Gitterdragerbroen i H.C.Ørstedsparken
Broen, der også kaldes Frederik den VII's bro, blev i 1856 opført til at spænde over voldgabet efter nedrivningen af Nørreport i 1856. Angiveligt blev broen opført for at sikre kongen, Frederik VII, mulighed for fortsat at ride uhindret på volden. Broen består af et langt brofag udført som et smedejernsgitter og nittet sammen. Broen hviler dels på fundamenter i granitkvadre i hver side samt på to gitterkonstruktioner placeret i søen, oprindeligt placeret på en muret konstruktion på hver side af Nørreports Gab. Brodækket består af planker og på hver side afsluttes jerngitteret af to naturstenssøjler. Disse er ikke de oprindelige, men tilføjelser fra 1873, som forholder sig til det støbejernsgitter der omkranser Ørstedparken.
Broen blev i 1873 flyttet til den nyanlagte Ørstedpark nær ved og er formentlig Danmarks ældste bevarede gitterdragerbro. Man ved, at bl.a. M.P. Allerups jernstøberi i 1860´erne udførte adskillige af disse broer rundt omkring i landet, men meget få er bevaret.
Gitterdragerbroen i Ørstedparken er således i hovedtrækkene uændret siden opførelsen i 1856. Broen føjer sig i dag naturligt ind i Østedparken med få tilføjelser i form af søjlerne af natursten placeret på hvert landfæste.
Gitterdragerbroen er i udmærket vedligeholdelsestilstand. Broen blev restaureret i 1989, hvor der blev udført smedearbejde, ligesom broen fik ny bræddedæk.
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The Lattice Dragon Bridge
The bridge was built in 1856 to span the ravine after the demolition of the North Gate (Nørreport) in 1856. Allegedly, the bridge was built to ensure the king, Frederik VII, the opportunity to continue riding unhindered on the ramparts. The bridge consists of a long bridge span made as a wrought iron lattice and riveted together. The bridge rests partly on foundations in granite blocks on each side as well as on two lattice structures placed in the lake, originally placed on a masonry structure on each side of Nørreport's Gab. The bridge deck consists of planks and on each side the iron lattice is completed by two natural stone columns. These are not the original ones, but additions from 1873, which relate to the cast iron lattice that surrounds Ørstedparken.
The bridge was moved in 1873 to the newly built Ørstedpark near by and is probably Denmark's oldest preserved lattice girder bridge. It is known that i.a. M.P. Allerup's Iron Foundry in the 1860s built several of these bridges around the country, but very few have been preserved.
The Lattice Girder Bridge in Ørstedparken, also called Frederik VII's Bridge, has thus been largely unchanged since its construction in 1856. Today, the bridge naturally joins Østedparken with a few additions in the form of columns of natural stone placed on each mooring.
The lattice girder bridge is in excellent maintenance condition. The bridge was restored in 1989, where forging work was carried out, just as the bridge got a new board deck.
Logningskrav:
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