The Moltke Bridge at night in Berlin-Mitte by Silva Wischeropp

This long-exposure photograph of Berlin’s Moltke Bridge was taken on the night of 26 March 2016 using a NIKON D90 (lens: SIGMA 18.0–50.0 mm f/2.8).
The Moltke Bridge is located in Berlin’s government district in the Tiergarten neighbourhood.

The Moltke Bridge is a road and footbridge with a load-bearing steel structure resting on stone piers; it spans the River Spree in Berlin’s Mitte district, which here forms part of Moabit.
The bridge, clad in red sandstone, connects Willy-Brandt-Straße (until January 1998: Moltkestraße), which runs across it, with Alt-Moabit, thereby linking the government and parliamentary district in the Spreebogen in the Tiergarten district with Moabiter Werder and the main railway station in the Moabit district. The grounds of the Federal Chancellery adjoin the south-western end of the bridge.

The bridge, richly adorned with paintings and sculptures, is named after Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to 1888. It was built between 1886 and 1891 under the artistic direction of Otto Stahn. The structure, which was damaged during the Second World War, was reopened in 1947 and extensively restored and modernised between 1983 and 1986.

The Moltke Bridge is a listed building.