Kunitz house bridge
The Kunitzer Hausbrücke, also known as the Kunitzer Holzhausbrücke , is a covered bridge over the Saale near Jena . It existed from 1832 to 1945 and was rebuilt in 2012.
history
Until 1832, Kunitz could only be reached by crossing the Saale by ferry . Time and again, people were killed because of missing ferry tickets. This was also the case on April 4, 1829, on which, according to tradition, seven students who wanted to return to Jena after a visit to the Kunitzburg had an accident . Among the three fatally injured was the twenty-year-old Georg Friedrich Semper from Altona , the younger brother of Johann Carl and Gottfried Semper .
On this occasion, a planned new bridge was pushed by the pastor Daniel Gottlob Schillbach . He convinced Johann, who visited the site of the accident in the fall of 1829 and originally wanted to have a memorial erected there, to invest the amount of money in the new bridge instead. He promised 500 thalers if the new building should start within two years. Another 600 thalers came from the miller Gottlob Häselbarth from Kunitz, merchants and professors from Jena donated 90 thalers. Donations from local residents increased the total to 1,800 thalers.
The estimated total amount of 4,000 thalers was finally completed by a loan from the provincial administration, whereupon the foundation stone was laid on February 22nd, 1832 and a 35-meter-long covered wooden bridge was subsequently built. Their topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 8, 1832. A bridge fee was charged to refinance the loan . In 1945 the bridge was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in the last weeks of the war.
The historic timber house bridge was rebuilt in 2012 and inaugurated in November 2012 on the pillars of a makeshift bridge that served as a temporary replacement for the Kunitz road bridge during its renovation in 2011. The house bridge is the only house bridge that spans the Saale.
Every year on October 3rd, the day of German unity , the bridge festival is organized by the Kunitz Bridge and Monument Association.
Web links
- On the history of the old Kunitz house bridge (PDF; 428 kB)
- Photograph of the wooden bridge before it was destroyed
References and comments
- ↑ Hölz, Christoph: Semper, Gottfried. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 24. 2010, pp. 243–247 , archived from the original on February 27, 2016 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Kunitzer Bridge and Monument Association (ed.): The Kunitzer Hausbrücke
- ↑ JC Zenker writes on p. 125 of his historical-topographical paperback of Jena and its surroundings in 1836 (!) That the bridge was built in 1831.
- ↑ Inauguration of the Neue Kunitzer Hausbrücke on jenapolis.de , accessed on November 18, 2012
- ↑ Article by TLZ.de (from September 24, 2010)
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 54.8 ″ E