Parkweg Bridge

Parkweg Bridge
	Parkwegbrücke in the foreground, ; behind the railway bridges
use	pedestrian
Crossing of	Spree
place	Berlin-Alt-Treptow ; Berlin-Friedrichshain
construction	The railway bridge and the adjacent pedestrian bridge are one structural unit. ; Steel bridge with an overhead arch
overall length	86.90 m
width	13.10 m (total width) ; thereof 2.00 m pedestrian / cyclist bridge
Longest span	57.0 m
start of building	around 1902
	location

52.495377777778 13.464108333333Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 43 " N , 13 ° 27 ′ 51" E

The Parkwegbrücke is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge in Berlin located on the railway bridge upstream next to the Elsenbrücke . On the east side it runs as a cantilever arm over the Spree , its surface is asphalt . The bridge enables access to Treptower Park and the landing stage of the Stern and Kreisschiffahrtsgesellschaft Berlin as well as to the Stralau peninsula .

History and location

The first railway lines to and from Berlin were built in the mid-19th century. To cross the Spree, a steel bridge with two parallel arches above was therefore completed between Alt-Treptow and Stralau in the municipality of Boxhagen-Rummelsburg for the Ringbahn . At the beginning of the 20th century, a narrow footbridge running parallel to the tracks was built for pedestrians. In order to distinguish it from the railway structure and because it connected the Parkweg on Stralau, which was laid out in 1902, with the large recreational area of Treptower Park , it was given the name Parkwegbrücke. The first road bridge, which was erected in 1951 a few meters further east of the railway bridge on numerous wooden piles as a makeshift structure and was officially called Stralauer Brücke , was closed to pedestrians. After the completion of the Elsen Bridge in 1968 it had become obsolete and was demolished in 1970. The Parkweg- / Eisenbahnbrücke is about 12 m upstream from a steel arch bridge built later for the Ringbahn (called Ringbahnbrücke Oberspree ) and about 61 m upstream from the Elsenbrücke. Because the old truss bridge was completely renewed in the 1990s, there has also been a new Parkweg bridge at its side since then .

Accidents in connection with the Parkweg Bridge

In 1996, a bridge worker at the Parkweg Bridge was swept away by a falling scaffold and seriously injured. In April 2007 the police found a 19-year-old man with severe head injuries on the Parkweg Bridge, who later died in the hospital, following information from a walker. In January 2015, two people fell from the Parkweg Bridge into the Spree.

Buildings with the same name in Berlin

In the Britzer Garten in Berlin-Neukölln there are eight bridges, which are also called Parkwegbrücke, but are each marked with an addition, for example the Parkwegbrücke at the grotto or the Parkwegbrücke / Bonner Steg, a simple wooden beam construction.