Bürlass Bridge

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Bürlass Bridge, view from the avenue
Bürlass Bridge, looking towards the Upper Burglass

The Bürglaßbrücke is a road bridge in the Upper Franconian town of Coburg , which was built in 1819 and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

To directly connect the fortress with the Steinwegvorstadt, there was a city gate in Coburg on the Upper Burglass, the so-called Bürglas Gate, with a wooden bridge over the moat through which the Stetzenbach flowed until 1810. The earliest mention of the town glass gate in the Coburg city register dates back to 1415.

After the demolition of the city fortifications at the beginning of the 19th century, the wooden bridge was replaced in 1819 by a vaulted bridge made of sandstone blocks, which spanned the avenue , a path in a cut in the terrain. In 1851 the architect and court builder Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Streib made the plans for the dilapidated Bürglaßbücke, which, like the bridge gate house on the city side, was designed in a neo-Gothic style. In 1865 a stair tower was added to the northwest corner of the gatehouse.

The bridge opening has a clear width of around 4.2 meters and a maximum clear height of around 4.0 meters. Tuscan pilasters on both sides flank the profiled passage arch with wedge stone . The bridge has a carriageway and a sidewalk between the massive parapets with a crenellated crown and roofed square pillars, with a clear width of 6.7 meters.

The bridge gate house was demolished on June 28, 1971 without informing the public in order to enable buses to travel to the fortress. The bridge was structurally reinforced in 1989 and serves as a road connection between the city center and the fortress mountain in the course of the Oberer Bürglaß and Oberen Klinge.

literature

  • Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , pp. 35-36

Web links

Commons : Bürglaßbrücke Coburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wolter: The house book of the city of Coburg 1400 - 1945, Volume 8: Bürglaß I Zwei Schlösslein , Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937527-38-3 , p. 63
  2. ^ Helmut Wolter: Space - Time - Coburg Volume 1: Coburg architects and builders 1820-1920 . Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937527-38-3 , p. 117

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 37.8 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 5 ″  E