{"id":254,"date":"2025-12-09T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/friedrichshain\/?p=254"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:18:50","slug":"09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/friedrichshain\/en\/2025\/12\/09\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"09"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Once Longest Pedestrian Bridge in Europe<\/h4>\n

With the population explosion in the mid-19th century, a central slaughterhouse was needed to supply the whole of Berlin, also to put an end to the unspeakable hygienic conditions in the many small backyard slaughterhouses. So, in the autumn of 1876, the city purchased land in the Lichtenberg district and and, just five years later, was able to open the Central Livestock and Slaughterhouse, with a loading station for the animals nearby. The Ringbahn (Berlin’s circular railway) also had a stop there, aptly named after the central livestock market. Workers who got off here could cross the tracks of the loading station via a 100-meter-long wooden bridge.<\/p>\n

The further the suburbs spread beyond the old city limits, the more urgently a new crossing became needed so that residents of the new housing developments wouldn’t have to walk across the slaughterhouse grounds. Starting in 1937, a steel structure was built on 22 pillars, which at one point were even embedded in the roof of one of the stables. A stair tower in typical brickwork completed the ensemble, soon nicknamed “Langer Jammer” (Long Lament) by Berliners. Destroyed during the war, the bridge was rebuilt and extended to 505 meters towards Lichtenberg, making it for a time the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe. With the closure of the slaughterhouse in 1991 and significant demolitions twelve years later, only a little over a hundred meters of the original structure remain at today’s Storkower Stra\u00dfe S-Bahn station. A reminder of a piece of former industrial history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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