Alte Mainbruecke

Places to see in ( Wurzburg‎ - Germany ) Alte Mainbruecke

Places to see in ( Wurzburg‎ - Germany ) Alte Mainbruecke

The Alte Mainbrücke is the oldest bridge over the River Main in Würzburg and a landmark of the city. The building was until 1886 Würzburgs only river crossing. The bridge, part of the East-West Passage, connecting with Main kilometers 252.32 the old city on the right bank of the Main with the opposite Marienberg fortress . It is used by pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

The first, Romanesque stone bridge at this point was already built around 1120 under the architect Enzelin, previously there was a ferry there. When the foundations were founded, the Vita was recovered after the statues of the pagan Freya sanctuary (inside the present fortress), which had been thrown down there by the three missionaries St. Kilian , Kolonat and Totnan . The former bridge was partially destroyed during the floods in 1342 and 1442, but also in the course of the years by the so-called Dutch tribes, logs, which were transported floating in the river, affected. Therefore, the building was replaced after nearly 350 years of service by a new building, the present bridge.

At the new old Main bridge was built from 1476. In 1488 the limestone stone piles of the Muschelkalk were completed. The arched bridge superstructures between the piers were initially wooden structures, also for defense reasons. From 1512, the openings were bridged with stone vaults, which drew up for lack of money until 1703.

Until the 18th century, the bridge was fortified militarily and almost completely built with stalls. After the death of Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Hutten , six saint statues were erected on the south side of the bridge at the end of the 1720s, comparable to the figures on Prague's Charles Bridge . Prince-bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn had around 1730 set up on the north side of the bridge another six baroque, about 4.5 meters high sandstone figures. The figures are located in pillar pulpits and are turned face-up to the roadway.

The arch bridge made of natural stone has eight openings with a total length of 185 meters. The clear widths of the segmental arches are between 17.53 meters at the first arc on the right bank and 12.2 meters at the last arc. The bow opening lock has a width of 16.56 meters with a minimum clearance of 5.3 meters at the highest navigable water level. The pier widths vary between 7.08 meters and 7.92 meters. The 7.45-meter-wide pedestrian and bicycle bridge has a 3.85-meter-wide carriageway and is 6.85 meters wide between the parapets. To build the bridge stones from limestone were from a break on the Bromberg, about 8.5 kilometers upstream on the left bank of the Main near Eibelstadtused. The pillars brickwork is below ashlar masonry in alternating layers. The remaining masonry has regular layer heights. Three arches have stone-clad reinforced concrete vaults 0.7 meters thick at the top, and the remaining brick vaults have thicknesses between 0.55 meters and 1.0 meters.

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