Schwanenwikbrücke

The Schwanenwikbrücke

The west side of the bridge facing the Alster around 1900

The Schwanenwikbrücke is a structure that spans the Wandse on the east bank of the Outer Alster in Hamburg .

location

The bridge is located on the east bank of the Outer Alster at the confluence of the Wandse on the border between the Hohenfelde and Uhlenhorst districts . The street "Schwanenwik" leads over the bridge.

Description and history

The truss arch bridge was built from 1874 to 1878 according to plans by Franz Andreas Meyer . It has a span of 26 meters with a total length of 55 meters. The building has two abutments of granite , each offering a vaulted passage for pedestrians. During the Second World War the passages were walled up and used as an air raid shelter; in the following years they were almost completely buried.

Between 1976 and 1980 the building was renovated and rebuilt. The original external appearance was restored. Sheet of reinforced concrete replaced the middle carrier of iron framework. The corridors in the abutments and the railing decorated with tendrils have also been renewed. In addition, the bridge received eight instead of the previous 15 new candelabra , each arranged in pairs, whereby the new lights were based on the original ones, but do not correspond to them.

Since the renovation, the bridge has a load capacity of 60 tons (previously 30 tons). Today it is one of the oldest preserved iron structures in Hamburg and is a listed building. The bridge is registered by the authority for culture and media with the number 22257 in the list of Hamburg cultural monuments.

Web links

The Schwanenwikbrücke on Structurae.de
List of listed buildings of the Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media accessed on March 3, 2020

Individual evidence

^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 167 .
^ Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg . Architecture - technology - history up to 1945. In: Hartmut Frank, Ullrich Schwarz, Hamburg Chamber of Engineers-Bau, Museum of Work (ed.): Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive . 1st edition. tape 25 . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , pp. 92-94 .

53.5654273 10.0168367Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 0.6 ″ E

[1] Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 167 .

[2] Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg . Architecture - technology - history up to 1945. In: Hartmut Frank, Ullrich Schwarz, Hamburg Chamber of Engineers-Bau, Museum of Work (ed.): Series of publications by the Hamburg Architecture Archive . 1st edition. tape 25 . Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , pp. 92-94 .