Theater bridge

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 58 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 1 ″  E

Theater bridge
Theater bridge
The theater bridge in 2010 towards Jasperallee .
Convicted Pedestrians, road traffic
Subjugated Oker
place Braunschweig
construction Arch bridge
overall length 24 m
width 15 m
Number of openings 1
Longest span 24.80 m
start of building 1888
completion 1889
opening 1889
planner Ludwig Winter
location
Theater Bridge (Lower Saxony)
Theater bridge

The Theater Bridge , 1889 as Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in honor of I. Wilhelm , the first German emperor , is completed, one under monument protection standing bridge across the Oker in eastern ring area of Braunschweig .

history

View over Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke into Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse and the eastern ring area (before 1906). Easy to recognize: the four statues of women and the four lions on each corner. In addition, the no longer existing tram line 6 .

prehistory

After the end of the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 , vehement industrialization occurred throughout the empire in the course of the founding period ; so also in Braunschweig. New living space had to be created quickly on a large scale near the factories for workers who had moved in, but large-scale new building areas were also created for the local population, such as the eastern ring area. This was originally designed mainly for the upper class and military members of the nearby barracks. The overall supervision of the overall urban development project was the responsibility of Ludwig Winter, the town planning officer.

The new, metropolitan and prestigious residential area was opened up via numerous, spacious new streets and bridges. The main axis ran almost dead straight from west to east from Dankwarderode Castle over the Steinweg to the Ducal Theater . It was followed by the new Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke and the adjoining Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, an avenue leading to the Franzschen Feld with the city ​​park , the Prinzenpark and finally the Nussberg .

As part of the eastward expansion of the city in the late 19th century, the city acquired the ducal kitchen garden in 1888 after the death of Wilhelm , the last Duke of the New House of Braunschweig, in 1884. This was located on both sides of the theater and also went east over the Okerum flood ditch.

bridge

Inauguration of the statues on August 31, 1902. Easy to recognize: On the far right one of the four lions, in the middle the imperial sword . The house in the background is (today) Jasperallee 87.
Passages on the west side

The quarter-circle arched bridge , the design language of which is based on the Renaissance and Baroque , was built from large-format, rough ashlar blocks , so-called boss blocks . The strong balustrades are divided by several pedestals . On its west side, which faces the city center, there are two arched passages parallel to the Oker. A characteristic of the bridge is that it is only 15 m narrower than the Fallerslebertor Bridge to the north and the Steintor and Leonhard Bridge to the south . In addition, it is also significantly narrower than the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße / Jasperallee, which has a double row of trees in its center. In addition, the bridge crossing is also narrower than either of the two streets that lead to it around the theater. This significantly slows the flow of traffic and emphasizes the function of the bridge as a kind of "threshold" in the eastern ring area.

Statues

One of the four lions

A little over five years after completion of the bridge, the idea arose to decorate it in a special way. On February 21, 1895, the city council approved 30,000 marks for artistic jewelry on the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge. On November 28, 1895, the awarding of the submitted designs took place. The winner was the sculptor Ernst Müller-Braunschweig , who was born in Ölper (today a district of Braunschweig) , who together with Gottlieb Elster designed four larger-than-life statues for women that were cast in bronze by Paul Rinckleben . The unveiling of the statues took place on August 31, 1902 a. a. in the presence of Lord Mayor Wilhelm Pockels and Adolf Hartwieg as representatives of the Brunswick regent Prince Albrecht .

The four statues of Müller-Braunschweig presented four molded individually, allegorical female figures represent three symbolized. Reichskleinodien : The Imperial Crown held the imperial crown in his right hand and on the left a palm branch . The imperial sword in armor and chain mail holds a lowered sword in the right hand, while the left includes a wide belt. With her right foot the woman looking to the left crushes a dragon that is writhing on the ground. Scepter and orb wearing a crown and a long robe. She looks straight ahead into the distance and holds the scepter in her right hand and the imperial orb in her left. The fourth woman, also in a long robe, held an open book in her right hand, into which she looked. In her left she held a palm branch . The statue was entitled memory of Kaiser Wilhelm I .

While the four women stood two on each side of the bridge, four larger than life but identical lions were also placed on a pedestal on either side of each bank of the Oker. There was also a candelabra on a pedestal in the middle of each side of the bridge .

All figurative jewelry was melted down during the Second World War .

"Evocation in Red"

Evocation in red , seen since 2008.

As part of the Okerlicht art project , the Hanover- born artist Yvonne Goulbier designed the installation Evocation in Red in 2008 . The installation consists of 150 red light-emitting diodes designed in the shape of rose petals , which have been visible in the evening since April 2008.

literature

  • Reinhard Bein : Braunschweig. City and duchy 1890–1918. Döring Druck, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-925268-01-4 , pp. 25-27.
  • Elmar Arnhold, Sándor Kotyrba: Oker bridges on the Braunschweiger Wallring. Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942712-20-0 , pp. 18-19.
  • Jürgen Hodemacher : Jasperallee. In: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. , Volume 2: Okergraben and Stadtring , Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 , pp. 158-159.
  • Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 1.1 .: City of Braunschweig, Part 1. Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-252-4 , pp. 208-209.
  • Simon Paulus, Ulrich Knufinke: The Braunschweiger Wallring. Guide to the history and architecture of a cultural and historical monument. with photographs by Heinz Kudalla, Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2011, ISBN 978-3-941737-59-4 , pp. 122–124.
  • Ernst-August Roloff : 100 years of the middle class in Braunschweig. Volume 1: From Jasperallee to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. Hans Oeding Verlag, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-87597-009-3 , p. 29 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the Theaterbrücke on braunschweig.de
  2. ↑ Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : Ludwig Winter (January 22, 1843 - May 6, 1930). City planning officer and architect of historicism in Braunschweig. Catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthday in the Braunschweig town hall from October 12 to November 12, 1993. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 86) Braunschweig 1993. ISBN 3-87884-040-3 , p. 132.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Braunschweig. City and duchy 1890–1918. P. 26.
  4. ↑ Simon Paulus, Ulrich Knufinke: The Braunschweiger Wallring. Guide to the history and architecture of a cultural and historical monument. P. 122.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, Verlag CW Niemeyer, Hameln 1996, ISBN 3-8271-8256-5 , p. 94.
  6. ^ Arnhold, Kotyrba: Oker bridges on the Braunschweiger Wallring. P. 18.
  7. ^ Ernst-August Roloff: 100 years of the bourgeoisie in Braunschweig. Volume 1: From Jasperallee to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. P. 29.
  8. ↑ NN : Braunschweigische Chronik for the year 1895. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin published by Paul Zimmermann , Nro. January 1st, 5th, 1896, p. 8.
  9. ↑ NN: Braunschweigische Chronik for the year 1895. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin published by Paul Zimmermann, Nro. January 2, 19, 1896, p. 16.
  10. ↑ a b c d Arnhold, Kotyrba: Oker bridges on the Braunschweiger Wallring. P. 19.
  11. ^ Ernst-August Roloff: 100 years of the bourgeoisie in Braunschweig. Volume 1: From Jasperallee to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. P. 31f.
  12. ↑ Ernst Stier: Guide through the city of Braunschweig and its surroundings. quoted from Ernst-August Roloff: 100 years of the bourgeoisie in Braunschweig. Volume 1: From Jasperallee to Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße. P. 30.
  13. ^ NN : Illustrated Rundschau. In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. Year 1902/1903. Volume 1, Volume 17, Bielefeld and Leipzig, pp. 364–365.
  14. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Braunschweig. City and duchy 1890–1918. P. 27.
  15. ↑ Evocation in red on goulbier.com
  16. ↑ Evocation in red ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.braunschweig.de
  17. ↑ Photo of Evocation in red on der-loewe.info.