Parrot Bridge

Parrot Bridge, today's design

The Parrot Bridge with the Bismarck Column , the place where the books were later burned in Hanover , in the background the Bismarck School
Postcard number 558 from Ernst Walther, around 1912; from the collection of Rainer Hoffschildt

The parrot bridge in Hanover is a 1990 renovated prestressed concrete - bridge . It leads from the end of Seufzerallee over the Leine to Maschsee .

history

The bridge was first built in 1910 as the "Elisabeth Bridge" in wood construction and initially created a connection between the Schnellen Graben and the Maschwiesen. In the vernacular , however, the originally brightly painted wooden bridge was jokingly referred to as the "parrot bridge". When the bridge was rebuilt in 1953 from prestressed concrete, the name was officially adopted.

The bridge was last renewed in 1990.

literature

• H. Klotzke: The largest island of Hanover , 2006, p. 13.
• Helmut Knocke : Parrot Bridge. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 494.

Web links

Commons : Parrot Bridge (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke: Parrot Bridge. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 21.5 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 18.9"  E