Wilhelm Spindler Bridge
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 14 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ E
| Wilhelm Spindler Bridge | ||
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 in the background the railway bridge |
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| use | Road traffic | |
| Crossing of | Spree | |
| place | Berlin-Koepenick | |
| construction | symmetrical three-span prestressed concrete bridge with two separate superstructures | |
| overall length | 154.5 m, of which a total span of 152.9 m | |
| width | 25.0 m | |
| Longest span | 58.9 m | |
| Headroom | 5.25 m | |
| building-costs | 6.5 million euros | |
| start of building | March 15, 2000 | |
| completion | 2002 | |
| opening | October 7, 2002 | |
| planner | WK-Consult and engineering group Eriksen from Hanover (special design and structural planning) | |
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The Wilhelm-Spindler-Brücke is a prestressed concrete bridge in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick and was built in 2002 as part of the Tangentiale Link Ost construction project to bypass the old town of Köpenick . The building spanning the Spree is named after the socially committed Berlin entrepreneur Wilhelm Spindler .
history
As early as the early 1970s, the East Berlin magistrate was planning measures to relieve traffic in Köpenick's old town as part of the “General Transport Plan for the GDR Capital”. To this end, he had the main roads Oberspreestrasse, An der Wuhlheide, the Bahnhofstrasse - Friedrichshagener Strasse, Salvador-Allende-Strasse and Wendenschloßstrasse modernized and expanded with multiple lanes. After the turnaround and the changed administrative responsibilities, the Senate Department for Building, Housing and Transport (today: Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment) continued the project. Another important measure was to cross the Spree with a connecting road. The Berlin branch of the Schälerbau company built a three-span prestressed concrete bridge with single-cell hollow box girders and two separate superstructures in each direction of travel in accordance with the previous plans . The pillars stand on flat foundations made of underwater concrete. All visible surfaces of the structure such as the abutments , supports and wing walls are clad with light gray Upper Lusatian granite . The bridge also received five light masts, illuminated navigation signs and radar reflectors for shipping. The Wilhelm Spindler Bridge is located 50 m upstream of a 13 m wide double-track railway bridge that has existed since 1940 and over which the Berlin outer ring runs.
On the occasion of the opening of the new road bridge, the City of Berlin and the Treptow-Köpenick District Assembly honored the commitment of the laundry owner Wilhelm Spindler , which was significant for the city of Berlin , and after which an area of the then city of Köpenick in Spindlersfeld was named in 1873 by naming it Wilhelm-Spindler-Brücke was. At the same time a monument to Spindler was inaugurated at the southern end of the bridge, and the connecting road was named Spindlersfelder Strasse . The first maintenance work on the bridge was carried out in spring 2009.
The European cycle route R1 also crosses the new bridge .
Adjacent
- Ernst Grube Park
- Former sports grounds of the BSG KWO Berlin
- former Erich Weinert cultural center (“Eurotower” between 1990 and 2001); stands empty and crumbles (May 2009)
literature
- Eckhard Thiemann, Dieter Deszyk, Horstpeter Metzing: Berlin and his bridges , Jaron Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89773-073-1 , p. 105
Web links
- Wilhelm Spindler Bridge. In: Structurae
- Information on the WS bridge at Brückenweb.de
- “Berliner Morgenpost”: Treptow-Köpenick: Relief for the old town , article from August 25, 2002; Retrieved May 12, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage Schälerbau ; accessed again on May 26, 2019.
- ↑ Homepage with historical data from Treptow-Köpenick; Retrieved on May 12, 2009 ( Memento from September 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Press text of the Berlin Senate on the opening of the Wilhelm Spindler Bridge; Retrieved May 12, 2009
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Homepage of the Eriksen company with details on the WS bridge; accessed on May 12, 2009 ) (PDF; 91 kB)
- ^ "Berliner Morgenpost" transport service from April 18, 2009; Retrieved May 12, 2009
- ↑ private homepage on the Berlin European Cycle Route , accessed on May 12, 2009 ( Memento from April 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Have fun under the screen , article in the Berliner Zeitung of February 20, 1995; Retrieved May 12, 2009