Lobkowitz Bridge

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The Lobkowitz Bridge in Vienna

The Lobkowitz Bridge is a bridge over the Wien River and connects the two Viennese districts of Meidling and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

history

The Lobkowitz Bridge, which has been widened to create a traffic structure, is closed upstream by the Factory Bridge

At the site of today's Lobkowitz Bridge, a ford was once used to cross the Wien River. At the beginning of the 19th century a bridge and a narrow footbridge already existed here. In 1837 an iron bridge was built, which was inaugurated by Prince August Longin von Lobkowitz and named after him. In the course of regulating the Vienna River, this bridge was demolished in 1898 and replaced by a new one.

The new Lobkowitz Bridge was about 70 meters wide and housed a reception building for the Vienna light rail line, which was built at the same time . As the population the new bridge usually only Meidlinger bridge called the light rail station was held as planned Lobkowitzbrücke now after the nearby Meidlinger main street Meidling main street called. But also this station name was popularly changed to Meidlinger Hauptstrasse for the sake of simplicity .

In the 1960s, the flow of traffic in this area was redesigned, which led to the demolition of the Otto Wagner station - accompanied by protests . In 1969 the Lobkowitz Bridge was extended by an approximately 120-meter-wide vault, which is completed upstream by the factory bridge, which was also newly built in 1969. The continuous vaulting in this section has been 195 meters since then. In 1980, as part of the conversion of Wientallinie the rail on the subway line U4 the meidling hauptstraße built, as well as close the mall U4 Park shop and in the cellar disco U4 . The bridge is used by road traffic and pedestrians and is part of the Vienna cycle path network.

literature

  • Ludwig Varga: The Lobkowitz Bridge in: Crossings in Meidling - Part 2. Vienna River Bridges. Sheets of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2006, issue 66, pp. 25–38.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 2 "  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 42"  E