Anhalter Steg, Steel footbridge in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Anhalter Steg is a pedestrian bridge over the Landwehrkanal in Berlin-Kreuzberg, between the Möckernbrücke and Schöneberger Brücke. It has three 25-metre spans: two welded steel sections with asphalt decking and a central riveted wrought-iron two-hinged truss arch with wooden planks, salvaged from the Marschallbrücke. The concrete piers are clad in yellow clinker brick, and the sculptural lettering on the pier caps reads 'ANHALT' and 'BERLIN'.
A railway bridge carried trains south from Anhalter Bahnhof here until passenger service ended on 18 May 1952; the war-damaged spans were lifted and scrapped in 1972. The footbridge was assembled from September 2000 on the old foundations and opened in February 2001, funded with about three million marks from DaimlerChrysler Immobilien as compensation for building at Potsdamer Platz.
The sculpted inscriptions 'ANHALT' and 'BERLIN' on the concrete pier caps refer to the Berlin-Anhalt Railway, whose four-track bridge once stood here. The northern pier reads 'Berlin', the southern 'Anhalt', echoing the former route from Anhalter Bahnhof.
The bridge is reached from the Deutsches Technikmuseum side and from Hallesches Ufer, and it is open at all times. The deck is flat and level, with a wooden plank surface on the salvaged central span and asphalt on the two outer spans. The central section is 4.5 metres wide, narrower than the original Marschallbrücke.
The central 25-metre span is the salvaged middle section of the Marschallbrücke, a riveted wrought-iron two-hinged truss arch narrowed to 4.5 metres and floored with wooden planks. The two outer spans are welded steel with an asphalt surface. The bridge stands on the foundations of the old Anhalter railway bridge.
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