Stubenrauchbrücke (Treptow-Köpenick district)
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 44 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 23 ″ E
| Stubenrauch Bridge | ||
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| use | Road traffic, pedestrians | |
| Convicted | Siemensstrasse and Karlshorster Strasse | |
| Crossing of | Spree | |
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Treptow-Köpenick district Oberschöneweide district |
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| construction | three-arched steel or reinforced concrete bridge | |
| overall length | 123.5 m | |
| width | 14.9 m | |
| Longest span | 56.0 m | |
| height | Arch height from the road about 5.0 m | |
| Load capacity | Bridge class 30/30 | |
| Headroom | in the middle arch 5.20 m | |
| building-costs | 133,000 marks | |
| start of building | July 1907 | |
| completion | June 20, 1908 / general repair 1959 / basic repairs August 23, 1999 | |
| planner | Civil engineer Karl Bernhard (1908), engineering company Gregull + Spang (1999) | |
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The Stubenrauchstraße bridge connects the both sides of the Spree located Berlin districts Oberschoeneweide and Niederschoeneweide in Treptow-Köpenick . It is a three-arched iron truss bridge from 1908. In fact, since the 1990s there have been two bridges lying next to each other that have been used for vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
History of the Spree crossing
The development of the communities Oberschöneweide and Niederschöneweide at the end of the 19th century was closely linked to the rapid expansion of Berlin's large-scale industry. Railway and waterway connections offered favorable conditions for industrial settlements. At the same time, however, road and road construction and their connection to the road network of the Teltow district became necessary. As the first permanent connection between the two banks of the Spree, a chain ferry was set up in 1885 with funds from the district .
The ferry connection remained in place until 1891 and was replaced by a wooden bridge in 1890/1891, over which the tracks of the industrial line Oberschöneweide (Bullenbahn) ran and seventeen new factories in Oberschöneweide connected to the Berlin – Görlitz line . The 121 meter long bridge over the Spree was a wooden truss construction with nine openings. The three in the middle were used for the passage through the ship. In addition to this bridge, other Spree crossings such as the Kaisersteg (1898, pedestrian bridge) and the Treskowbrücke (1904) were built, which together contributed to relieving traffic in Schöneweide. The wooden structure of the nameless bridge described here quickly became dilapidated and after only ten years required the urgent construction of a new permanent crossing over the Spree. The district administration decided on a steel bridge constructed from three unequal arches, which also had to accommodate the tracks of the industrial railway running to the Oberschöneweide factories. The tram lines operated by the Berlin Ostbahnen were routed exclusively over the neighboring Treskow Bridge with the new building. The bridge plans come from the Berlin civil engineer Karl Bernhard . When the new bridge was inaugurated, it was named Stubenrauchbrücke after the former Teltow District Administrator Ernst von Stubenrauch .
Arch bridge as a steel structure
The realized bridge with the spans of 21.5 m, 60.0 m and 21.5 m was adapted to the requirements of the Spree shipping for a passage width of at least 50 m. The middle large arch is an iron truss arch with a drawstring in the central opening, the two arch parts are connected to each other at their 7.90 m high apex. The side vaults were made of reinforced concrete, which on the one hand ensured good stability, and on the other hand they could be designed according to the filigree appearance of the main arch. All bridge abutments and pillars received a granite facing . In the 1920s up to fourteen trains of the private connecting tram operated by the Berlin tram rolled over the Stubenrauchbrücke with up to 130 axles, which led to an extraordinary structural load. On January 6, 1925, a stretching of the steel tie in the middle led to the traffic closure. After the roadway was demolished and the truss arches excavated, new tension straps and a new roadway were installed from a lower frame.
Destruction and reconstruction after World War II
During bombing at the end of World War II , the bridge was badly damaged by hits in the central and northern openings. A temporary bridge built by Soviet pioneers over the northern field in 1945 and straightening work on the steel structure made it possible to continue using the bridge. Since the end of the war there has been no tram connection between Ober- and Niederschöneweide due to the destruction of the Treskow Bridge. Therefore, in 1947 a tram line was laid over the Stubenrauchbrücke, which was abandoned in 1951 after the Treskowbrücke was rebuilt. After the repair of the Treskow Bridge, a comprehensive restoration of the Stubenrauch Bridge took place. By 1959 it was largely restored to its old appearance. The operation of the industrial railway over the bridge was stopped at the same time, so that only car traffic was now carried over the Stubenrauchbrücke. In 1969, which was operational track tram abandoned. Since the north-south car traffic has been diverted permanently over the Stubenrauchbrücke since 1971, the traffic load here increased further within a few decades.
In addition to the historic Stubenrauch Bridge, which is now under monument protection, the Berlin Senate had a reinforced concrete girder bridge built 20 meters down the Spree in the early 1990s, which serves as a makeshift structure for traffic between Ober- and Niederschöneweide. Both parts of the bridge are one-way streets. In 1994 the bridges had to be closed to truck traffic. Between 1998 and 1999, funds from the joint task of improving the regional economic structure and the European Fund for Regional Development were used to carry out basic repairs to the bridge, which cost a total of 12.5 million marks . Specialists from the engineering company Gregull + Spang planned the reinforcement of the metal construction by installing an orthotropic deck and the renewal of corroded metal parts of the main opening. On the south side, a new concrete arch corresponding to the northern arch of the bridge was built according to old templates. Several historicizing street lights were installed on the middle section of the bridge. In accordance with a small request from the Nature Conservation Foundation to the Berlin House of Representatives in July 2007, a dismantling of the temporary bridge is planned, but no dates were given at the time. After the Minna-Todenhagen Bridge has been put into operation about 800 meters down the Spree, dismantling can begin.
literature
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and its bridges . Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , pp. 102-103.
- Heinze, Thiemann and Demps : Berlin and its bridges . VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1987, p. 212.
- Landesdenkmalamt (Hrsg.): Monuments in Berlin. Districts of Nieder- and Oberschöneweide, Treptow-Köpenick district . Michael Imhof Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-937251-10-3 .
Web links
- Stubenrauchbrücke (Treptow-Köpenick district). In: Structurae
- Longitudinal section of the Stubenrauch bridge on the homepage of Lucke-Umpfenbach, which was also involved in the renovation of the bridge in 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 801,000 euros
- ↑ Peter Bock et al. : The cops from Oberschöneweide. An industrial railway in the southeast of Berlin . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 4, 2003, pp. 89 .
- ↑ Peter Bock et al. : The bulls of Oberschöneweide , p. 91.
- ↑ News from the BVG. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 22, 1947, p. 6.
- ↑ New transport connections. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 31, 1951, p. 6.
- ↑ Peter Bock et al. : The bulls of Oberschöneweide , p. 95.
- ↑ Monument Stubenrauchbrücke (Schöneweide)
- ↑ Free travel across the Spree? In: Müggelheimer Bote , edition 09/99, accessed on April 1, 2009
- ^ Homepage of Gregull + Spang with information on the renovation of the Stubenrauchbrücke; Retrieved April 1, 2009
- ↑ Stubenrauchbrücke will be closed. Renovation hinders traffic from Köpenick to Treptow . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 14, 1998; Retrieved April 1, 2009
- ↑ Inquiry from July 2007 on the dismantling of the temporary bridge next to the Treptower Stubenrauchbrücke ( memento of October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved April 1, 2009
- ↑ press release. District Office Treptow-Köpenick, August 26, 2015