Tiergarten Bridge (Breslau)
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 30 ″ N , 17 ° 4 ′ 11 ″ E
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| Official name | most Zwierzyniecki | |
| use | Road bridge with tram tracks | |
| Crossing of | Old Or | |
| place | Wroclaw | |
| Entertained by | Zarząd Dróg i Utrzymania Miasta we Wrocławiu | |
| construction | Steel truss arch bridge | |
| overall length | 62.00 m | |
| width | 21.80 m | |
| Number of openings | a | |
| Longest span | 60.63 m | |
| Clear width | 58.50 m | |
| Arrow height | 12.40 m | |
| building-costs | € 4,131,000 | |
| start of building | November 1895 | |
| completion | Late July 1897 | |
| opening | April 21, 1897 | |
| planner | Alfred von Scholtz , Alfred Frühwirth, Karl Klimm , Richard Plüddemann | |
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The Tiergartenbrücke ( Polish: most Zwierzyniecki) , formerly a pass bridge , is a listed road bridge over the Alte Oder in Wroclaw .
history
Predecessor bridges
In the early modern period, the current Alte Oder provided the main stream of the Oder, which flowed southwards in the area of Scheitnig, so that the villages of Grüneiche and Bischofswalde were on the left bank of the Oder. After a breakthrough in the Oder south of the two villages, a wooden bridge was built over the branch of the Oder between Grüneiche and Scheitnig, which is documented for the first time in 1655. This log Niger Bridge was soon Paßbrücke named as one of their bridgehead in 1704 instituted a guard for sanitary reasons. The last place in the 19th century was a wooden suspension bridge with an intermediate pillar , two openings each 16.25 m as well as an approx. 5 m wide roadway and sidewalks each 1.5 m wide. Since the zoo , the racecourse and numerous town villas had been built on the Grüneicher meadows , the bridge was heavily burdened by the traffic of the growing city.
Bridge from 1895 to 1897
During the expansion of the Alte Oder to a shipping lane, on which the tug trains could avoid the old town, the bridge had to be replaced to create the required clearance width and height. For this reason, a bridge without intermediate piers was chosen, the construction of which was to be placed above the roadway. In order to clear the location of the bridge and still be able to keep road and tram traffic , the entire old superstructure was moved a few meters downstream on temporary piers in a spectacular process. The new bridge was built again on the axis of Thiergartenstrasse and Grüneicher Chaussee .
As the area was upscale, city planning officer Richard Plüddemann and municipal building master Karl Klimm framed the arched trusses of the new bridge in neo-baroque decorative shapes. A bronze plaque with the following text was attached to one of the pylons:
"For centuries I
rested wood over sluggish waters.
Now
I adorn the navigable river made of iron and stone ."
During the Second World War or shortly afterwards, the tablet was melted down and no longer replaced. While (1913 there the account of the further development of the area around Green Oak Centennial Hall was opened with the exhibition center) conceived a broader construction of reinforced concrete for the year 1942, prevented the war these plans and the Paßbrücke - in the war undamaged - remained.
In 1910, 1961 and 1988 major repairs were carried out on the bridge. After the war the name was changed to most Zwierzyniecki , d. H. Tiergarten Bridge , changed. On October 15, 1976 it was registered as an individual building monument with the number A / 1646/334 / Wm.
description
The Tiergartenbrücke located in the district Śródmieście (downtown) and connects the street Ulica Marii Curie Skłodowskiej on the left bank of the Old or with the fork of Ulica Zygmunta Wróblewskiego and ulica Adam Mickiewicz on the right bank. It is a steel truss arch bridge with the suspended lane. The carriageway rests on cross members that are suspended on the articulated tie rods and support the sidewalks on both sides of the arches. It is a fake arch, as the ground base points are connected with tie rods below the roadway. The two half-timbered arches are connected in the upper area with diagonal struts, which were reinforced during a repair in 1910. The two abutments are made of granite and are based on the masonry, concrete-filled well. These reach up to stable layers of gravel about 6 m below the river bed. Two tram tracks run in the asphalt road.
Above the abutments there are pylons made of colored sandstone, which serve as an architectural setting for the steel arches and which themselves have no static function. They are put together from the repertoire of forms of the Baroque and Mannerism , with massive volutes as an introductory element. The cast iron bar railings are decorated with volute-shaped posts. At the abutments, the semicircular openings in the railings made of colored sandstone are filled with cast iron grids.
Web links
literature
- Arkadiusz Dobrzyniecki: Dawny most Przepustkowy (pass bridge) , obecnie most Zwierzyniecki . In: Jan Harasimowicz (Ed.): Atlas architektury Wrocławia . tape 2 . Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-7023-679-0 , p. 18-19 .
- Maciej Łagiewski : Mosty Wrocławia . Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo, Wrocław 1989, ISBN 83-04-02937-5 , p. 30-33 .
- The new bridges over the Old Oder . In: Magistrate of the royal capital and residence city of Breslau (ed.): Port facilities in Breslau: Memorandum for the opening of the city port on September 3, 1901 . CT Wiskott, Kunstanstalt, Breslau 1901, p. 88-90 ( wroc.pl ).