Mundsburg Bridge
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 56 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 11 ″ E
| Mundsburg Bridge | ||
|---|---|---|
 |
||
| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Mundsburg dam | |
| Crossing of | Mundsburg Canal | |
| place | Hamburg-Uhlenhorst | |
| construction | Vault bridge | |
| width | 55 m | |
| Number of openings | 1 | |
| completion | 1870 | |
| location | ||
|
||
The Mundsburger Brücke is a road bridge that connects the Hamburg districts of Hohenfelde and Uhlenhorst . With a width of 55 meters, it is the widest road bridge in Hamburg. With the bridge built in 1870, the Mundsburger Damm, from which the Papenhuder Strasse branches off precisely at this point, crosses the Mundsburger Canal .
construction
It is not known who was responsible for the construction. The city civil engineer and Johann Hermann Maack , who was responsible for building bridges in Hamburg as the head of the bridge office , who died in 1868, had probably dealt with the planning before his death. Franz Andreas Meyer , who as chief engineer was responsible for “the civil engineering of the city and the area, including the associated hydraulic engineering and bridge construction”, did not take office until 1872. The Mundsburg Bridge is therefore often attributed to his predecessor Christian Wilhelm Plath (1820–1894).
Bridge or tunnel?
The Mundsburg Bridge is a vaulted bridge made of reinforced concrete and brickwork. On the abutments of the Mundsburg Bridge, nautical ornaments remind us that seafaring and trade shaped Hamburg. The Mundsburg Bridge is 15 meters wide in order to qualify as a tunnel , which is why it was already referred to as the "Great Bridge" during construction. Until 1975 there was a pier for Alster steamers on the Hohenfeld side . On the opposite side there is a café in the casemates at the end of the bridge arch.
monument
The Mundsburger Brücke is registered as a cultural monument with the number 21694 by the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media .
literature
- Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg bridges . Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86633-007-8 .
- Sven Bardua: Hamburg as a bridge metropolis. Architecture technology history until 1945, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich and Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7
