Kiel Transporter Bridge
The Kiel transporter ferry was a structure over the entrance to the Imperial Shipyard in Kiel-Ellerbek .
history
The Frenchman Ferdinand Arnodin is considered to be the inventor of the suspension ferries . The aim of this type of bridge is not to interfere with shipping traffic. For this purpose, a gondola runs from one river bank to the other, which is suspended from the high steel bridge girder.
As a result of Wilhelm II's fleet policy , the Imperial Shipyard grew and the shipyard area was expanded to the south and north. In the years 1899 to 1904 the area of the shipyard expanded so far that the Germania shipyard in the south had to cede part of its premises to the Imperial Shipyard. The business also continued to grow to the north, and in 1904 the last remnants of the old fishing village of Ellerbek disappeared with the expansion of the shipyard . To connect the two parts of the shipyard, the transporter ferry was completed in 1910 and soon became a landmark of Kiel.
description
The transporter ferry operated until 1923 was 56 m high and 118 m long. The steel construction, manufactured by Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen, was designed by the naval port director Georg Franzius (1842–1914), after whom Franziusallee in the Ellerbek district of Kiel is named.
See also
literature
- Erich Thiesen (Hrsg.): The Rendsburg high bridge with transporter ferry (= Federal Chamber of Engineers [Hrsg.]: Historic landmarks of civil engineering in Germany . Volume 13 ). 1st edition. Federal Chamber of Engineers, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941867-13-0 .
Web links
- Establishment of a naval shipyard in Kiel
- In 1955 the Howaldtswerke took over the Deutsche Werke
- The world of suspension ferries
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 19 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 43 ″ E