Chancellery walkway
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 2 ″ E
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| use | Pedestrians and special vehicles | |
| Crossing of | Spree | |
| place | District Berlin-Mitte | |
| construction | Reinforced concrete construction with Z-cross section, a mixture of tied arches and Vierendeel girders | |
| overall length | 116 m | |
| width | 3.80 m (lower flange ), 2.95 m (upper walkway) | |
| Headroom | 4.50 m | |
| completion | 2000 | |
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The Chancellery Walkway in Berlin is part of the new parliament and government buildings built in the 1990s and is not open to the public. It is used by members of the German federal government and their guests as a connection from the official seat to the Chancellor Park on the north bank of the Spree .
Location and construction
The Chancellery Bridge is located between the Luther Bridge and the Moltke Bridge at Spreekilometer 14.1.
The so-called band of the federal government , implemented by various architectural offices , contains a bridge that crosses the Spree to the northwest, symmetrically to the “ Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Steg ”. This connects the fifth and sixth floors of the Federal Chancellery with the northern bank of the Spree and the government helipad. The footbridge, which was completed together with the Federal Chancellery in 2001, consists of an upper pedestrian walkway and a lower driveway. The structure crosses the Spree at an angle of 40 degrees and is guided non-linearly on its northwestern pillar: the lower flange crosses under the upper part of the bridge. With this and with the installation of vibration absorbers , the torsional vibrations to be expected in this open bridge structure could be kept low.
The building competitions held in the 1990s envisaged another Spree bridge, the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Steg. This footbridge was intended to allow federal employees to cross the Spree from the residential complex to be built in Moabiter Werder to the southern wing of the building with the offices. The award-winning designs show a filigree metal construction perpendicular to the Spree on two pillars set up in the Spree bed. This bridge, named after the scientist Magnus Hirschfeld , was not built due to lack of money and changes in planning.
literature
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and its bridges . Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , pp. 114-115.
- Nikolaus Bernau: Temporary solutions - Berlin has many interesting bridges. But there is still no landmark for the city . In: Berliner Zeitung . October 22, 2003.
Web links
- Homepage of the company Karl Gotsch with bridge data
- Another photo of the footbridge at Karl Gotsch
- Details; Federal Chancellery with aerial photos also of the Chancellery footbridge ( memento from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Federal construction company
