Moabit Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 54 ″ E
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| use | Road traffic, pedestrians | |
| Convicted | Kirchstrasse | |
| Crossing of | Spree , Helgoland Ufer, Holsteiner Ufer | |
| place | Berlin-Moabit , Berlin-Tiergarten | |
| construction | three-arched stone bridge | |
| overall length | 70.0 m | |
| width | 19.8 m, of which 11.0 m is roadway | |
| Longest span | 17.88 m | |
| Construction height | 1.16 m | |
| Clear height | 4.39 m | |
| start of building | 1893 | |
| opening | 1894 | |
| planner | Engineer: Karl Bernhard , Architect: Otto Stahn |
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The Moabiter Brücke is a stone bridge over the Spree in Berlin's Mitte district , which connects the Hansaviertel and Moabit districts. The bridge forms the transition between Bartningallee and Kirchstraße and is located 200 meters downstream of the Gerickesteg . Because of the bear sculptures that existed again up until the Second World War and since 1981, it is also known as the Bear Bridge .
history
In the same place there was a wooden bridge from 1821, which the court dentist Pierre Baillif had built as a "private bridge". The money came from shares in a bridge-building joint-stock company that he had founded. After the St. John's Church was built in 1840, this overpass was fitted with a flap and was later taken over by the City of Berlin. The bridge was around 70 meters long and 7.5 meters wide. The 3.8 meter wide carriageway was supported by 14 support yokes . Around 1868 the hatch opening was removed after the superstructure had been raised and ramps had been installed for the access roads. At the same time, the roadway was widened to 5.3 meters and abutments were built on the bank. Until about 1870 the Moabiter Bridge was the only permanent connection between the city center of Berlin and the municipality of Moabit.
As the population continued to grow, the wooden bridge was no longer able to withstand the strain. From 1893 to 1894, the engineer Karl Bernhard and the architect Otto Stahn therefore built a new stone building that strictly adhered to the model of the Luther Bridge - only the bridge width was slightly smaller with eleven meters of roadway and four meters of pavement. The pillars, end faces and parapets were clad with dark gray Rhenish basalt lava from the quarries in Niedermendig near Mayen .
The magistrate then had four bronze bears by the artists Karl Begas , Johannes Boese , Johannes Götz and Carl Piper set up, but they were melted down in the Second World War and thus lost. It was not until 1981 that a cast-iron group of bears owned by Günter Anlauf, which cost 233,000 marks, replaced the loss.
A blast in 1945 completely destroyed the southern vault, except for a small part of the sidewalk. An emergency bridge built over the destroyed part in 1946 enabled the laying of a rubble railway line for clearing the ruins of the houses. The repair of the vault with bricks in the years 1948 to 1950 as well as constant restorations were able to restore or maintain the historical appearance of the Moabiter Bridge - except for the bear casts - from 1894.
In January 2009, an icebreaker crashed into a pillar of the Moabiter Bridge due to machine damage. The wheelhouse was torn down, but people were not harmed. Specialists could not find any damage to the bridge either.
Adjacent
In the 19th century there was the shipbuilder Jahnke at the Moabiter Bridge, who made excursion gondolas . These flat vehicles offered space for 20 to 30 people, were provided with a wooden roof and brought day trippers across different sections of the Spree. This excursion traffic is reported and rumored several times under the name "Moabiter Gondelfahrt", which was discontinued in 1897.
A few steps from the Moabiter Bridge are the Berlin Administrative Court , the “Spreebogen” (former seat of the Federal Ministry of the Interior ) and the Bellevue S-Bahn station .
The senior meeting place "Sunflower Meeting Point" has been organizing lectures on current topics since 2002 under the motto "Moabiter Bridge".
The former Prussian Seehandlungs-Sozietät , which August Borsig later transformed into an iron foundry and mechanical engineering company , was located on the site of what will later be Kirchstrasse (house number 6) . Borsig also had a park created directly on the bridge.
literature
- Karl Bernhard: The new construction of the Moabiter Bridge in Berlin . In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 16. Vol., 1896, No. 2, pp. 13-15 ( online ), No. 3, pp. 23-25 ( online ).
- Felix Hasselberg: The creation of the Moabiter Bridge . In: Journal of the Association for the History of Berlin . Vol. 58, 1941, pp. 38-39 ( PDF, 7.6 MB ).
- G. Sommer: Stone bridges in Germany . Verl. Bau und Technik, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0240-9 .
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and its bridges . Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , p. 120.
- Jürgen Tomisch: Monuments in Berlin. Mitte district. Districts Moabit, Hansaviertel and Tiergarten. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-035-6 , p. 201.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Moabit Bridge. In: Structurae
- The bridges of Moabit on "moabit online"
- old postcard with Moabiter Bridge and "Criminal Court"
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Seal" saves "Sea Otters". In: Berliner Zeitung , January 12, 2009
- ^ Arne Hengsbach: Moabiter gondola ride . Association for the history of Berlin . In: Mitteilungen , 1/1987; Retrieved April 19, 2013
- ^ Lecture series "Moabiter Brücke" freiberger-stiftung.de
- ↑ Diether Ontrup: Past and Forgotten? Borsig in Moabit - industry and garden culture . Association for the history of Berlin . In: Mitteilungen , 4/2002; Retrieved April 19, 2013