Hay bridge

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  E

Hay bridge in Nuremberg
Convicted	Road traffic
Subjugated	Pegnitz
place	Nuremberg
location

The hay bridge is a bridge in Nuremberg and spans the southern arm of the Pegnitz . The road bridge connects the St. Lorenz district with the island of Schütt .

history

The hay bridge was formerly bounded by two towers. One of the two towers is called the debtor's tower and is still standing today. The bridge was then also called the Schuldturmbrücke or the bridge near the Schuldturm. It was built as a wooden bridge behind the battlements of the penultimate city wall from 1320/25 over the southern arm of the Pegnitz between the rear large island of Schütt and the lower Bergauerplatz. In 1485 it was replaced by a stone building together with its northern continuation, the hospital bridge connecting the island with the churchyard opposite the Heilig-Geist-Spital (today: Hans-Sachs-Platz). In 1488 a torture column was erected on the hay bridge in memory of Hans Held, who drowned in the Pegnitz . Around the middle of the 19th century, both bridges had to be widened as part of the necessary expansion of existing roads.

literature

• Siebenkees, materials, 614 f.
• Fleischmann, bridges
• Nuremberg City Archives, City Lexicon