Powder Tower Bridge

The Powder Tower Bridge is a road bridge in the Hamburg district of Neustadt . It is listed as a cultural monument in the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media's list of monuments . With this bridge, the street of the same name crosses the Herrengrabenfleet .

The Powder Tower Bridge is 15 meters long and eight meters wide. It is named in memory of a powder tower built on this site between 1548 and 1560. This powder tower was demolished in 1819.

The Pulverturmsbrücke was built together with the nearby Schaarsteinwegbrücke in 1903. Their solid iron wall girders rest on stone abutments.

literature

Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg bridges. Their names and what they mean , Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-86633-007-8

Web links

Commons : Pulverturmsbrücke - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg architecture technology history until 1945, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , page 100

53.547876 9.983422Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '52.35 " N , 9 ° 59' 0.32" E

[1] Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg architecture technology history until 1945, Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , page 100