Yorck bridges, Railway bridge in Schöneberg, Germany.

The Yorck bridges are a series of multiple parallel railway overpasses that cross over streets, constructed from stone with detailed ironwork details throughout. The structures rest on sturdy pillars and shape the streetscape with their industrial form.

Construction of the Yorckstraße underpass began around 1883, though an 1873 report of the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn already mentions foundation work. The finished crossing was renamed and joined to Yorckstraße in 1885. Most bridges were designed by architect Franz Schwechten and engineer Heinrich Seidel for the Anhalt line, with riveted plate girders on yellow brick-clad foundations and cast-iron Hartung columns.

The bridges shape the street landscape with their solid stone pillars and show how the city wove railway lines through residential neighborhoods. Walking beneath them, you notice the varied building styles of different bridge sections from separate construction periods.

The bridge complex is well connected by public transport and viewable from various streets below and around it. Best seen by walking at street level around the pillars to experience the full scope of the structure from different angles.

The oldest surviving bridge, built for the Dresden Railway, dates from that line's opening year of 1875 and differs in its structural features from the spans added after 1880. The Dresden company went bankrupt in 1877, which explains why it financed hardly any further bridges.