Museum bridge

Museum bridge
	Museum bridge from the east side
Subjugated	Pegnitz
place	Nuremberg
	location

49.452704 11.077939Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 10 ″ N , 11 ° 4 ′ 41 ″ E

The Museum Bridge is a sandstone - arch bridge , in Nuremberg , the Pegnitz spans. The road bridge is located at the beginning of Königstraße and connects the Nuremberg districts of St. Sebald and St. Lorenz . It is located between the main market and Lorenzer Platz .

history

Museum bridge around 1700

Museum Bridge 1914

The oldest bridge in Nuremberg over the Pegnitz is believed to be at the site of today's museum bridge. A wooden bridge is documented for the 13th century. Since the building connected the Franciscan monastery with the city, it was called the Barfüßerbrücke. However, floods repeatedly destroyed the bridge at this location in the following centuries. In 1484 a new building followed with stone substructures and a wooden superstructure.

In 1590 the structure was again badly damaged by floods. Due to the ongoing maintenance work, the city decided in 1699 to replace the construction with a completely massive bridge. In 1700 the bridge was built with two stone arch openings and named after King Joseph I as Joseph's or King's Bridge. The Pegnitz crossing was adorned by two baroque pulpit structures with wrought iron bars that were placed on the river pillar. The western structure is adorned with the coats of arms of the six former members of the city government.

In the 19th century, the name was changed to Museum Bridge, as the "Museum" society, a social and reading society, owned a meeting house on the site of the former Barfüßerkirche.

During the Second World War , the museum bridge was damaged by bombs. In 1954 the old town was demolished and rebuilt as part of the flood protection measures. It was rebuilt with the appearance of 1700, but with double the width and three openings. The construction costs amounted to 500,000 DM.

Building

The approximately 55-meter-long arch bridge crosses the Pegnitz at an angle of about 80 degrees and has three circular segment arc , in fighter 0.8 meters thick, with internal diameters of 10.50 m, 13.80 meters and 13.36 meters on. The construction has been made of reinforced concrete since 1954 , the visible surfaces are clad with sandstone . The 19.8 meter wide road bridge is bounded on both sides by massive 0.9 meter high and 0.4 meter wide sandstone parapets on which stone spheres made of quartzite with a diameter of 0.45 meters are arranged.

The width of the bridge results from the fact that it was part of a new north-south traffic axis. The wide street, which did not exist before the war and in which a tram was planned, leads from the Maxtor via the fruit market, the museum bridge and the Lorenz Church to the main station. The space for this was created by no longer rebuilding the buildings that had been destroyed in the war, or by rebuilding them with a withdrawn building line. Today, like all the surrounding streets, the bridge is a pedestrian zone.

Flood tunnel

View from the west of the Fleischbrücke, on the right the outlet of the flood tunnel coming from the museum bridge

A special feature of today's museum bridge is that only two of the three arches are visible from the west. The third, southern, arch is the beginning of a tunnel through which some of the water is drained.

Before the tunnel was built, flooding caused a backwater in front of the Fleischbrücke as the narrowest part of the river bed. The floods of 1909 therefore hit the adjoining areas of the old town hardest. After the Second World War, the complete destruction of the buildings on the left bank of the Pegnitz made it possible to widen the river bed. Initial plans included the demolition of the medieval meat bridge, which had remained undamaged during the war. In order to avoid this, the then implemented plan was developed in 1951 to bypass the meat bridge with a tunnel.

The tunnel built together with the new museum bridge is 140 meters long and ten meters wide. It increases the discharge to 430 cubic meters per second, forty times the average amount of water. It leads under the houses later built above it and the street An der Fleischbrücke to an outlet structure under the property at Kaiserstraße 14 to 18.

literature

City of Nuremberg, Main Office for Civil Engineering : Pegnitz Bridge Nuremberg (Museum Bridge). In: Stone bridges in Germany. Beton-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0240-9 , pp. 168-170.

Web links

Commons : Museumsbrücke (Nuremberg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Nuremberg information: The Museum Bridge in Nuremberg
^ History on the website of the Society Museum
↑ Tourist information on bridges in Nuremberg at Nürnberg.de. Retrieved February 21, 2014 .
↑ Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: The lower Königsstraße as a new traffic axis , in Michael Diefenbacher and Matthias Henkel: Reconstruction in Nuremberg . Verlag Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-925002-89-2 , page 135 ff.
↑ Maximilian Rosner: The redesign of the Pegnitzufer , in Michael Diefenbacher and Matthias Henkel: Reconstruction in Nuremberg . Verlag Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-925002-89-2 , page 151 ff.

[1] Nuremberg information: The Museum Bridge in Nuremberg

[2] History on the website of the Society Museum

[3] Tourist information on bridges in Nuremberg at Nürnberg.de. Retrieved February 21, 2014 .

[4] Ruth Bach-Damaskinos: The lower Königsstraße as a new traffic axis , in Michael Diefenbacher and Matthias Henkel: Reconstruction in Nuremberg . Verlag Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-925002-89-2 , page 135 ff.

[5] Maximilian Rosner: The redesign of the Pegnitzufer , in Michael Diefenbacher and Matthias Henkel: Reconstruction in Nuremberg . Verlag Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-925002-89-2 , page 151 ff.