Maximiliansbrücke

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 13 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 29 ″  E

Maximiliansbrücke
Maximiliansbrücke with a view of the Maximilianeum
use	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , individual traffic , public transport
Convicted	Maximilianstrasse
Crossing of	Isar , Auer Mühlbach
place	Munich- Lehel
Entertained by	State capital Munich
construction	Arch bridge
opening	1905
location

The Maximiliansbrücke is an arch bridge over the Isar in Munich .

location

It is located in the Munich district of Lehel and continues along Maximilianstrasse over the Isar to the Maximilianeum .

The western section of the bridge, the Inner Maximiliansbrücke, connects the western bank of the Great Isar with the Prater Island . The eastern section of the bridge, the Outer Maximiliansbrücke, crosses the Kleine Isar and the Auer Mühlbach from the Praterinsel .

history

Outer Maximiliansbrücke in front of the new building in 1904/05

The bridge was built in the years 1857–1863 as an extension of Maximilianstrasse to the Maximilianeum according to plans by Arnold Zenetti . As a saving measure, both parts of the bridge were only 13 m wide, although Maximilianstrasse was 23 m wide. This situation was soon felt to be unsatisfactory because of the increasing traffic. As part of the bridge construction program , the construction company Sager & Woerner had therefore also offered to widen or build a new Maximiliansbrücke. In the years 1903–1905 this was carried out according to a design by the architect Friedrich von Thiersch and the construction plans drawn up by Sager & Woerner. The bridge over the inner Isar was widened, the one over the outer Isar was rebuilt. It was named after Maximilian II . The bridge, which was renovated in 1989, is a listed building .

description

View over the bridge from the Maximilianeum

The Inner Maximiliansbrücke spans a length of 42 m with the three original arches made of brickwork. The arches with clear widths of 7.97 m, 13.88 m and 13.89 m were widened with concrete arches and clad with shell limestone . The outer Maximiliansbrücke has a length of 96 m and consists of two identical three-hinged arches made of shell limestone blocks with a clear width of 45.87 m each. On the arches there are stud walls made of rammed concrete , which are arranged at right angles to the direction of travel , and which support the reinforced concrete deck. The elevation and the parapet of the roadway panel are clad with shell limestone and richly decorated with figures and ornaments. The bridge width of 22 m offers space for trams, motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians to move on both sides.

On June 27, 1904, the joints of one of the arches of the largely completed arches of the Outer Maximiliansbrücke slipped out of their place on the fighters , whereupon the arch lowered by around 30 cm. Due to the shock, the joints of the other arch also followed. With the three-hinged arches, which were just ten years old, it had not yet been recognized that the friction in the joints drops sharply at high pressure and that these are not secured against displacement. The only slightly damaged arches could be pushed back into place with spindles and stored on improved joints.

On the outer Maximiliansbrücke there is a statue of Pallas Athene by the Lower Bavarian sculptor Franz Drexler , unveiled in 1906 , for which Frieda Thiersch , the architect's daughter, was the model.

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  Inner Maximiliansbrücke

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  Outer Maximiliansbrücke

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  Statue of Pallas Athene

See also

• Building sculpture on bridges in Munich

literature

• Kai Lucks: The Munich Isar Bridges in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Munich 1976.
• Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: City of Munich, Construction Department. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 .
• Emil Mörsch: The reconstruction of the Maximiliansbrücke in Munich. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 45/46, Issue 19 of May 13, 1905, p. 236, doi : 10.5169 / seals-25431
• A. Woerner: Sager & Woerner . Munich 1964. (The Isarbrücken p. 102-109)
• C. Hackelsberger : Munich and its Isar bridges. Hugendubel, Munich 1981. (pp. 95-100)

Web links

Commons : Maximiliansbrücke in Munich  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Munich Isarbrücken - Calendar 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the lowering of the vaults of the new Maximiliansbrücke in Munich ... In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 55 of July 9, 1904, p. 352
2. ↑ Advances in building wide, flat massive bridges. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 73 of September 8, 1906, p. 462
3. ^ Emil Mörsch: The reconstruction of the Maximiliansbrücke in Munich. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 45/46, Issue 19 of May 13, 1905, p. 236, doi : 10.5169 / seals-25431