Schwanenburg Bridge

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Schwanenburg Bridge

The Schwanenburg bridge in Hannover , temporarily also simply leash bridge called crosses during the West quick way the leash . The traffic route, which is mostly used by automobiles , was built in the 1950s and connects the Hanoverian districts of Nordstadt , Linden-Nord and Limmer .

History and description

Limmer bridge and ferry traffic

On the “return from Kronsberg ”, King George V and Queen Marie sat in an open carriage over the Limmer Bridge near the local windmill at Limmer and Herrenhausen ; Oil painting by Eduard Frederich , 1853, Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum

In place of the Schwanenburg Bridge there was an older bridge structure: A segment of the Limmer Bridge , built around 1655, was to be opened as a drawbridge to allow ships to pass. The collapse of the decrepit bridge on July 4, 1895 claimed a fatality. As a bridge replacement, a ferry was used to cross over to Schwanenburg from 1895 in the late founding period of the German Empire . In the middle of the First World War , the "Engineer Schenk" maintained the ferry service in 1915, which was not stopped until 1925.

The Leinebrücke near the Fosse and the Limmer windmill passed during the time of the Kingdom of Hanover, for example, George V of Hanover and Queen Marie on excursions from Herrenhausen ; an oil painting by Eduard Frederich from 1853, preserved in the Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum , illustrated such a scene under the title "Return from Kronsberg ".

Schwanenburg Bridge

The Schwanenburg Bridge , which was built in the post-war period from 1956 to 1957, is partly built as a surface foundation in sheet pile walls in layers of gravel and silt of the lower terrace of the Late Pleistocene . In the same gravel as well as on chalk - clay - marl , the bridge is partly based on reinforced concrete slabs .

Side view of the bridge

At the beginning of the 21st century, the bridge, as part of the West Schnellweg, had become a hotspot for accidents in the Lower Saxony state capital. In 2010 alone, 14 people were injured in road traffic in 60 accidents, according to accident statistics. The Hanover Police Department therefore recommended that the bridge be expanded with an additional lateral threading strip between Limmerstrasse and the Bremer Damm, which runs further north . The estimated costs of half a million euros for a construction period of more than six weeks were initially postponed indefinitely by the Lower Saxony state authority for road construction, as the planned construction measure would also have to change the so-called " drainage direction ": instead of left and right as before rainwater running off to the right would then have to be channeled into the middle of the bridge structure using thicker asphalt ; but the calculations and analyzes for a changed statics of the old concrete structure were not yet completed in spring 2011.

Web links

Commons : Schwanenburgbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Possibly by mistake, the construction of the Schwanenburg Bridge also suggested that the ferry service of the Stöcken-Letter ferry would cease ; Compare Fehre Stöcken-Letter , in Günter Gebhardt: Military, Transport and Economy in the Middle of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover 1692 - 1866 (= studies on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 1), Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3 -8382-0184-9 , p. 134; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Curt Dietz , Wilhelm Hollstein: Hanover. Explanations of the geological map of Lower Saxony 1:25 000, sheet Hanover No. 3624 (= geological map of Lower Saxony ), ed. from the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Research, Lower Saxony: State Office for Soil Research, (1959), p. 124; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b Tobias Morchner: From the city / accident focus / state authority stops building bridges in Hanover , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 20, 2011, last accessed on June 10, 2018
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Schwanenburgbrücke and Schwanenburgkreisel , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 224
  4. ^ A b Günter Gebhardt: Military affairs, transport and economy in the middle of the electorate and kingdom of Hanover 1692 - 1866 (= studies on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 1), Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8382-0184 -9 , p. 134; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Horst Bohne: Hanover and Linden as old (and new) port cities (Part 1) , www.lebensraum-linden.de, accessed June 30, 2018
  6. ↑ Bernhard Dörries , Helmut Plath (ed.): Alt-Hannover 1500–1900 / The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900. fourth, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag Hannover, 1977, ISBN 3-87223-024-7 , pp. 121, 138f. 141

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.5 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 49.7"  E