Lesum Bridge

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Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 25 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 15 ″  E

Lesum Bridge
Lesum Bridge
The new bridge from 2013
use Road bridge
Convicted Burger Heerstraße / Bremer Heerstraße
Subjugated Lesum
place Bremen - Burglesum
Entertained by Office for Roads and Transport Bremen
construction Tied arch bridge
overall length 70.15 m
width 17.20 m
Longest span 70.15 m
height 11.55 m
Clear height 2.5 m at medium high tide
completion 2013
location
Lesum Bridge (Bremen)
Lesum Bridge

The Lesumbrücke is a road bridge over the Lesum in today's Bremen district of Burglesum . It has been connecting the two banks for over 600 years.

General

Until 1939, the Lesum was the border between the city of Bremen and the Prussian-Hanoverian communities to the north . It is particularly narrow at this point and therefore particularly suitable for a fixed crossing. For the people of Bremen, but also for their enemies, the bridge and the fortress built for protection on the southern side of the Lesum were a strategically important object. Over the centuries, the Danes (1625), Swedes (1645 and 1653) and French (1757) took over the bridge. Because of its importance as a trade route , the Swedish Field Marshal Erik Dahlberg called it the "key to Bremen".

The bridges

Over the course of history, the bridge had to be replaced several times as it was destroyed by wars or natural disasters . For example in 1547 in the Schmalkaldic War , in 1627 when the Danes withdrew or in 1686 through ice drift . Of the now twelve bridges, the following are known:

  • The first fixed crossing was a wooden bridge built in 1350 .
  • In 1823 Bremen and the Kingdom of Hanover built a wooden bascule bridge that allowed ships to pass through and could interrupt the route to Bremen in the event of danger.
  • The first steel bridge was built in 1892/93, with imperial eagles and the Bremen key on the steel girders. On April 25, 1945, a few days before the end of the Second World War , the bridge was blown up.
  • A makeshift bridge was built after the war .
  • In 1950 a new steel bridge was built. After checks showed that it no longer met the increased requirements of road traffic, a replacement building was commissioned.
  • The current Lesum Bridge was completed in 2013. The tied arch bridge is around 70 m long, 17 m wide and weighs around 550 tons .

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