Old Sauerbrücke
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '46 " N , 6 ° 25' 35" E
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The old Sauerbrücke between Echternach and Echternacherbrück was considered a Roman building until the 19th century.
history
Presumably, a road bridge was actually built over the Sauer in early Roman times ; however, this has not been proven. In the 16th and 17th centuries, various remains of Roman grave monuments were discovered on the pillars of the Sauerbrücke, which was probably later rebuilt and renovated in 1748 and 1909. A representation of the bridge from the 17th century shows that once there must have existed six arches, of which, however, the second was damaged and the fifth collapsed at the time of the illustration. The sixth was probably connected to the left bank of the river by a drawbridge. An engraving from 1867 shows the bridge still with six arches. In the course of the construction of the Prince Heinrich Railway, the last arch on the Echternach side was filled in at the beginning of the 1870s.
This bridge was blown up on September 12, 1944 by the German Wehrmacht. On February 11th, the first American soldiers crossed the Sûre near Echternach on a temporary floating bridge. After the end of the war, an emergency bridge was built upstream and replaced by a new bridge over the Sauer in 1950. The road bridge from 1950 has a central arch with a span of 28.10 meters, so that better flow is guaranteed in the event of a flood.
On the bridge is the statue of Abbot Johannes Bertels (1544–1607), the author of the first history of Luxembourg, with an open book in his hands.
The bridge is represented by four arches in the shield head of the coat of arms of Echternacherbrück in a stylized form.
Depiction in the coat of arms of Echternacherbrück
Statue of Johannes Bertels
US 125th Infantry soldiers crossing the bridge on December 1, 1918.
See also
literature
- Heinrich Th. Weber: Bridges across the German-Luxembourg border . Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1997, ISBN 978-3-930008-61-2 , pp. 233–250 (Sauerbrücke Echternach).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our and Sauerbrücken ( Memento from April 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dirk Lutz Krauße : German Archaeological Institute: Iron Age Cultural Change and Romanization in the Mosel-Eifel Region , catalog of sites, 2006, p. 232 ( memento of March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in the Internet archive on February 6, 2016 ( PDF; 1.2 MB)
- ↑ http://www.brueckenweb.de/2content/datenbank/bruecken/2brueckenblatt.php?bas=6185 (attention: table with wrong data)
- ^ The Echternach Abbey ( Memento of April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Coat of arms of the municipality of Echternacherbrück ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )