BAS 8768
Wipper bridge

01.05.2006
© Heidi Zengerling
Use of Heidi Zengerling

01.05.2006
© Heidi Zengerling
Use of Heidi Zengerling

01.05.2006
© Heidi Zengerling
Use of Heidi Zengerling
Germany
Thuringia, Germany
Bleicherode
Wipper
Street
arch bridge, arch under the roadway
Stone
1803
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0.00 m2
in operation
This bridge was once the first of the Wipper, the River could be crossed only on wooden bridges and Fords. A first wooden construction by count von Sayn-Wittgenstein was gegonnen around 1670. A century later a new building was with wood from the Royal forests by Zimmermann Martin Schmücking from Friedrichsrode, who calculated that 83 dollars.<br>in 1803, the stone bridge was built mainly of stone of the main tower heavily damaged during a lightning one close on the western edge of the Hainleite nearby castle. Prussia suffered from lack of money as the owner of the landscape and that quarry was just right.<br>The name of which is bridge, which has only secondary importance, according to the legend attributed to the founder of the Diocese of Erfurt, Boniface. He is to have preached at this point.
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