Waldemar Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 15 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 2 ″ E
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Convicted | Waldemarstrasse | |
| Crossing of | Green area Luisenstädtischer Kanal | |
| place | Berlin , district of Kreuzberg | |
| construction | wrought iron arch bridge | |
| overall length | 18.50 m | |
| width | 20.20 m | |
| start of building | 1889 | |
| completion | 1890, renovation 1995 | |
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The Waldemar Bridge is an arch bridge on Waldemarstraße in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg between Legiendamm (western side) and Leuschnerdamm (east). It was built between 1889 and 1890 and initially spanned the Luisenstadt Canal , after which it was backfilled, the green area laid out in the canal bed. In 1995 the bridge was renovated.
history
After numerous submissions, requests and citizen surveys, which began around 1850, the Berlin magistrate decided in 1889 to build a building that connected what was then Buckower Strasse (part of Waldemarstrasse since 1949) with Waldemarstrasse. The construction according to plans by Heinrich Liersch and Friedrich Hoese only took 14 months. On November 1, 1890, the structure, initially called Buckower Bridge , was opened to traffic. In 1891, at the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II , it was named after Prince Waldemar of Prussia . When the canal was no longer needed at the beginning of the 20th century and was filled in from 1926–1928, the city administration had almost all bridges removed, only the Waldemar Bridge remained standing due to lack of financial resources.
During the division of the city (1946–1990), the Waldemar Bridge was directly on the border between the American and Soviet sectors, from 1961 directly on the Berlin Wall . After the wall was dismantled in the 1990s, the structure was reconstructed in 1995 and forms a decorative element in the middle of the green area on the former canal bed. It continues to serve the traffic.
description
The segment arch bridge is 18.5 meters long and around 20 meters wide. Your out brickwork existing abutments were stone blind. The supporting structure consists of two-hinged, wrought-iron riveted arches. The span between the transom joints is 16.5 meters. The elevated road girder was originally covered with bumpy slabs on which asphalt concrete was applied and the stone pavement was laid. Granite slabs were placed directly on the iron structure for the sidewalks.
On the abutments there were originally double candelabras on both former banks . The wrought-iron railing was decorated with a cartouche of coats of arms in the middle of the bridge. The candelabra are no longer there, the parapet has been replaced with a plain metal bar construction.
Web links
- Pan from the Waldemar Bridge to the Engelbecken and the adjacent streets on www.youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Misc. Road bridge over the Luisenstadt Canal on Buckower and Waldemar Strasse. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung No. 26 of March 30, 1889, p. 156 ( digitized PDF; 11.7 MB)
- ↑ Frank Eberhard: The history of the Waldemar bridge . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 1996, ISSN 0944-5560 , p. 25–28 ( luise-berlin.de ).
- ↑ Kathrin Chod: Waldemar Bridge . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . tape 2 : O to Z . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).