Donnersberger bridge, Road bridge in Munich, Germany.
Donnersberger Bridge is a road crossing made of prestressed concrete and girder construction in Munich that spans railway tracks and connects multiple city districts. The structure carries automotive traffic across several lanes and was designed for stable, long-term use.
A first iron footbridge over the tracks was built in 1874 for workers of the Centralwerkstätte München. In 1900 a simple road bridge replaced it, linking Trappentreustraße with Donnersbergerstraße. The present structure was inaugurated on 18 December 1935 during the Nazi expansion of Munich; its western middle section survives in today's bridge. A partial rebuild began in October 1969, with prefabricated prestressed concrete girders lifted in at night, and was finished in May 1972 as the last section of the Mittlerer Ring before the Olympic Games.
The bridge and the adjacent Donnersbergerstraße are named after Joachim Freiherr von Donnersberg (1561–1650), privy councillor and chancellor to Elector Maximilian I, who came from the Munich patrician family Donnersberger. German spelling rules therefore join the name into one word, Donnersbergerbrücke, rather than splitting it.
The bridge carries eight lanes on two separate carriageways, with ramps linking it to Arnulfstraße and Landsberger Straße. Bus lines stop on the bridge itself, and the S-Bahn and Bayerische Oberlandbahn platforms of München Donnersbergerbrücke station lie directly beneath it. The 2020 Arnulfsteg, just east of the bridge, gives pedestrians and cyclists a more direct crossing of the tracks.
The bridge's western middle section is the 1935 structure, inaugurated on 18 December 1935 during the Nazi redevelopment of Munich. Its different bearings and girders can still be told apart from the 1972 rebuild when viewed from below, for instance from the S-Bahn pedestrian underpass.
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