Baling bridge

The Baling Bridge ( Chinese  灞陵 桥 , Pinyin Bàlíng qiáo , English Baling Bridge ), also called Wo Bridge ( 卧 桥 , Wò qiáo ), is a wooden, covered arch bridge over the Qingyuan He清源 河River in Weiyuan County of Dingxi in northwest China's Gansu Province . It was first built in the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty and was later destroyed by a flood. The current bridge from 1919 was modeled on the Wo Bridge in Lanzhou .

The Baling Bridge has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-1072) since 2006 .

Web links

• China's Historic Bridges: Architecture over Water - English (PDF file; 1.94 MB)

Coordinates: 34 ° 1 ′ 21 ″  N , 113 ° 47 ′ 3.1 ″  E