Hamburg says goodbye: The Cremon Bridge is dismantled.
01.11.2021 – Hamburg has bid farewell to a controversial landmark. Since 1982, the Cremon Bridge has connected the two side streets Deichstraße and Holzbrücke with Hopfenmarkt in the city centre. It carried pedestrians over three flights of stairs with escalators across the busy Willy-Brandt-Straße. Despite its interesting and very special construction, it was also an expression of the brutalism of the 1960s to 1980s. Many regarded it as an eyesore.
For the demolition, we worked out a concept for rapid dismantling without major traffic restrictions. Under the eyes of many Hamburg passers-by, the bridge was cut into several segments by a special company, lifted out with the help of two mobile cranes and loaded onto heavy goods vehicles for removal. 48 hours later, the road traffic was flowing again. By the turn of the year, the remaining foundations will also be dismantled in such a way that road traffic is only marginally restricted.
