St. Emmeram Bridge

St. Emmeram Bridge
	St. Emmeram Bridge (May 2006)
use	Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic
Crossing of	Isar
place	Munich - St. Emmeram
Entertained by	State capital Munich
construction	Truss bridge
overall length	96 m
completion	December 22, 2004
opening	May 13, 2005
planner	Richard J. Dietrich
	location

48.178888888889 11.624722222222Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 44 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 29 ″ E

The St. Emmeram Bridge is a truss bridge in Munich . It crosses the Isar north of the Oberföhringer weir and connects the island, which is formed by the Isar and the Middle Isar Canal , with the Hirschau, the northern part of the English Garden .

location

The bridge is located in the St. Emmeram district of Oberföhring and is named after the Holy Emmeram , who was temporarily buried in Aschheim and was embarked nearby when he was transferred to Regensburg. The site is also considered to be one of the possible sites on the old salt bridge, which Duke Heinrich the Lion destroyed in 1158. It is part of the Isar long-distance cycle route .

history

In 1976, considerations began to connect the English Garden with St. Emmeram and thus create a new link for pedestrian and bicycle traffic . That is why the Hansjakob landscape office was commissioned in the same year to design the so-called “Isar Island in Oberföhring” as a recreational area, taking into account the ecological concerns of the protected area. In 1978 the St. Emmeram Bridge was built as a three-span timber girder bridge with a construction time of three months based on a design by the building department of the state capital of Munich. Construction and statics come from the engineering office Natterer in Munich.

The timber frame bridge, reinforced with steel girders , was covered with wooden shingles in the main field and planked with an almost closed, lateral wooden paneling as weather protection. 5 cm thick planks made of very hard bongossi wood were laid as the pavement . This resulted in a solid and robust impression, which is intended to be reminiscent of a medieval weir bridge and thus of the historic toll bridge.

On the night of September 2 to 3, 2002, the 96 m long and 4 m wide bridge was completely destroyed by arson except for the concrete bridge piers. In its session on January 29, 2003, the Munich City Council decided to rebuild the bridge at its old location. The planning contract was awarded to the office for engineering architecture Richard J. Dietrich in a planning partnership with structural engineers Süss-Staller-Schmitt Ingenieure GmbH. The new bridge is a half-timbered construction made of wood and steel and roofed over its entire length. It was released for use on December 22, 2004 and officially inaugurated on May 13, 2005.

literature

Karin Bernst: Today's Isar bridges in the north of Munich . In: Association for district culture in the Munich Northeast eV (Hrsg.): The bridge at Sankt Emmeram. With contributions by Karin Bernst, Karl Höferle, Roland Krack. For the inauguration of the new pedestrian bridge over the Isar near St. Emmeram on May 13, 2005 . Verlag NordOstKultur, Munich 2005, p. 17-27 .
Karl Höferle: The Oberföhringer Bridge - a stroke of luck for Munich . In: Association for district culture in the Munich Northeast eV (Hrsg.): The bridge at Sankt Emmeram. With contributions by Karin Bernst, Karl Höferle, Roland Krack. For the inauguration of the new pedestrian bridge over the Isar near St. Emmeram on May 13, 2005 . Verlag NordOstKultur, Munich 2005, p. 28-34 .
Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich bridges . Ed .: Construction Department of the City of Munich. Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9811425-2-5 (building bridges from the foundation of the city to today).

Web links

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