Schloßbrücke (Berlin-Charlottenburg)
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 19 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E
| Castle Bridge | ||
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Mierendorffstrasse - Luisenplatz | |
| Crossing of | Spree | |
| place | Berlin-Charlottenburg | |
| construction | Steel arch bridge | |
| overall length | 58.0 m | |
| width | 27.5 m | |
| Longest span | approx. 50 m | |
| Clear height | 4.7 m | |
| start of building | 1925 | |
| completion | 1927 | |
| opening | 1928 | |
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The Schloßbrücke in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg is a steel arch bridge over the Spree . The current construction is a building from the years 1926 to 1928, after the first traffic route across the river was built at the time of the construction of Charlottenburg Palace at the beginning of the 18th century. The bridge is a listed building .
history
The palace, which was built for the elector and king's wife Charlotte near Lietzow at the time , was initially only accessible from the city center of Berlin by ferry across the Spree. In 1709 a wooden bridge was built over more than 18 yokes over the river, which runs in an arch here . Soon this construction had to be converted for traffic purposes and had flaps in the middle area for the ship passages. This bridge was known under the name Berlinische Brücke . At the beginning of the 19th century, it was replaced by a reinforced, wooden yoke bridge, the design of which was based on the model of the palace bridge planned by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the city center of Berlin. “Charlottenburger Schloßbrücke, a pile bridge with drawbars, leads from Luisenplatz over the Spree to Moabit and Jungfernheide .” (1830) When Berlin became the capital of the Reich in 1871, Lietzow and the palace also benefited from the relocation of factories and population growth. The Berlinische Brücke was already in need of repair and, with its dimensions and resilience, could no longer do justice to the economic boom. Around 1875, the Berlin architect and town planner Ludwig Ernst Emil Hoffmann (1852–1932) began planning a new massive stone bridge. This could not bridge the Spree in three arches, as originally planned, since shipping had to get along without piers at this point. The new bridge structure, built between 1897 and 1901, had a single arched overhead tied arch structure after the revision . At around 22 meters, it was wider than the previous building and could now also accommodate the rails of the tram. The bridge was 58 m long and was richly decorated with sculptures by Max Dennert . The ornamentation was based on baroque models and consisted of four sandstone obelisks with reliefs of griffins , panthers and coats of arms at each end of the arch, the iron structure was decorated with lattices and filigree superstructure arches. Finally, the new construction was named Schloßbrücke when it was inaugurated in 1901 .
Construction defects, which appeared after 20 years, led to a complete traffic closure of the Charlottenburg Palace Bridge in 1925. Repair work would have cost the city of Berlin, which had just acquired the building, a lot of money. That is why it was dismantled and the steel construction company A. Druckermüller designed and implemented a more permanent replacement structure, which was completed between 1926 and 1928. It is now an unadorned single-arched steel girder bridge. During the Second World War , shortly before the German surrender , the bridge was blown up by Wehrmacht troops and one side sank into the Spree. It was lifted in 1946 and rebuilt between 1946 and 1949.
From the sides of the bridge, stairs and a ramp lead down to the Charlottenburger Ufer. There are moorings for several shipping companies that carry out sightseeing trips on the Spree.
There is a curved arch bridge directly in the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens , which is also called the Palace Bridge . However, this does not bridge the Spree, but instead directs pedestrians through some canals in the park.
literature
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and his bridges , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, pp. 122–124; ISBN 3-89773-073-1
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Castle bridge in the district lexicon ( Memento from February 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Schloßbrücke (Berlin-Charlottenburg). In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ private homepage "Bridges over the Spree"
- ^ JGA Ludwig Helling (ed.): History-statistical-topographical pocket book of Berlin and its immediate surroundings . HAW Logier, Berlin 1830. Online at google.com/books, accessed on January 23, 2015
- ↑ View (watercolor) of the Park-Schloßbrücke
