Krug coupling bridge

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The Krugkoppelbrücke
The north side of the bridge

The Krugkoppelbrücke is a listed building that spans the Alster on the north side of the Outer Alster between Hamburg-Harvestehude and Winterhude and the street "Krugkoppel" leads across the river.

Description and history

A first wooden bridge was built at this point in 1891 according to plans by Franz Andreas Meyer . It was one of the last wooden bridges built in Hamburg. The current 72-meter-long structure was built between 1927 and 1928 according to plans by Fritz Schumacher and Gustav Leo . The bridge consists of three braced basket arch vaults made of reinforced concrete. Schumacher chose clinker ceramics and terracottas for the facing of the parapet areas , which show vine tendrils and two-tailed sea creatures, among other things. The protruding bridge piers have embedded shell ornaments designed by Richard Kuöhl ; the parapet bears the coat of arms of the Hanseatic city .

From January 2018 to November 2019, the bridge was restored for around 5 million euros. Ornaments were renewed and 41,000 bricks were fired again.

At the bridge there is one landing stage for Alster steamers in each direction of travel .

The bridge is probably named after the restaurant "Krug Koppel" , which was built in the 16th century on the western bank of the Alster.

Traffic load

In 2013, the Krugkoppelbrücke was used by an average of 13,000 vehicles per working day, around 1 percent of which were heavy traffic.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg. Architecture - technology - history until 1945 . Ed .: Hartmut Frank, Ullrich Schwarz, Hamburg Chamber of Engineers-Bau, Museum of Work (=  series of publications of the Hamburg Architecture Archive . Volume 25 ). 1st edition. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 .
  2. ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 123 .
  3. ↑ Krugkoppelbrücke on Hamburger Alster released on www.welt.de from November 21, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019
  4. ^ Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz: The Hamburg book. Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7672-0723-0 , p. 381.
  5. ↑ Map of the average daily vehicle traffic volume on working days (Monday – Friday), Hamburg 2013 (PDF file; 5.3 MB)

Web links

Commons : Krugkoppelbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 48.4 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 57.6"  E