Heckinghauser Zollbrücke
Coordinates: 51 ° 16'15 " N , 7 ° 13'53" E
| Heckinghauser Zollbrücke | ||
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| use | Foot traffic | |
| Subjugated | Wupper | |
| place | Wuppertal - Heckinghausen | |
| overall length | 32.5 m | |
| width | 5.1 m | |
| height | 4.1 m | |
| completion | 1775 | |
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| Above sea level | 165 m above sea level NHN | |
The Heckinghauser Zollbrücke is a stone bridge built in 1775 over the Wupper in the Heckinghausen district of Wuppertal . It is the oldest preserved bridge in the city and now connects Lenneper Strasse with Rauental, near the mouth of the Murmelbach .
history
Already at the beginning of the 18th century there were plans to replace a previous wooden building with a stone bridge. But it wasn't until 1775 that two local families agreed to finance the construction. The three-arch bridge was prepared from grauwacke - rubble built and has a length of 32.5 meters and a width of 5.1 meters and a height of 4.1 meters above the river level. After completion, bridge tolls were levied from the numerous users .
The Wupper was the border between the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark , so a customs office was set up at the bridge . It was used for road traffic until 1975, but was then closed to vehicles and is now only accessible to pedestrians.
The Heckinghauser Zollbrücke
literature
- Standfuss, F .; Stone bridges in Germany , 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0240-9
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Heckinghauser Zollbrücke. In: Structurae
- The customs bridge on baufachinformation.de
- The customs bridge on heckinghausen.net