Legion Bridge (Hanover)
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '48 " N , 9 ° 43' 25" E
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The Legionsbrücke in Hanover is a busy road bridge over the Ihme and has been connecting Lavesallee on Waterlooplatz in the Hanoverian district of Calenberger Neustadt and Ritter-Brüning-Straße in Linden-Süd since the 1930s .
History and description
The Legion Bridge was originally built during the National Socialist era from 1936 onwards by the engineer and municipal building officer Karl Schwien . The structure called Ihmebrücke I at the beginning connected the highest vertices of the two dikes built along the Ihme to protect against flooding . The bridge divided Schwien into a central opening and two side openings by placing a pillar between the dike tops on each river bank.
With the superstructures from Louis Eilers Stahlbau , the engineer created a 26-meter-wide and 91-meter-long bridge with different surfaces for pedestrians, cyclists and automobiles as well as two tracks in the middle of the bridge for the Hanover tram in a construction period of 16 months .
The building, initially called Ihmebrücke I by the city's building officer and bridge-building engineer Karl Schwien , was put into operation on January 10, 1938 and was officially named "Waterloo Bridge " after the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1816 .
In the middle of World War II , the Waterloobrücke was renamed “Heydrichbrücke” in 1942 after the Holocaust organizer and SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, who was murdered in the same year . It was only after the war and with the approval of the British military authorities the bridge in 1945 was given its present name Legion Bridge in memory of the former against the troops of the French usurper Napoleon Bonaparte fighting Royal German Legion .
After provided by the customer implementation of renovation and expansion plans from the mid-1990s on behalf of the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Hanover, was in 1999 before the World Exhibition Expo 2000 another underground tunnel exit are taken from the Waterloo square in operation: After the rail towards Ricklingen over For several years until May 1999 the A-West line had to take the detour via the ramp in Gustav-Bratke-Allee, the “ Krankenhaus Siloah ” stop could now be reached directly from Waterlooplatz .
literature
- Karl Schwien: River regulations and bridge construction in Hanover. Part C. The bridges over him. In: The construction technology. Specialized publication for the entire civil engineering. 17th year, issue 42 of September 29, 1939, pp. 561-564; [1] (PDF) with drawings and historical photographs.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Helmut Zimmermann : Legion Bridge. In other words: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 157.
- ↑ a b c d Karl Schwien: River regulations and bridge construction in Hanover , part C. Die Ihmebrücken , in: Die Bautechnik. Specialized publication for civil engineering as a whole , 17th year, issue 42 of September 29, 1939, pp. 561–564; as a PDF document with drawings and historical photographs
- ↑ Hinrich Bergmeier, Günter Katzenberger (Ed.): Kulturaustreib. The influence of National Socialism on art and culture in Lower Saxony. A documentation for the exhibition of the same name. Exhibition by the Hanoverian Society for New Music in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hanover and the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover. Forum des Landesmuseum, September 7 to October 28, 1993. Hamburg: Dölling and Galitz, 1993, ISBN 978-3-926174-70-3 and ISBN 3-926174-70-6 , p. 63; Preview over google books .
- ↑ oV : D-Hanover. General construction work for bridges and elevated roads (95 / S 216-116497 / DE). In: Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Communities. Volume 38, Ed. 216-218, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, November 11, 1995; Preview over google books
- ↑ Robert Schwandl : Hannover-rail album. The Hanover Light Rail Network (= local transport in Germany , vol. 5), texts in German and English, 1st edition, Berlin: Schwandl, 2005, ISBN 978-3-936573-10-7 , passim ; Preview over google books.
