Mörsch Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 41 ″ E
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Tegeler Weg | |
| Crossing of | Westhafenkanal , Goerdelerdamm | |
| place | District Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf | |
| construction | Tied arch bridge with three parallel arches | |
| overall length | 66.6 m (tied arch bridge) | |
| width | 40.7 m | |
| Longest span | 64.0 m (tied arch bridge) | |
| height | 12.40 m | |
| Clear height | 5.39 m (tied arch bridge) | |
| building-costs | 10 million euros | |
| start of building | 2002 | |
| completion | 2006 | |
| opening | June 7, 2006 | |
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The Mörschbrücke is a road bridge in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . A part of the bridge crosses the Westhafenkanal immediately before it flows into the Spree . A second component leads over the north-facing Uferstrasse, which is an extension of the Goerdelerdamm. The Tegeler Weg leads over the bridge . The Jakob-Kaiser-Platz , the Berlin-Jungfernheide train station and the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens are all nearby . The bridge is named after the civil engineer Emil Mörsch , a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction.
First canal bridge
The construction of a bridge at the point where the Mörsch Bridge is today began in 1938. The project was called Jungfernbrücke . With the outbreak of the Second World War , construction ceased. At this point in time the foundations, walls and abutments were in place. Work started again in 1952 and the bridge was opened in October 1953. Because the planned name already belonged to another Berlin Spree bridge, the new structure was now called Mörschbrücke . A partial renovation took place in 1976/77.
New building
- planning
As part of project 17 of the German Unity Transport Projects , the Westhafen Canal was expanded for waterway class Vb. Hence larger should containerships of Europe class the passage are possible. Neither the clearance height nor the clearance width of the old bridge met this standard - which is why the demolition and new construction of the bridge section above the canal was necessary. The costs were estimated at around 10 million euros. The building project was carried out by the Berlin Waterways Construction Office , the construction management was the responsibility of the Senate Department for Urban Development, and the contractor was ARGE Hochtief / Niesky.
- Provisional line bridge
A provisional cable bridge had to be erected before the actual construction work began. This served to guide the gas, water, electricity and telephone lines over the canal during the construction work. Strabag AG carried out the construction of this temporary bridge .
- Traffic management during construction
So that the traffic could largely pass the bridge during construction, a makeshift structure was built for the first construction phase on the western half of the old bridge. After one year of construction began on 18 January 2005 shunting the first pre-assembled bridge half. Then the remaining half of the old bridge was demolished and the second part of the new bridge was installed. During this second construction phase, traffic was directed over the already existing new half of the bridge.
- completion
The opening of the new Mörsch Bridge took place on June 7, 2006. It was inaugurated by District Mayor Monika Thiemen , Berlin Senator for Urban Development Ingeborg Junge-Reyer and the President of the Waterways and Shipping Directorate East , Achim Pohlmann. The new Mörsch Bridge is a tied arch bridge which, unlike the statically optimal standard solution with two arches, has three parallel arches due to its large width. It has three lanes in both directions, separated by a median, a bicycle and a sidewalk.
- Further development
On April 18, 2018, there was an arson attack on supply lines under the bridge, which also damaged parts of the bridge and the roadway.
Web links
- Lexicon Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Mörsch Bridge. In: Structurae
- Pictures from the construction of the bridge
References
- ↑ Information from the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ a b Lexicon Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, March 14, 2003
- ↑ Press release of June 2, 2006
- ↑ Ulrike Kuhlmann, Annette Detzel: tied arch bridges. In: Handbuch Brücken, Gerhard Mehlhorn (Ed.). P. 340, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-29659-1
- ↑ Arson attack on the Mörsch Bridge. The police chief in Berlin, April 19, 2018, accessed on August 24, 2020 .