Heiligenbrücke (Ellingen)

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The Heiligenbrücke over the Swabian Rezat in Ellingen
Statue of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia

The Heiligenbrücke (also Sternwirtsbrücke ) is a baroque stone bridge that crosses the Swabian Rezat in Ellingen , a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-125-8 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

The bridge is located northeast of the historic town center and northeast of the Ellingen residence near the entrance to the castle park at a height of 388 meters above  sea ​​level . Bahnhofstrasse leads over the bridge. A few meters further north, a small pedestrian crossing was built as an additional river crossing. Upstream, the Johannesbrücke crosses the river.

The three-bay bridge was built from sandstone blocks around 1762 under Land Commander Friedrich Karl von Eyb according to plans by Matthias Binder and replaced the ford there of an earlier Roman road . In contrast to the plans of the Teutonic Order, the bridge was built in a simple style without a bridge gate. On each parapet wall of the bridge are four life-size figures of saints by Leonhard Meyer , on the left Georg , Immaculata , Joseph and Elisabeth , on the right Antonius of Padua , Leonhard , Johannes von Nepomuk and Franz Xavier . An iron crucifix was placed in the middle of the southern parapet .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Heiligenbrücke (Ellingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brücke , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on January 14, 2017)
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ Die Heiligenbrücke ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Barockrundweg Ellingen, accessed on January 14, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / barockrundweg.ellingen.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 52.3 ″  E