Wilhelm-Spindler-Bridge

The Wilhelm-Spindler Bridge is a prestressed concrete bridge in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick and was built in 2002 as part of the construction project Tangential Connection East to bypass the old town of Köpenick. The structure, which spans the Spree River, is named after the socially engaged Berlin entrepreneur Wilhelm Spindler.
As early as the beginning of the 1970s, the magistrate of East Berlin planned measures to relieve traffic in the old town of Köpenick as part of the “General Transport Plan of the Capital of the GDR.” To this end, he had the main traffic roads Oberspreestraße, An der Wuhlheide, the section Bahnhofstraße – Friedrichshagener Straße, Salvador-Allende-Straße, and Wendenschloßstraße modernized and widened to multiple lanes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the changed administrative responsibilities, the Senate Department for Construction, Housing, and Transport continued the project. Another important measure was to realize a new crossing of the Spree River with a connecting road. The Berlin branch of Schälerbau constructed a three-field prestressed concrete bridge with single-cell box girders and two separate superstructures for each direction of traffic, according to the preceding plans. The pillars are on shallow foundations made of underwater concrete. All visible surfaces of the structure, such as the abutments, supports, and wing walls, are clad in light gray Upper Lusatian granite. The bridge also received five light masts, illuminated navigation signs, and radar reflectors for shipping. The Wilhelm-Spindler Bridge is located 50 meters upstream from a 13-meter-wide double-track railway bridge that has existed since 1940, over which the Berlin outer ring runs.

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