Bridgehead (Lagundo)

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Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 50 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 57 ″  E

bridgehead
bridgehead
The preserved bridgehead on the left bank of the river
Convicted Via Claudia Augusta
Crossing of Etsch
place Algund , South Tyrol ( Italy )
construction probably a stone pier bridge
construction time probably 15th century (earlier dated to the 1st half of the 1st century AD)
Status ruin
location
Bridgehead (Algund) (South Tyrol)
Bridgehead (Lagundo)

Bridgehead is the name given to the remains of a supposedly Roman bridge in the South Tyrolean municipality of Algund . Studies from the years 2007/08 make an assumed origin in the 15th century much more plausible.

history

If the Roman dating is correct, the bridge belonged to the transalpine Via Claudia Augusta and led across the Adige near the ancient settlement of Statio Maiensis ( Meran ) . Only parts of the bridge approach on the left bank of the river, known as the "bridgehead", are still standing today. No building remains have been preserved on the opposite bank. At the end of the 18th century, a bridge pillar loomed in the river area in between. The remainder of the bridge consists of nine layers of gneiss blocks with a height of over 4 m and a width of 6.38 m. The chapel shrine, which is visible today, was later placed on this base.

The construction of the river crossing has been viewed as Roman times since Bernhard Mazegger and dated to the early 1st century AD, when the Via Claudia Augusta was built across today's Tyrolean area. The bridge had several spans , on which probably a wooden driveway ran; Assuming various alterations, it was postulated that it would continue to exist from Roman times through to the medieval era. The bridge ruins are now a listed building (see list of architectural monuments in Algund ).

Dendrochronological examinations and radiocarbon measurements by the South Tyrolean Monuments Office from 2007–2008 dated a wooden structure that served as the substructure of the stone wall and thus in all probability was built at the same time as the bridge to the 15th century AD. According to these findings, the building is classified as Roman times implausible.

Historical photos

Bridge remnants in a 1901 book by John L. Stoddard .
Wayside shrine on the ancient bridgehead around 1900

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Galliazzo 1994, p. 177 (No. 389)
  2. ^ Maria Kiem et al .: 1000 years Algund , Bozen: Athesiadruck, 2005
  3. ^ Bernhard Mazegger: The Roman finds and the Roman station in Mais (near Meran) , 2nd edition, Innsbruck: Wagner 1896.
  4. ↑ Preservation of monuments in the province of South Tyrol: bridgehead
  5. ^ Department of Monument Preservation of the State of South Tyrol (ed.): Monument Preservation in South Tyrol 2008 . Tappeiner, Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-88-7073-525-3 , chapter bridge, p. 151–152 ( online [PDF]).

literature

  • Galliazzo, Vittorio: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale , Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 , p. 177 (No. 389)

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