Lohmühlenbrücke
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 22 ″ E
| Lohmühlenbrücke | ||
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Crossing of | Neukölln shipping canal | |
| place | Berlin-Neukölln | |
| construction | single arch reinforced concrete bridge | |
| start of building | 1920 | |
| opening | 1921 | |
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The Lohmühlenbrücke leads over the Neuköllner Schiffahrtskanal in Berlin and connects the Maybachufer at the corner of Weichselstrasse in Neukölln with Lohmühlenstrasse in Treptow . In the 18th century , there were loaf mills here , in which tree bark (" Lohe ") was processed into bark flour.
Location and history
Immediately north of the Lohmühlenbrücke, the Neukölln shipping canal flows into the Landwehr canal . There, the border runs to the district Kreuzberg of the district Friedrich-Kreuzberg . Because of this location, the location is sometimes referred to as the "triangle".
The connection via the canal was heavily frequented, with the construction of the Berlin Wall across the Lohmühlenbrücke the important connection to Harzer Straße was interrupted. This could only be insufficiently compensated for by the construction of a pedestrian bridge, the Kiehlsteg built in 1962 . This pedestrian crossing was only 60 meters away from the Lohmühlenbrücke.
In 1988, Lohmühlenplatz, east of the bridge, changed formally to West Berlin through a territory swap . This enabled the bridge to be renovated by 1989. A drivable connection was created between the Harzer Straße, which belongs to Neukölln, and the Maybachufer. Against the protest of a citizens' initiative, the Kiehlsteg was torn down in 2014 because it was no longer needed after the opening of the Wall and to save maintenance costs.
Others
- The bridge shows Neukölln's coat of arms on both sides as well as - in Roman numerals - the year of its construction (MCMXX corresponding to 1920).
- In 1987 one of the key scenes of the feature film Der Himmel über Berlin by Wim Wenders was filmed on this bridge .
- Along the Landwehr Canal in the direction of the Spree there are a total of 45 cherry trees that were part of a large fundraising campaign by a Japanese television station. As a joy at the end of the German division, around one million euros were collected under the title Sakura-Campaign from 1990, with which over 9,000 trees were planted in selected, symbolic locations.
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View from Maybachufer over the canal estuary, 1988
Wall at the Lohmühlenbrücke, view from the Kiehlufer
View from Lohmühlenbrücke to Harzer Straße, 1987
Lohmühlenbrücke 1988, view from Kiehlsteg
Kiehlsteg the day before the demolition, in the background the Lohmühlenbrücke
Web links
- Flyer for the tree planting campaign Sakura Campaign. (PDF; 9.4 MB) Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment; Retrieved June 2, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ela Dobrinkat: The charm of a changing district . In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 21, 2009; Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Program of the Neukölln art festival “48 hours Neukölln” ( memento of the original from March 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Course of the Wall at the Lohmühlenbrücke Website of the VR project "Virtual Wall / ReConstructing the Wall"; Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Just past the citizen . Tagesspiegel, March 19, 2014; accessed on March 20, 2014
- ↑ Where, please, was the wall? ( Memento from February 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.de; Retrieved June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Everything in flux: From industry to high technology . In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 16, 2011. Accessed June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel , March 15, 2014, p. 18. - Image of the demolition work on flickr.com. - Report on rbb -aktuell on March 24, 2014
- ^ City trees: Sakura Campaign. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment; Retrieved June 2, 2012.
