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This list of bridges in Germany lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
The winners also received the contract to build the bridge. In April 1896, construction began, and 33 months later the bridge was opened for public traffic. At this time, with a main span of 188 meters, it was the largest and by its location in front of the picturesque Siebengebirge, the most beautiful bridge over the Rhine.
View of the Bastei The Schweizerhaus of the Bastei Hotel on the Bastei The mountain hotel. The Bastei is one of the most prominent lookout points in Saxon Switzerland. In 1819 August von Goethe extolled the views: "Here, from where you see right down to the Elbe from the most rugged rocks, where a short distance away the crags of the Lilienstein, Königstein and Pffafenstein stand scenically ...
Road and railway bridges over the Hinterrhein near Reichenau-Tamins. This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past.. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): Vorderrhein / Hinterrhein, Alpine Rhine (Alpenrhein), Seerhein (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), High Rhine (Hochrhein), Upper Rhine (Oberrhein), Middle Rhine, Lower Rhine and Rhine delta.
Soaring across the scenic landscape, it’s indisputably one of the most beautiful bridges in the world. Often swathed by mist, so that it feels like crossing through clouds, it is so famous that ...
East German checkpoint at the Oberbaum Bridge, 1961. Crowds at Oberbaumbrücke after the breach of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.. When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 the bridge became part of East Berlin's border with West Berlin; as all the waters of the River Spree were within the Friedrichshain limits, the East German fortifications extended up to the shoreline on the Kreuzberg side.
The sculpture was designed by Theodor Fischer, who also designed ornaments on other Munich bridges such as the Prinzregeten. [3] [4] Munich's homeless population frequently camp underneath the bridge. [5] Police cleared a homeless camp from underneath the bridge in November 2018. [6]
The Krämerbrücke (pronounced [ˈkʁɛːmɐˌbʁʏkə]; Merchants' bridge) is a medieval arch bridge in the city of Erfurt, in Thuringia, central Germany, which is lined with half-timbered shops and houses on both sides of a cobblestone street. It is one of the few remaining bridges in the world that have inhabited buildings.