Möckern Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 56 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 49 ″ E
Möckern Bridge | ||
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The Möckernbrücke over the Landwehr Canal , in the background the Möckernbrücke underground station |
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use | Road traffic | |
Convicted | Möckernstrasse | |
Crossing of | Landwehr Canal | |
Subjugated | U-Bahn (elevated railway viaduct) | |
place | Berlin-Kreuzberg | |
construction | old: sandstone, new: reinforced concrete bridge with arch under the roadway | |
overall length | 34.4 m | |
width | approx. 20 m | |
Longest span | 16 m | |
completion | 1899, 1954 new building | |
planner | Friedrich Krause, Ludwig Hoffmann (1899) | |
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The Möckernbrücke in the district Kreuzberg of Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg leading the Möckernstraße between Halleschem banks and Tempelhofer Ufer at kilometer 5.4 on the Landwehr Canal . In turn, it is crossed by the viaduct of the subway, which is designed as an elevated railway .
Surname
The name of the bridge refers to Möckernstrasse , in the course of which the Möckernbrücke lies. In the course of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg near Möckern defeated Napoleon Bonaparte's troops in October 1813 . The name of the bridge took place at the end of the 19th century.
history
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The Möckern Bridge was built in the years 1898–1899 by Friedrich Krause and Ludwig Hoffmann as a single-arched sandstone bridge. It had a span of 16 m and replaced a wooden bascule bridge that had existed since 1848 . As jewelry, she wore a frieze designed by the sculptor Otto Lessing .
The old sandstone bridge was destroyed in the Second World War , and a prestressed concrete bridge took its place in 1954 . It has 4.6 m wide footpaths on both sides, the 10 m wide carriageway has a lane in each direction .
Between 2004 and 2009, the Waterways and Shipping Office commissioned a comprehensive renovation of the canal bank in the area of this and other bridges over the Landwehr Canal in six construction phases over a length of 11 km by installing new sheet piles .
Surroundings
Both the Hochbahnbrücke and the Hallesche-Tor-Brücke very close to this building are listed as historical monuments . Numerous residential apartment buildings in Möckernstrasse are also noteworthy in their Wilhelminian style architecture and are included in the Berlin list of monuments . The Tempelhof-Kreuzberg district court is also a monument complex that is well worth seeing . One of the barrier-free main entrances to the park at Gleisdreieck, which opened on September 2, 2011, is located southwest of the bridge .