<br>The purpose of this bridge in the original sense is no longer detectable.<br><br>The lean stockyard Friedrichsfelde was built in 1903 by the cooperative for livestock exploitation in Germany GmbH. More veterinary police control of animals and thus halting the spread of disease was aspired by the concentration of cattle trade for designated and appropriate somewhere. The functions of a slaughterhouse were expressly excluded except for emergency slaughter.<br><br>The animal could be carried out with the car, there was a siding, which limited the stockyard left and right. In the northern part of the wastewater treatment plant, the veterinary medicine field, a slaughterhouse for slaughtering and the energy supply were. Through a track curve, this area was separated from the rest of the stockyard and formed a kind of diseases barrier. At peak times 24,000 horses, 104,000 cattle, 6,800 calves, 25,000 sheep, 240,000 pigs and up to 600,000 pieces were counted on the lean cattle yard poultry per year.<br><br>At the beginning of the first world war in 1914, the lean cattle yard first experienced an economic boom, since he represented an ideal hub for the army and people care. After the first world war it came to 1921 to a sensitive decrease of cattle buoyancy. Parts of the grounds were rented artfremd. In the second world war was also the armed forces, in particular the German air force, a major tenant.<br><br>After the war, the area was seized by the Red Army and used as a warehouse, so the stockyard operation had to be halted. For the detainees of the uprising of June 17, 1953, a rendezvous was established here.<br><br>With establishment of the NVA, these took over the site. It was still used as a warehouse and repair base. The military parade to the birthday of the GDR was prepared on this site.
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