High Bridge (Griesheim)
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 17 ″ E
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| Official name | High bridge | |
| use | Street | |
| Convicted | Land moat | |
| place | Griesheim | |
| construction | Sandstone bridge | |
| overall length | approx. 5 m | |
| width | approx. 3 m | |
| Longest span | approx. 2 m | |
| completion | 1749 | |
| opening | 1749 | |
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| Above sea level | 89 m above sea level NHN | |
The Hohe Brücke is a road bridge over the “Landgraben” in the “Gewann before the high bridge” on the north-western edge of the Griesheim district .
Construction and history
The single-arched sandstone bridge crosses the "Landgraben", which was built in the late Middle Ages and which still exists here as a remnant. The "Alte Dornheimer Weg", which connects the former residential city of Darmstadt with the castle in Dornberg , leads over the bridge .
In the keystone you can see the date 1749 and a Hessian lion . The bridge is around 5 m long and around 3 m wide. The sides of the bridge are bricked up about 0.5 m high above street level and about 0.4 m thick. The path over the bridge is paved with basalt .
Monument protection
Because of its importance for bridge construction technology and history, the Hohe Brücke is a listed building .
literature
- Siegfried RCT Enders et al .: Darmstadt-Dieburg district. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06235-5 , p. 190.