Bridge over the Ravning Enge
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 46.8 ″ E
The bridge over the Ravning Enge dates from the Viking Age and was dated to 978 AD plus / minus 100 years. It is located in the Danish Jutland , west of Vejle and south of Ravning in the course of the old Heerweg ( Danish Hærvejen ) and the Vejle Å. It once spanned the marsh valley of the Ravning Enge (narrow = "meadow").
The bridge, explored in 1953, is the only major prehistoric bridge in Denmark and Scandinavia , which makes it something special.
Four rows of posts had been rammed into the muddy ground at a distance of 1.5 m, with a distance from row to row of 2.4 m. Each post was exactly one Roman square foot (pes quadratus) in cross section. The postwork was connected with planks and covered with boards so that a five-meter-wide path stretched about 760 m over the swamp on around 1800 posts.
As the wood analysis of the posts showed, it was built at the same time as the Viking castles of Aggersborg , Fyrkat , Nonnebakken and Trelleborg and must be attributed to Sven Gabelbart , for whom the dendrochronological values speak for the construction of the Trelleborg. The bridge and the castles had the same short lifespan. It no longer exists, all that can be seen is a strip, largely free of vegetation, with the markings of the post holes and the replica of the bridgeheads.
See also
literature
- Mogens Schou Jørgensen: The famous bro . In; Skalk 1998: 5.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ), p. 105.
Web links
- Description at vikingeborge.dk (Danish)
- Description at the National Museum (Danish)