Möller Bridge (Calvörde)
The Möllerbrücke is a road bridge that spans the Ohre near the Kämkerhorst residential area in Saxony-Anhalt . The name Möller Bridge comes from its construction as a suspension belt girder bridge based on the "Möller System". As one of the last surviving bridges of this type of construction in Saxony-Anhalt, it is a listed building and is an important document on the history of the development of structural engineering.
location
In the area of the bridge, the Ohre forms the border between the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel in the north and the Börde district in the south. The northern half of the bridge is in the Mieste district of the town of Gardelegen (Altmarkkreis Salzwedel), the southern half is in the Mannhausen district of the Calvörde municipality (Börde district).
Construction and history
The bridge was built in 1906 by the Braunschweig construction company Drenckhahn & Sudhop in the construction method of the suspension belt girders developed by the civil engineer Max Möller in 1894, also known as Möller girders . The carriageway slab is supported by concrete ribs arched downwards, which are reinforced on the underside with an iron tie , thus combining the good compressive strength of concrete with the tensile strength of iron . This construction method can be understood as a pre-form of reinforced concrete construction , in which the iron was not yet completely inside the concrete body as reinforcement , but on its outside, which is subject to tension.
literature
- Mathias Köhler: Ohrekreis, Volume I, Altkreis Haldensleben. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , List of Monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Volume 10.1.) Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-011-9 , page 158.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 11.7 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 20.9 ″ E