List of bridges in Berlin

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The list of bridges in Berlin contains an alphabetical, tabular overview with basic information about the bridges in the city. In Berlin , around 2100 bridges lead over traffic routes such as roads , motorways , railways and waterways or over natural obstacles such as rivers and gorges . The list includes some of the existing and former bridges - it does not claim to be exhaustive.

Former Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in 1900 ( Liebknecht Bridge since 1949 )
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Short story and number of bridges

Jungfernbrücke from 1798, the oldest surviving bridge in Berlin

The first bridge in Berlin was built with the establishment of the twin cities of Cölln- Berlin in the late 12th or early 13th century. The structure, which was soon replaced by the Mühlendamm , led over an arm of the Spree and connected Cölln, which was on the Spree island , with Berlin in the marshy lowlands of the Berlin glacial valley . The ford in which it originated had an important function during this time of the German eastern settlement as the shortest link between the plateaus of the Teltow and Barnim . In 1737, after Berlin was de-fortified , the city had 26 bridges and by 1838 their number rose to 98, including the Jungfernbrücke from 1798, the oldest surviving bridge in Berlin. The address book of 1822 contains 33 water crossings for the then city of Berlin. With the industrial revolution and the creation of long-distance railway lines, the ring railway and canals, the number exploded. The Landwehr Canal alone, built between 1840 and 1850, required over thirty bridges, which, originally designed as wooden bascule bridges , have been replaced by massive structures since the 1870s. There were also park bridges as 1838, the Lions' Bridge of Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse in Tiergarten , the oldest suspension bridge in the city. The bridges had an important function in Berlin. On December 30, 1875, a contract between the city and the Prussian state created the bridge building administration of Berlin, which existed continuously as city or state administration. At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of bridges in today's Berlin urban area increased due to construction measures such as the Teltow Canal, which opened in 1906, or as a result of the elevation of railway lines. A number of new bridges were added later with the construction of the motorways. The longest bridge in Berlin is the Rudolf-Wissell-Brücke on the federal motorway 100 (city ring), which spans the Spree, Spreeaue and the Charlottenburg lock with a length of 930 meters .

At the end of the war in 1945, of the 220 most important road bridges, particularly during the battle for Berlin, 127 were destroyed, 122 of them over watercourses and five over railways. The Spandau Charlottenbrücke remained the only Havel crossing, the Freybrücke was destroyed, the Stößenseebrücke was preserved. The Weidendammerbrücke remained undamaged from the Spree bridges, the Schilling and Kronprinzen bridges damaged and still usable. 38 of the 41 Teltow Canal Bridge were destroyed. This also interrupted the supply lines. Temporary bridges were built primarily for their own logistics by Soviet pioneers, and from July 1945 by the Western Allies in their sectors. The maintenance of these “military” bridges has already been entrusted to the city's bridge construction office. As a result of this situation, the question of ownership between the city and Teltow Canal bridges took a back seat. In May 1946 there were 55 emergency bridges. A lack of material made itself felt as limiting for the construction. Linseed oil was used as food instead of red lead.

According to the definition of a bridge

“All overpasses of a traffic route over another traffic route, over a body of water or over lower lying terrain are considered bridges if their clear width between the abutments is 2.00 meters or more. [...] "

- DIN 1076

According to Wolfgang Nagel , then Senator for Construction and Housing, the number of bridges in Berlin in 1991, including pedestrian and elevated railway bridges, was around 2100, including 564 bridges over water. However, the information varies considerably depending on the method of counting. According to other information, the number is 969 or 1650 bridges. The individual numbers can change due to demolition and new construction.

Structure of the alphabetical list

Information

Anhalter Steg over the Landwehr Canal

The names of the bridges are represented in five different basic forms:

  • Sample bridge = name in the blue link : There is a separate article for this bridge with more detailed information.
  • Sample bridge = name in the red link : This bridge is very likely important enough for creating your own in-depth article.
  • Sample bridge = name without link : This bridge is very probably not important enough for creating your own article.
  • Musterbrücke = name in italics : Former bridges, including some of the decorative bridges from the fortress era, often with colonnades , which were partly superfluous and dismantled after the fortress ditches were largely leveled.
  • (Sample bridge ) = name in brackets : nameless bridges. The alphabetical classification of the nameless bridges is based on the most precise geographical information possible, for example under "T" bridges over the Teltow Canal or according to the type of bridge as under "A" motorway bridge or "E" railway bridge.

If available, the list shows each bridge with a photograph. In addition to the name of each bridge, it also gives the district in which it is located, under “Notes” the most important information and in the last column the location - a click on the link leads to a map view. Insofar as names have been assigned several times or changed over the course of time from building to building, as was the case with the Potsdamer Bridge , corresponding information can be found with the current building.

The mostly nameless bridges over railway lines on roads are for the most part under E as railway bridge inserted.

Three examples of representation

photography Name of the bridge District Remarks location
Berlin Island of Youth - Abteibrücke.jpg Abbey Bridge Alt-Treptow The Abbey Bridge is the first reinforced concrete bridge in Germany and leads in the Berlin district of Alt-Treptow as a pedestrian crossing to the Insel der Jugend . It was completed in 1916 and replaced a ferry that brought visitors to the Spree Island . The bridge is a listed building. map
Von-der-Heydt Bridge, 1896 Von-der-Heydt Bridge Zoo Former bridge over the Landwehr Canal , the predecessor of the 1957/58 newly built Bendler Bridge . The building was decorated with two sculptures ( mermaids and tritons ) by Ernst Herter , which were melted down in 1943/44. It was named August von der Heydts , who owned a villa on the Landwehr Canal, today the seat of the President and the headquarters of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . The historical photo shows the bridge in 1896. map
Former S-Bahn bridge Spree Altarm 01.JPG (Railway bridge) Charlottenburg The steel truss bridge over the old arm of the Spree , which has not been used for a long time , used to lead an S-Bahn line to Siemensstadt . The old arm of the Spree was created during the construction of the new Charlottenburg lock . It has since been separated and closed to all shipping traffic. map

Bridges over canals and rivers, sorting downstream

Here is a list of the bridges over some of Berlin's main waters, downstream or downstream, or descending according to the kilometer information.

Havel

Sorting downstream, from Nieder Neuendorfer See to Glienicker Lake :

Landwehr Canal

Sorting down the canal, from the upper Spree at the Osthafen or the Oberschleuse at the Lohmühleninsel to the lower Spree at the confluence with the Spree and the Charlottenburg connecting canal :

Panke

Spree

Sorting down the Spree, from Dämeritzsee to the confluence with the Havel :

Teltow Canal

For the bridges of the Teltow Canal there is a side list with additional bridges that are not in Berlin:


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literature

  • Pedestrian bridges in Berlin . Senator for Building and Housing, Berlin 1976. The brochure only contains the pedestrian bridges in Berlin (West) .
  • Eberhard Heinze, Eckhard Thiemann, Laurenz Demps : Berlin and its bridges. Transpress Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00105-1 .
  • Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Desczyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and its bridges . 1st edition. Jaron-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 .
  • Jan Feustel , Horst Köhler: Lifeline through swamp and sand , 100 years of the Teltow Canal . 1st edition. Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-930388-36-7
  • Hans-J. Uhlemann: Berlin and the Märkische waterways . transpress Verlag Berlin, various years, ISBN 3-344-00115-9 .
  • Writings of the Association for European Inland Shipping and Waterways e. V. various years. WESKA (Western European Shipping and Harbor Calendar), Binnenschifffahrts-Verlag, Duisburg-Ruhrort.
  • Folke Stender (Red.): Sports boat tickets inland 1 . Nautical Publication Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-926376-10-4 .
  • W. Ciesla, H. Czesienski, W. Schlomm, K. Senzel, D. Weidner (collective of authors): Shipping maps of the inland waterways of the German Democratic Republic 1: 10,000, Volume 4 . Publisher: Waterway Authority of the GDR, Berlin 1988.
  • Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Desczyk: Berlin bridges: design and jewelry , Lukas Verlag, 2012; ISBN 978-3-86732-099-3 .
  • Friedrich Krause , F. Hedde: The bridge construction of the city of Berlin since 1897 . In: Journal of Construction . Vol. 72, 1922, pp. 13–36 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ) and p. 167–194 ( digitized version) and p. 316–339 ​​( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Heinze, Eckhard Thiemann, Laurenz Demps : Berlin and its bridges. Transpress Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00105-1 , pp. 10-12, 30, 41
  2. ↑ Brief description of Berlin . In: CF Wegener: House and General Address Book of the Royal. Capital and residence city Berlin , 1822, part 1, p. 7 (list of all bridges by name).
  3. ↑ a b Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Desczyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin bridge construction from 1945 to 2000 . Part 2 in road and bridge construction in Berlin 1945 to 2000 . Issue 22 of the "Archive for the History of Roads and Transport", publisher of the Research Association for Roads and Transport, GSV Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-939715-65-8
  4. ↑ Traffic Gazette Document No. B 5276, Vers. 07/97
  5. ↑ Berlin bridges . Senate Department for Building and Housing, 1991.
  6. ^ Stefan Lott: Berlin has 564 bridges. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 2, 2008.
  7. ↑ Andreas Koch: Right ?: Berlin bridges. In: Die Zeit , No. 34/2002
  8. ^ Erik Pischel : Spreeathen - Bridges of Berlin. with pictures
  9. ↑ ÜberBücken: Bridge construction 1990–1999 Bridges from A to Z
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information