Kuhmühlenteichbrücke

Kuhmühlenteichbrücke, view from the Kuhmühlenbrücke, in the background St. Gertrud

The Kuhmühlenteichbrücke is a flyover of the ring line of the Hamburg U-Bahn over the western end of the Kuhmühlenteich . It connects the Hamburg districts of Uhlenhorst in the north and Hohenfelde in the south and is a registered cultural monument with the number 23305, thus part of the monument ensemble that includes the underground section from Mundsburg to Uhlandstraße with all bridges. Due to its shape, the elaborate design of the abutments and its location in the park-like environment of the Kuhmühlenteich, it is often referred to as the most beautiful bridge on the elevated railway.

history

The bridge was built in 1911/12 to designs by the architects Ludwig Raabe and Otto Wöhlecke , the in-house architects of Hamburger Hochbahn before the First World War. Because of the scenic beauty of the Kuhmühlenteich with the St. Gertrud Church in the east and the view over the Mundsburg Canal to the Outer Alster in the west, a filigree iron arch bridge with a span of 55 meters was built instead of the originally planned bridge with many supports .

When the underground train opened between Rathaus and Barmbek on February 15, 1912, the bridge had already been completed for a month.

Design of the abutments

The granite- clad abutments of the bridge are lavishly decorated. The outward-facing sides of each of the four pillars each have a symbol representation for one of the four elements . In the upper part there is a relief that shows the control of the element, in the surrounding band underneath there are depictions of animals that match the respective element. For example, in “Water” the male figure catches the rain with one arm, while the female figure fills water into a jug. Fish were chosen as animal figures here.

pier	element	Animal relief
Northwest	Fire	fire salamander
Northeast	earth	snakes
southwest	water	fishes
southeast	air	Birds

proof

↑ ^a ^b Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg, architecture - technology - history until 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , p. 135
^ Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg, Architecture - Technology - History up to 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , p. 140

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53.565935 10.025979Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 57.4 " N , 10 ° 1 ′ 33.5" E

[SB135-1] Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg, architecture - technology - history until 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , p. 135

[2] Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg, Architecture - Technology - History up to 1945 , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , p. 140