Baerwaldbrücke, Stone arch bridge in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Germany.

The Baerwaldbrücke carries Baerwaldstraße and Prinzenstraße over the Landwehrkanal at kilometre 7.00, beside the Sommerbad Kreuzberg and west of the Urbanhafen. Its abutments and slightly cambered roadway rest on a sandstone arch, faced mainly in yellow brick with red bands. Each water side bears a sandstone cartouche at the arch crown showing the upright Berlin bear gathering honey or fishing.

A wooden drawbridge from 1850 first crossed the Landwehrkanal here. In 1876–1878 it was replaced by a stone bridge with an 18.80-metre span, initially called Gasanstaltsbrücke after the neighbouring municipal gasworks. It was renamed Baerwaldbrücke in 1879 for Pierre Frédéric Charles Baerwald, the gasworks' first administrative director. Damaged in the war, it was rebuilt in 1952 following the historic model.

The bridge is named after Pierre Frédéric Charles Baerwald (1797–1871), a pharmacist, city councillor and Stadtältester who was the first administrative director of Berlin's gasworks. Until 1879 the crossing was called Gasanstaltsbrücke after the neighbouring municipal gas lighting plant. A memorial plaque to trade union leader Hans Böckler stands at the Prinzenstraße corner by the entrance to Böcklerpark.

Half the bridge width is taken by the roadway, and parking is permitted directly on the bridge as a traffic-calming measure. A simple metal railing flanks the pedestrian walkway. Three restaurant ships of the van Loon line are moored right beside the bridge and also run cruises on the Landwehrkanal.

At the crown of the sandstone arch, a cartouche faces the water on each side: one shows the upright Berlin bear gathering honey, the other the bear fishing. The bridge approaches carry two-armed candelabras made to historical patterns after the 1952 rebuilding, and five-armed lanterns of the same design stand at the Carl-Herz-Ufer rondell.