for Friedrich and "V" for Victoria are carved. In addition, the stone shows the German emperor's coat of arms. The stonemason was the Homburg court sculptor Jacob May.
The construction was organized by the royal chief forester Freiherr von Huene in Bad Homburg . The imperial court architect Louis Jacobi was responsible for the construction planning and management . The cost was estimated at 5000 marks. On October 11, 1891, Jacobi and the Empress visited the completed bridge; on October 31, it was connected to the path and was usable.
In 1905, the communities of Kronberg and Eschborn , the Obertaunuskreis and the palace administration of Schloss Friedrichshof agreed on the distribution of the maintenance costs. The road was later upgraded to a second-order state road and the Idstein Road Construction Office was responsible for the road. In fact, however, it was a forest path that was mainly used to transport wood. In 1961, the status as a state road was therefore deleted. The owner of the bridge was the Markgenossenschaft Hohe Mark and since its dissolution the city of Frankfurt am Main . The bridge has been listed as a cultural monument since 1989. It is in need of renovation, the cost of a renovation was estimated at 53,000 euros in 2014.
literature
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 479 .
- Hermin Herr: Lexicon from the High Taunus . Ed .: Taunusklub Stammklub e. V . Waldemar Kramer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , p. 61-62 .
- Bernd Ochs: A road through the local forest with a bridge over the Heidetränkbach for Empress Friedrich. In: Mitteilungen des Geschichtsverein Oberursel, issue 48 - 2010, ISSN 0342-2879, pp. 24-31, (research).
- Walter A. Ried: Bridge in Kronberg: The stone anniversary girl crumbles . In: Taunus newspaper . Frankfurter Societäts-Medien , October 31, 2016, p. 15 ( full text [accessed March 5, 2017]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 5.1 ″ E