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Zollenbrücke - The Gröningerstraßenfleet was on the left
Zollenbrücke in Nikolaifleet

The Zollenbrücke in Hamburg is a bridge built in 1633 over the former canal of Gröningerstrasse. Located on Nikolaifleet in the old town, it is the oldest surviving bridge in the city and has been a listed building since 1954.

A previous building was first mentioned in 1355 as the toll bridge ( Tollnebrugghe ). The name referred to the nearby customs house for the Schauenburg customs, a kind of (goods) transit toll, levied by strangers and introduced by the city lords of the Schauenburg counts (some of the income later stayed with Hamburg , with the Gottorf Treaty ). . The customs house was demolished in 1806 after customs ceased. Older names were Brücke bei der Waage and Krahnbrücke in relation to the local city scales and the Krahn.

The bridge originally led over the Gröningerstraßenfleet branching off to the east from Nikolaifleet , which was filled with rubble after the Second World War and which disappeared to within a few meters with the construction of Ost-West-Straße and Domstraße in the 1950s. It connected the north and north-west of the streets Brodschrangen and Bei der alten Börse (where the crane, scales and Commerzium and Alte Börse were located on Nikolaifleet in front of the Trostbrücke until the Hamburg fire in 1842 ), with the street Grimm (still partially available) and south of it which is also on the island Grimm located Gröningerstraße which ran parallel to the Fleet and by the construction of new roads (the rest of the fleet remote from southern development on the disappeared Gröninger brewery obtained).

The 25 meter long bridge with its three arches of different sizes consists of sandstone blocks . The large coat of arms of Hamburg can be seen in stone above a pillar on the Nikolaifleet side . The railings and lanterns date from the 19th century, when the bridge was also widened by cantilevered iron brackets (repaired 1850–1854, widened around 1870), which were removed again after the Second World War. Since 1953 the bridge has only been approved as a pedestrian bridge.

Railing on the Graskellerbrücke

Next to the Zollenbrücke, on a retaining wall at which the last part of the Gröningerstraßenfleet ends, a classical cast iron railing with candelabra , which has been listed since 1943, was erected on the newly built Domstraße. These originally come from the Graskellerbrücke over the Alsterfleet and were cast in the workshop of David Christopher Mettlerkamp in 1835 based on a design by the sculptor Otto Sigismund Runge , son of Philipp Otto Runge .

  • The railing was formerly part of the Graskellerbrücke

  • One element of the railing in detail

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (PDF; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  2. ↑ B. Studt u. H. Olsen: Hamburg. The history of a city , Köhler Verlag Hamburg 1951. Appendix street directory u. Customs p. 121
  3. ↑ EH Wichmann: History. Topographical, historical, statistical description of Hamburg .. , Jowien Hamburg 1863, p. 64ff
  4. ↑ a b Ralf Lange : Architekturführer Hamburg Menges, 2nd revised. A. Hamburg 2007, p. 19
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Description of the Zollenbrücke Hamburg@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.baufachinformation.de
  6. ↑ According to picture index → Zollenbrücke

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 52 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 37 ″  E