Schwedt bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E
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| use | Pedestrians, cyclists | |
| Convicted | Schwedter Strasse | |
| Crossing of | Railway systems | |
| place | Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg | |
| construction | Steel structure | |
| overall length | 209 m | |
| width | 9 m (outside) | |
| Longest span | (upper arch field) 35 m | |
| Construction height | 0.57 m | |
| building-costs | 6.2 million DM | |
| start of building | 1997 | |
| completion | 1999 | |
| opening | 1999 | |
| planner | Ingrid Hentschel, Axel Oestreich | |
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The Schwedter Steg is a fake arch bridge in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg , which was built for pedestrians and cyclists. It connects the Behmstraße from the bridge of the same name with the Kopenhagener Straße. The footbridge replaces the earlier Schwedt road bridge, which was located further east.
history
The building got its name because it runs along the northern section of Schwedter Straße and replaces the former Schwedter Bridge. This building in what was then the Wedding district from the 19th century had to be demolished in 1993 at the latest after the fall of the Wall . The Berlin inner ring of the S ‑ Bahn with the “ Nordkreuz ” was to be rebuilt after the Berlin Wall opened . The Schwedter Bridge led the Schwedter Strasse in an almost straight south-north direction between Copenhagener Strasse and Behmstrasse over the tracks of the north ring . It met at the same level on the eastern side of the Behmstrasse Bridge and after 1945 also marked the sector boundary between West and East Berlin . In administrative terms it belonged to the Gesundbrunnen-Nord area in the Wedding district around 1900. The northerly slightly offset continuation as Norweger Strasse had not yet been laid out, but Schwedter Strasse ran across Behmstrasse to Gesundbrunnen station.
From the mid-1970s, the northern area of Schwedter Strasse, i.e. between Eberswalder Strasse and Helmut-Just-Strasse (western section of the renamed Schivelbeiner Strasse) was no longer entered on the East Berlin city maps, and neither was the disused bridge. The tracks over which it was supposed to lead had been cut and the S-Bahn passed under the bridge at high speed on a curved route between the Schönhauser Allee and Pankow stations. A general Berlin city map from 1992 shows Schwedter Straße in the section described, however, only as a footpath and this leads to Behmstraße, i.e. as a bridge over the railway tracks.
After 1990, the city and traffic planners in the Berlin Senate agreed not to rebuild the bridge that was to be demolished in connection with the new north cross. Instead, the new structure should create a direct connection to the middle of the Behmstraße bridge and lead this for pedestrians, cyclists and wheelchair users at a slight incline to Kopenhagener Straße. The architects Ingrid Hentschel and Axel Oestreich , together with the bridge construction engineers from the Berlin company Wisserodt Ingenieure, designed an eleven-span bridge that is supported by a double arch structure. This striking bridge was built in the years 1995–1999 by the consortium pedestrian bridge Schwedter Straße , Karl Schäfer & Co. GmbH. The preparatory work was carried out by Schachtbau Nordhausen GmbH.
The footbridge is a section of the Berlin-Copenhagen long-distance cycle route .
Description of the structure
The two steel arches with drawstring and supporting beams span six tracks of the north ring. The double arch lies on its north side on a massive pillar of the previously renovated Behmstraße bridge, the flat abutment connects to the dam area of this bridge. The parapet and exposed walls of the footbridge are clinkered over a length of around 20 meters . Nine bored piles form the south abutment on the north side of Kopenhagener Straße directly on the embankment of the northern railway . The other supports are light steel pendulum frames with elastomer bearings at the top and bottom points. Between these frames in the lower bridge area there is an arch over several tracks on which the walkway rests. Watertight road junctions are built in between the individual structural elements.
The spans of the individual segments are between 13.5 and 14 meters. The walkway with a usable width of 5.50 m is an orthotropic plate, the side handrails are illuminated in the dark. The entire structure is electrically secured against the railway contact wires and also earthed. Next to the north end of the footbridge, stairs locked for the public lead down to the track system.
Bicycle traffic
One of 17 permanently installed automatic wheel counting stations in Berlin has been located at Schwedter Steg since 2015. Of all the places in the city with a counting point, the street is the tenth most frequented place by bicycle traffic.
literature
- Dieter Desczyk, Eckhard Thiemann: When the bridges knelt in the water: Destruction and reconstruction of Berlin bridges , Lukas Verlag Berlin; 2015, ISBN 978-3-86732-199-0 ; P. 126: Schwedter Bridge
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian LP Thiel: I just want to get through: 1993-2010: Reports of an ultra runner and triathlete (Google eBook) (autobiography). The digital preview text mentions that the ultra runner "ran up the Schwedter Bridge to Bornholmer Strasse some time ago".
- ↑ Schwedter Brücke (no name) on a Berlin city map from 1893. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Schwedter Brücke (no name) on a Berlin city map from 1946. Retrieved on May 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Berlin street plan, Monron Marketing (Ed.), Gütersloh, around 1992
- ↑ Detailed information on the bridge at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de
- ↑ Traffic survey bike counter for Berlin: How many cyclists are there? Retrieved February 5, 2019 .