Long Bridge (Braunschweig)

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Long bridge
Braunschweig city center (1899)
The former location of the Long Bridge in the city center of Braunschweig
The Long Bridge on a map of the city of Braunschweig from 1829
The Long Bridge, engraving from 1750 (on the right in the background the Aegidienkirche, on the left the west facade of the Great Orphanage). The long bridge with gate and bridge tower around 1650. 19th century lithograph.
The Long Bridge, engraving from 1750 (on the right in the background the Aegidienkirche , on the left the west facade of the Great Orphanage ).
The long bridge with gate and bridge tower around 1650. 19th century lithograph.

The Long Bridge in Braunschweig was the largest inner-city bridge until it was demolished in 1879.

History of construction and use

On the border of the two precincts Old Town and Altewiek a wooden bridge spanned two in the Middle Ages Okerarme . The building was located in the area of ​​today's streets Kattreppeln, Münzstraße, Waisenhausdamm, Hinter Liebfrauen and Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße.

The bridge is mentioned for the first time at the end of the 13th century in the Braunschweigische Reimchronik as the fiercely contested scene of the unsuccessful siege of the Guelph city ​​by the Staufer King Philip of Swabia (1177–1208) in 1200: The storm was so creftich and so lanc, daz dhe be helde balt quemen with krapht and by force unz on the Langhen bridge, ...

In 1303 it is known as longus Pons and in 1314 as long brukke . A stone bridge was built in 1480. Between 1788 and 1791 a new building designed by court architect Christian Gottlob Langwagen (1752 / 53−1805) was carried out by Wilhelm von Gebhardi (1738–1809). The four-arched building with a wide central pillar spanned the 35 m wide Oker. In 1879 the Long Bridge was demolished in the course of the Oker Canalization. The oker arms were filled in.

literature

  • Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets, their names and their history. Volume 1: City Center , Cremlingen 1995
  • Richard Moderhack : Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte , Braunschweig 1997
  • Norman-Mathias Pingel: Lange Brücke , in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon, supplementary volume , edited on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with substantial assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, Braunschweig 1996, pp. 86-87, ISBN 3 -926701-30-7

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 24 ″  E