Silesian Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 55 ″ E
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Crossing of | Landwehr Canal | |
| place | Berlin-Kreuzberg | |
| construction | Iron girder bridge with a steel bridge panel on top | |
| overall length | 25 m | |
| width | 25 m | |
| Longest span | 22 m | |
| Clear height | 3.47 | |
| start of building | 1894 | |
| completion | 1896 | |
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The listed Schlesische Brücke leads at the Oberschleuse at kilometer 10.2 over the Landwehr Canal to Lohmühleninsel . Together with the neighboring Upper Freiarchen Bridge , it connects the districts of Berlin-Kreuzberg and Berlin-Alt-Treptow in the street Schlesische Straße / Vor dem Schlesisches Tor / Puschkinallee . The Schlesische Brücke is the first road bridge at the beginning of the artificial waterway in the Osthafen area .
history
Under the name Mahlbrücke there was a first bridge over the former Landwehr-Schaf-Graben at the former Schlesisches Tor at the latest in 1705. In 1852 a wooden bascule bridge was built because the ditch was used for rafting wood. After the Landwehr Canal had been secured and completed and the Spree regulated, the Berlin administration had a new bridge planned for the road to Silesia at this point as well . Otto Stahn and F. Zander designed a sheet metal girder construction as a girder bridge with decorated cast iron railings, which could be built from 1894 and inaugurated in 1896. A terrestrial company had several residential rental houses built in the area at the same time.
At the end of the Second World War , this bridge was also damaged and was not repaired until 1954. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 led to the closure of the now inoperable canal crossing. However, due to its relatively original preservation, the building was included in the list of architectural monuments and was structurally renovated in 1987 with funds from the Monument Foundation.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Silesian Bridge was one of the first bridges to be reopened to road traffic.
Constructive and decorative
The 25-meter-wide bridge is divided into a 15-meter-wide lane with a separate cycle lane and 5-meter-wide footpaths. The railing on both sides of the bridge is decorated with forged tendril ornaments in historicism , the center piece on the top of the bridge bears the name of the bridge in Gothic script . The load-bearing structure is made up of riveted and parallel sheet metal girders, which are supported in the middle of the canal on a wall pillar and rest on brick abutments on the canal walls. The octagonal bricked-up bridge piers end above the parapet in pointed turrets. The pillars below the bridge and the neighboring bank walls are clad with red natural stone slabs, while the upper parts of the wall are plastered.
In the neighborhood
In the middle of the 19th century, the coppersmith's factory of Carl Justus Heckmann , after whom the Uferstraße was later named, extended in the complex Schlesische Straße, Heckmannufer and Taborstraße . This section of the bank with preserved green strips is, like other bank sections of the Landwehr Canal, in the Berlin list of monuments.
Three historic commercial yards in Schlesische Strasse number 26, also called Industriehaus Schlesische Brücke - Carl Lindström's factory building from 1911 - number 28 and number 29 are not far from the bridge in the direction of the city center. Also worth seeing is the Tabor Church behind the Heckmannufer in Taborstrasse. Another striking feature is the petrol station near the bridge, which was built here by Paul Schröder and Max Pohl in 1928–1929 together with a large garage and has been home to a café since 1999.
Upstream the chamber joins the upper lock. The lock was operated by a lock keeper who still has a small house right next to the lock. The larger two-story red brick building next to the bridge (in front of the Silesian Gate 3 ) was the lifting point for the Royal Hydraulic Engineering Inspectorate , where the skippers and travelers on the roads had to pay customs duties.
As on many other structural areas, the bridges serve the graffiti sprayers as a mostly secret field of activity. The district offices occasionally provide tax money for cleaning purposes, as an example from 2005 shows with an amount of around 500 euros for the Schlesische Brücke.
A border breakthrough in June 1962 with the GDR passenger ship "Friedrich Wolf", which started from the Osthafen and reached the Kreuzberg side in the Landwehr Canal area despite being shot at, was spectacular.
The Silesian Bridge in Art
The artist Carla Fioravanti , who lives and works in Berlin , depicted numerous bridges in Berlin in her works until 2006, including a 40 × 30 cm etching Schlesische Brücke , one of which was sold in 2008.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Silesian Bridge. In: Structurae
- Where Kreuzberg once ended . Video on youtube.com about the Silesian and Obere Freiarchenbrücke (9:58 minutes)
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to information from the Berlin Waterways Authority
- ↑ Berlin List of Historic Buildings: Schlesische Brücke
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↑ a b Silesian Bridge . In: Bezirkslexikon des Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
(The architects named here are Hermann Rohde and E. Saminski , but it is more likely that they refer to the employees of the municipal building administration, Stadtbauinspektor Otto Rohde and government master builder Paul Saminski .) - ↑ Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Peter Horst Metzing: Berlin and its bridges. Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , p. 148.
- ↑ Overview plan of the "Terraingesellschaft an der Schlesische Brücke" . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, Appendix, p. 56.
- ↑ Heckmannufer. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ Complex of the listed banks of the LWK
- ↑ former Industriehof Lindstroem (PDF; 1.60 MB) accessed January 8, 2010
- ↑ Commercial yard, 1910–1913 by Wilhelm Peters and Alfred Grenander
- ↑ Commercial yard, 1900–1903 by Ziegra
- ↑ Apartment building with commercial area, 1907–1908 by Boswau & Knauer
- ↑ Architectural monument of the Evangelical Tabor Church, 1903–1905 by Ernst Schwartzkopff
- ↑ Lecture on Monument Day 2004 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2005 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. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Senate Department for Urban Development, accessed on January 8, 2010
- ^ History of the canal and photos WSA, accessed January 8, 2010.
- ↑ Inquiry to the House of Representatives (PDF; 241 kB) p. 5, accessed January 8, 2010.
- ↑ In the hail of bullets to Kreuzberg . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 9, 2006; with a description of an ARD documentation on this escape.
- ↑ Post sale of an art auction :. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) p. 15, No. 2008-060, accessed January 8, 2010.
