<br>Shortly after the opening of the Central viehhofs on March 1, 1881, the s-Bahn station central-Viehhof was opened on 4 May. Pedestrian of the s-Bahn could reach over the four tracks of the unloading loading station to the stockyard, a 100-metre wooden pedestrian bridge was built. Pedestrians, who wanted to continue to the residential area on the Eldenaer road, had to pass the livestock on the remaining line, which was not without danger. 1928 plans in attack were therefore taken to build a bridge that spans the complete range from the train station to the Eldenaer road. Coordination difficulties delayed the start of construction until the year 1937 between the city of Berlin, the stockyard and the Reichsbahn.<br><br>From 1937 to July 1940 a 420 meters long, four meters wide and six meters high steel pedestrian bridge was then cross through the stockyard. In order not to impede the work on the stockyard, she appeared on 22 supports, which sometimes had between 20 and 32 metres apart. On the southern section of the supports for the construction were built just one of the cattle stables in the roof, which led the bridge across the building. The bridge was covered and glazed with obscure discs. For opacity, concerns of the bridge Office, were reason that through the "possibility of observation inevitably with the stockyard operation of related scenes especially for urban youth a moral hazard present is" (from the explanatory report of the bridge Office of 1936). At the time of the completion of the steel bridge, the wooden bridge was torn down. Bombing while was the second world war severely destroyed and toppled down over long distances, they raised and reconstructed until 1951.<br><br>From 1976 to 1977, the bridge was extensively repaired and extended to 505 meters, by a 85 meter long piece of residential area was built by the s-Bahn station to the new Lichtenberger. Thus, the bridge was the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe. The additional section was already foreseen in the planning in the 1930s, the building was deferred but. Shortly after the opening of the section of the s-Bahn station, Storkower road received its current name on October 15, 1977.<br><br>In the course of the reconstruction of the Berlin Ringbahn and the rehabilitation of the railway stations was extensively repaired from August 1996 to December 1997 the 85-metre stretch for 1.3 million DM (about 660,000 euros) and equipped with two handicap accessible elevators.<br><br>On 3 June 2002, it was started to tear down a 300-metre middle section of the bridge, and by the end of 2003 a 45 meter long piece from the new Hermann BLANKENSTEIN Street to the s-Bahn station was repaired and fitted with a new staircase. The cost of demolition and maintenance totalled some two million euros. Because the bridge not in the concept of urban development society watched Eldenaer road for the terrain and the repair and maintenance costs would have amounted to up to 20 million euros, the middle part was demolished. A section of 75 metres in length on the Eldenaer road was initially preserved for conservation reasons, was but also demolished in March 2006.<br><br>The complete bridge can be seen in the opening credits of the series Polizeiruf 110. Popularly nicknamed the neglected state of GDR times also "long Jammer", but also "long misery" or "Rue de Gallop". The road "to the long Jammer" in the Eldenaer district has therefore its name.