Www.luise-berlin.de information:<br><br>The Waterloo Bridge connects the Brachvogel-with the Alexandrinenstraße over the Landwehrkanal. The extension of the city required a more channel crossing, which was created in 1890/91 with the bridge by Heinrich Liersch. The bridge was named after the battle of Waterloo (village south of Brussels), where British and Prussia under the Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) and Gebhard Leberecht Blücher(1742–1819) on the 18.06.1815 Napoleon I. defeated (1769-1821). The battle was named Alliance, the venue of the meeting together of both Commander-in-Chief, by the Prussians after the beautiful homestead. The British gave her name to the place where its commander Wellington had his headquarters. W. was destroyed in the second world war and as building on the 18.12.1957 recommissioned. The pre-stressed concrete bridge has a span width of 18 m, a simple iron railing limited 11 m wide roadway and two 4 m wide sidewalks. An inscription reminds of destruction and reconstruction.