Plain bridge
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 38 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Convicted | Itzlinger Hauptstrasse (L118 Bergheimer Landesstrasse) | |
| Crossing of | Alterbach | |
| place | Salzburg ( Itzling , Itzling North ) | |
| overall length | 22nd | |
| width | 10 | |
| Number of openings | 1 | |
| completion | 1951/52 (old bridge 1733) | |
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| Above sea level | 416 m above sea level A. | |
The Plainbrücke is a small bridge originally built in 1733 in the north of the Austrian city of Salzburg , just before the city limits of Bergheim at the foot of the Plainberg . It leads across the Alterbach and carries a statue of St. John Nepomuk .
location
The bridge spans the Alterbach, which forms the border between the Salzburg districts of Itzling in the south and Itzling north . It leads the Itzlinger Hauptstraße as part of the L118 Bergheimer Landesstraße over the brook and thus carries the entire traffic between the city and the Bergheim area as well as part of the long-distance traffic towards Braunau am Inn .
history
Two paths leading out of the city met at the Plain Bridge, one of which led further over the Plainberg to Lengfelden and at the same time became the pilgrimage route to the Maria Plain basilica ; the other way was to Bergheim and beyond to the north. The first was one of the most economically important routes around the city. The latter had existed at least since the Middle Ages, but was of little importance for a long time, as the main route for long-distance connections to the north led on the left side of the Salzach ( Rupertiwinkel ) , which at the time was to the Archdiocese of Salzburg , now on Bavarian territory . The path on the right had to overcome a narrow point between the Salzach and Plainberg on the slope up to the town of Bergheim; today's Itzling West apron has only existed since the Salzach regulations in the 1870s.
The Plainbrücke, the first stone bridge over the Alterbach, was built under the Salzburg Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian in 1733. On the north side of the bridge, at the old fork in the paths to Bergheim and the Plainberg, is the ninth of the 15 secret pillars that lined the pilgrimage route from Salzburg to Maria Plain . In 1830 there was a renewal.
This route developed into an important transport connection in the last century and is now run as Bergheimer Landesstraße (L 118). The current structure was built in 1951, the last major renovation dates back to 1983, whereby the shape and components of the original bridge have been preserved.
On the busy road, the small plain bridge easily escapes the attention in motorized traffic. Her earlier distinctive character can still be traced back to the fact that a station of the Salzburg local railway , a bus stop and a traditional (now run as a hotel) inn are named after her.
Building description
The Plain Bridge is a single-arched stone bridge around 22 m long and 10 m wide made from conglomerate blocks. The side parapets, approximately 1.20 m high, parallel to the driveway, widen at both ends of the bridge and give the impression of access ramps. They still come from the original baroque bridge. The substructure of the bridge and the pavement have been modernized.
On the western parapet in the middle of the bridge there is a statue of St. John Nepomuk ; the bridge is therefore sometimes also called "Nepomuk Bridge". The year 1952 is inconspicuously carved into the stone of the parapet below the statue. The life-size marble sculpture was created in 1733 by the Salzburg sculptor Josef Anton Pfaffinger ; A relief with the coat of arms of Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian is modeled on the base. The "bridge saint" Johannes Nepomuk is regarded as an intercessor against the risk of flooding and drowning, and the erection of the statue seems to be explainable; because before the nearby Salzach, but also north of the Plainberg, the Fischach and the Plainbach were regulated, flooding of these waters and the destruction of the adjacent arable land were not uncommon. There are other statues of the saint from the time of Archbishop Firmian.
Web links
- Photograph of the Plain Bridge from around 1912 on bildarchivaustria.at
proof
- ^ Fritz Koller: The traffic situation of Salzburg in the Middle Ages and early modern times. In: Verkehrsland Salzburg. Series of publications of the state press office, series of special publications No. 198, Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-85015-202-2 , pp. 7–27, here: pp. 18 f.
- ↑ a b Robert Messner: Salzburg in the Vormärz: historical-topographical representation of the city of Salzburg on the basis of the cadastral survey , volume 2 of Topography of Old Salzburg. Publishers Association of Scientific Societies in Austria, 1990, p. 91.
- ↑ So in Herbert Dorn: Secret columns on the way to Maria Plain. Salzburg 1990, p. 27.
- ↑ Dehio Salzburg 1986, p. 229.
- ↑ Austrian Art Topography , ed. v. Art History Institute of the k. k. Central Commission for Monument Preservation, Volume XI, III. Part: Salzburg judicial district, Anton Schroll art publisher, Vienna 1916, available online at archive.org (unedited transcript of a scan).
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↑ Statues of Johannes Nepomuk from his time can also be found on today's State Bridge (now placed by the Sisters of Mercy), at the Leopoldkroner Weiher, in Oberndorf and in St. Jakob am Thurn; see:
Franz Martin: Salzburg's princes in the baroque era . 3rd edition, Verlag Das Bergland-Buch, 1949, p. 183.
Gerlinde Helm: About the independence of the copy. An investigation into the stylistic independence of Joseph Anton Pfaffinger (1684–1758) compared to his baroque “model” Michael Bernhard Mandl (approx. 1660–1711) on the basis of selected work examples. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde (MGSLK), Volume 133, 1993, pp. 177–224, especially pp. 179, 222.