Sternbrücke Weimar
The Sternbrücke or Schlossbrücke in Weimar is the most important and oldest historical bridge structure in Weimar that has been preserved. It is also considered to be the most architecturally significant bridge over the Ilm , at least in the Weimar urban area.
history
The 62 meter long and 7 meter wide bridge was built in 1651–1654 by the Thuringian master builder Johann Moritz Richter the Elder. Ä. built in the course of the new construction of the city palace, the so-called "Wilhelmsburg", which finally burned down in 1774 except for a few remains. Together with an avenue, today's Leibnizallee, it was supposed to connect the city palace with the hunting grounds.
Originally it was a three-arched bridge over the Ilm, with the eastern bank of the raft ditch being crossed with a wooden drawbridge. The chain pillars crowned with balls, which Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray included in his design for the redesign of the railing in 1820, have been preserved . In 1794 the fourth limestone arch was added, removing the drawbridge. Duke Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1757–1828) had the raft ditch filled in in 1798, with which the island position between the pillars, the Ilm and the raft ditch was removed.
A staircase leads through the eastern pillar from the park in the area of the former “Stern” to the bridge. Hence, in turn, the bridge got its name. This in turn was made possible again by a reconstruction completed in 1995.
Representations
The four-pillar bridge was erased by the court painter Georg Melchior Kraus shortly after completion . This arch is also known as the Leutra arch after the Leutra spring in the park on the Ilm , which is located in the immediate vicinity . The bridge itself forms the westernmost extension of the park. Kraus had already depicted the bridge several times. These in turn depict a stone railing, which Coudray has replaced with an iron one. No ornamental jewelry was used here. The lattice-shaped railing itself forms the decoration. The oval openings in the bridge piers serve as relief vaults during floods. In this context, the sharp wedges of the icebreakers in the area of the upper current can be seen, which are in front of the piers. Both measures were aimed at reducing the resistance that the bridge would put up against the flood and thus increasing its stability against the masses of water.
This bridge was also painted in oil on canvas by Christian Rohlfs around 1887 in the style of impressionism . The painting is in the Osthaus Museum Hagen .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 1 ″ E