Löbtau Bridge

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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 20 ″  E

Löbtau Bridge
Löbtau Bridge
Löbtauer Bridge over Weißeritz and Löbtauer Straße
use B173 Outer city ring
Subjugated Weißeritz , Freiberger Strasse , Löbtauer Strasse
place Dresden
construction Reinforced concrete bridge
overall length 998 m
Longest span 55 m
start of building 1989
completion 1996
opening November 29, 1996
location
Löbtau Bridge (Saxony)
Löbtau Bridge

The Löbtauer Brücke (also Löbtauer Hochstraße ) is a one kilometer long elevated road in Dresden . Together with the Nossener Bridge and the Emerich-Ambros-Ufer, it is part of the outer city ring , which in this section connects the Cotta district with the southern suburb .

Location and course

The Löbtau Bridge begins in the Löbtau district as an extension of the Nossener Bridge at the level of the thermal power station . There, Kesselsdorfer Straße , Freiberger Straße and Löbtauer / Tharandter Straße are connected via feeder ramps to Ebertplatz . At Ebertplatz the structure bridges the Weißeritz and is then following this river to the north to the district boundary to Cotta and Friedrichstadt . There it is connected with two ramps to the Emerich-Ambros-Ufer on the left and right of the Weißeritz.

It has two structurally separate carriageways with two lanes each and, with a length of 998 meters, is one of the few elevated roads in Dresden.

history

Demolition work on the corner of Freiberger Strasse and Willi-Ermer-Platz, 1988

Plans for an extension of the Nossener Bridge, which was first built in 1889 and rebuilt in 1964, have existed in the GDR since the 1960s . These became more concrete in the 1970s after the completion of the first residential units in the new prefabricated housing estate in Gorbitz . A large part of the traffic from the city center to the district, which later had more than 40,000 inhabitants, used the Kesselsdorfer Straße, which was not designed for these loads. In 1988, preparatory measures began with the demolition of some residential buildings along the planned course of the bridge, which provided for the continuation of the "Bridge of the Young" (Nossener Bridge), which had previously ended above Willi-Ermer-Platz (today Ebertplatz), for about 360 meters to behind Wernerplatz . Construction continued after the fall of the Wall , but was generally controversial, so that the then building mayor Ingolf Roßberg initially imposed a construction freeze in 1991.

In the following years there was extensive rescheduling, which included a further extension to Emerich-Ambros-Ufer and made it necessary to demolish some of the buildings that had already been completed. Construction of the rescheduled elevated road resumed in 1993 and continued until 1996. Construction was carried out by the "Bauunion Süd", which emerged from the VEB Autobahnbaukombinat . The name "Löbtau Bridge" was given in 1996, the official inauguration of the structure took place on November 29, 1996.

After the completion of the Brams tunnel north of the Löbtauer bridge, the federal highway 173 was relocated from the Kesselsdorfer Straße to the street Coventrystraße (east), Fröbelstraße , Emerich-Ambros-Ufer, Löbtauer / Nossener Brücke and Budapester Straße .

In October 2011, around 40,000 vehicles used the bridge every day, the proportion of heavy goods traffic was 5%.

Repair work was carried out on the bridge in summer 2015. Among other things, damaged parts were replaced, the transition structures to the rest of the roadway and the seal were renewed and a new asphalt surface was applied. There were construction costs of around half a million euros.

Web links

Commons : Löbtauer Brücke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • Peter Hilbert: Bridge builders build up and tear down . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 15, 2013
  • Peter Hilbert: First plans in the 1960s . In: Sächsische Zeitung, January 15, 2013
  • Peter Hilbert: From the Hohenzollern Bridge to the Bridge of Youth . In: Sächsische Zeitung, February 2, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. a b Löbtau bridges. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  2. Traffic counts . In: Dresden themed city map. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  3. Löbtau Bridge is being renovated. In: dresden.de. August 14, 2015, accessed April 8, 2020 .