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<br>Originally a wooden pile bridge with five pairs of valves for ship passage was located at the site of the orphanage bridge. They had very great importance for the city, in the 18th century owing not least to the generous dimensions of 83 meters in length and 6.90 meters in width.<br>The bridge was named after the late 17th century nearby built "large Friedrich hospital", that served as a nursing home for orphans and was demolished in 1908.<br>After almost 200 years of use and Berlin meanwhile has been expanding as the Royal residence city of the Berlin magistrate built 1892-1894 a stone bridge to the replacement in the same place. Stone bridges were generally considered more stable, and less reparaturanfällig, it could be built without doors and with larger spans. The new orphan bridge was covered with red sandstone slabs from the main area. The building received balconies above the pillar-like decorated two middle pillar heads. The visible surfaces are decorated with reliefs and the railing as balusters decorated. Eight wrought-iron candelabra of multi-gas donated light at night the bridge users.<br>The southern Arch of the bridge towards the end of the second world war by German Wehrmacht troops was blown up in 1945. Soon built emergency bridge by only 5.5 m width led the traffic on the spree, because a neighbouring Jannowitzbrücke and the mill dam bridge not so quickly rebuilt. The debris path used for the transporting of the destroyed City Center ran from 1949 to 1954 on the temporary bridge.[1] With the completion of the new Jannowitzbrücke, the termination of debris transportation and in compliance with requirements of the shipping industry the municipality had 1960 cancel the orphanage bridge.<br>The two former landside connections for the bridge have been preserved, on the South side, the rest is used as landing, on the north side benches for walkers are placed at Lake Roland in continuation of a small green area. I discovered the original bridge PS on a postage stamp with the year 1783. I have therefore added to the built and photographed the stamp. I show the image in the images. Helmut Fischer