Neckarsteg (Stuttgart)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 7 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 34"  E

Neckarsteg
Neckarsteg
The Neckarsteg with Rosenstein Castle in the background
use footbridge
Crossing of Neckar
place Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
closure June 2016
location
Neckarsteg (Stuttgart) (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Neckarsteg (Stuttgart)

The Neckarsteg was a pedestrian bridge over the Neckar in the Stuttgart district of Bad Cannstatt .

The structure was 158 m long and weighed 210 t. It cost around 1.9 million DM, around 400 cubic meters of wood were processed. When it opened, the footbridge was considered the ninth longest covered wooden bridge in the world.

construction

Neckarsteg

The bridge was built for the 1977 Federal Garden Show . It should connect Bad Cannstatt with the Rosenstein Park. A steel bridge was to be built at this point. Instead, a wooden structure was chosen for reasons of cost.

Construction began in the summer of 1976. One month before the opening, a crane boom gave way, so that part of the construction ended up in the water. Despite the accident, the bridge was opened in time for the opening of the Federal Garden Show on April 29, 1977. The plans for the bridge came from Dieter Sengler , former professor at the Stuttgart University of Technology for timber construction, and Julius Natterer .

demolition

The bridge had to give way to a new Neckar bridge as part of the Stuttgart 21 project . This serves both rail traffic and pedestrians and cyclists to cross the Neckar. The demolition of the footbridge began at the beginning of June 2016. On July 14, 2016, a 72-meter-long section of the footbridge was excavated, the second, a good 60-meter-long section, was dismantled at the end of November 2016.

Pedestrians have to take detours between the demolition of the footbridge and the release of the new Neckar bridge. The costs of the demolition are included in the 35 million euros construction costs for the new Neckar bridge. According to the rail project, there have been various requests to continue using the wooden structure in some form. According to the railway project, this does not work for reasons of waste legislation.

In addition, consideration is being given to converting the neighboring railway bridge into a connecting route for pedestrians and cyclists.

If the footbridge had been preserved, extensive renovation would have been necessary in the medium term.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uli Nagel: 60 meter crane dismantles wooden walkway . In: Esslinger Zeitung . March 30, 2016, ZDB -ID 125919-2 , p. 3 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b "The disappointment of the wooden walkway inventor" in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of September 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Oliver Schmale: In future it will no longer be possible to take the easy route . In: Südwest Presse . February 13, 2015, ZDB -ID 1360527-6 , p. 18 ( online ).
  4. ↑ "Dieter Sengler receives honorary award" ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Report to bm online @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bm-online.de
  5. ^ Bridge of the month: Neckarsteg Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt .
  6. ↑ "Stuttgart 21: Bahn presents construction process for new Neckar bridge in Bad Cannstatt"
  7. ^ "The wooden footbridge is being torn down" in: Stuttgarter Nachrichten of June 4, 2016
  8. ^ Farewell to the Neckar wooden bridge . stuttgarter-zeitung.de, July 15, 2016
  9. ↑ The Neckarsteg is history . stuttgarter-zeitung.de, November 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b Dirk Herrmann: Wooden bridge is processed into kindling . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 71 , no. 45 , February 24, 2016, p. 15 .
  11. ↑ Dirk Herrmann: The days of the popular Neckar wooden footbridge are numbered . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . tape 71 , no. 45 , February 24, 2016, p. 1 .
Upstream Crossing the Neckar Downstream
Rosenstein Bridge (train) Neckarsteg
 Neckar Bridge (Stuttgart 21)