Luoyang Bridge
The Luoyang Bridge ( Chinese 洛陽橋 / 洛阳桥 , Pinyin Luòyáng Qiáo ) or Wan'an Bridge ( Chinese 萬 安橋 / 万 安桥 , Pinyin Wàn'ān Qiáo - "Bridge of Ten Thousand Fold Peace") in the city of Quanzhou , Fujian Province , China, is an old stone slab bridge with a stone railing over the tidal Luoyang River (洛陽 江; Luòyáng Jiāng).
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The Luoyang Bridge, along with the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugou Qiao) in Beijing, the Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei and the Guangji Bridge in Chaozhou , Guangdong Province, is one of the well-known ancient Chinese stone bridges.
Today it serves as a pedestrian bridge and was once also a landing stage.
It was built during the Northern Song Dynasty between 1053 and 1059.
The bridge originally had a total length of approx. 1200 m before the river bed was narrowed by embankment measures. Today it leads (from west to east) over a short dam built into the river and 7 bridges to a small island, from which another 40 fields lead to the eastern bank. All fields have pillar spacing of approx. 11 m. The wide pillars made of stone beams stand on foundations with flow dividers in the shape of a ship's bow. Today the bridge, including the small island, is around 730 m long and 4.5 m wide.
It is decorated with 28 stone lions, seven stone pavilions and nine stone pagodas.
The bridge has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China in Fujian (3-68) since 1988 .
literature
- Siegfried Englert : The Fujian Province in the PR China . Annweiler: Plöger, 2013. ISBN 978-3-89857-289-7
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Coordinates: 24 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ N , 118 ° 40 ′ 37 ″ E