Swan Gate Bridge

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Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 11 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 28"  E

Swan Gate Bridge
Swan Gate Bridge
seen from the Steiger Schwanentor
use Tram and tram bridge
Crossing of Inner Harbor
place Duisburg
construction Lift bridge
width 22 meters
Longest span 18 meters
Construction height 20 metres
Clear height 5.50 meters
opening 1950
planner Hans-Siegfried Persch
location
Schwanentorbrücke (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Swan Gate Bridge
Schwanenstrasse with the two eastern towers, behind the guard's house
Historic photo from 1904

The Schwanentorbrücke is one of three lift bridges in Duisburg . It crosses the inner harbor and thus connects the city center with Kaßlerfeld and Ruhrort. It is used by pedestrians, cyclists, automobiles and the tram. The clearance height at mean normal water level and without lifting the platform is 5.50 meters.

The bridge platform in the middle of the four square towers can be raised about ten meters if necessary. Ropes and counterweights are in the towers. These are clad with bricks, have window slots arranged in pairs and a glazed upper floor. They are closed at the top by gas lanterns. A guard's house is built into one of the towers, which controls the lifting of the Swan Gate Bridge as well as that of the Buckel Bridge .

history

In the Middle Ages, the swan gate was part of the city fortifications on the dead arm of the Rhine, which was still passing here . There was probably a ferry connection. After the connection to the Rhine was revived - through the construction of the Ruhr Canal - a wooden drawbridge was first built in 1841, which was renewed and expanded several times. After the inner harbor was expanded, an electrically operated bascule bridge (see historical picture) was built in 1904, which, however, was destroyed by an air raid towards the end of the Second World War.

Today's lift bridge is a construction by the architect Hans-Siegfried Persch, which was created in 1950. The client was the city of Duisburg. The span is 18 meters, the roadway width 22 meters, the towers are 20 meters high. On December 8, 1986, the bridge was placed under a preservation order.

Since April 9, 2018, the bridge has been renovated in two construction phases. The masonry of the towers will be removed, the inner steel structure will be repaired and then the masonry will be restored. The windows of the towers will be removed and put back after the restoration. First the two western towers will be renovated for nine months, then the eastern two over the next nine months.

location

To the west is the Marientor , which is both a bridge, a sluice and a flood barrier to the outer harbor and thus to the Rhine. To the east is the basin of the inner harbor.

The Steiger Swan Gate is located on Calais-Platz on the southern inner side of the Schwanentorbrücke and can be reached via flat ramps. The tour ships dock there. On the other side, the harbor promenade leads past the Kleiner Kampfmeyer-Speicher (which houses the Duisburg Museum of Culture and City History and the City of Königsberg Museum ) to the Garden of Remembrance and the row of granaries in the rear harbor basin.

On the north side of the bridge to the west is the Kontorhaus , a former granary that is now used as an office and service building. Opposite is the former RWSG storage facility , today part of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives .

The Schwanenstraße leading over the bridge connects the old town of Duisburg with the district of Kaßlerfeld .

See also

Web links

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

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~1~10123