Ara Bridge
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 13 ″ E
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| use | Road and pedestrian bridge | |
| Convicted | B 2 , B 300 | |
| Subjugated | Lech | |
| place | Augsburg , Germany | |
| construction | Prestressed concrete bridge | |
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The Afrabrücke (also Hochzoller Lechbrücke ) is a bridge in Augsburg that crosses the Lech . It is located southeast of the city center and connects the Hochzoll district with Spickel-Herrenbach and the rest of the city west of the Lech. After the Second World War, the bridge was rebuilt from prestressed concrete . In 1990/91 the dilapidated bridge had to be dismantled again and rebuilt.
history
The first Lech bridge was mentioned in a document at this point as early as 1030. At that time, a wooden bridge (then called the upper brugge ) connected the two banks of the Lech . It was in the possession of the Ulrichsstift. The Lech represented the historical border between Augsburg and the ducal Bavaria.
Since the construction and maintenance of the bridge was expensive, a customs house for the bridge was built on the western (Augsburg) bank. On the eastern (Bavarian) bank there were again high customs duties to be paid for crossing the territory ; the customs house there gave its name to the later village of Hochzoll, which is now a district of Augsburg.
The Lech Bridge has been destroyed and rebuilt many times in the course of history. In 1639 it was destroyed by flames (due to the war). After its reconstruction, it went up in flames again as early as 1646 when Augsburg was besieged by the French and Swedes. The destroyed bridge was rebuilt in 1796 on behalf of the French general Moreau by Augsburg carpenters, in the following year it was again burned down by French troops, in the following years there was another reconstruction. In 1800, the Bavarian military severely damaged the bridge, which resulted in immediate repair. Only a few years later the bridge was completely renovated.
Customs law remained in place until it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1805/06, after which the toll building was demolished in 1835. The bridge was given the name "Afrabrücke" because the customs rights for the building were in the past with the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra .
literature
- Jürgen Bartel: Augsburg Lexicon . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1978, p. 38 ff .