Breisach Rhine Bridge
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 22 ″ N , 7 ° 34 ′ 54 ″ E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | Rhine | |
| place | Breisach on the Rhine | |
| construction | Fixed wooden bridge without railings | |
| opening | 1263 already available | |
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The Breisach Rhine Bridge spanned the Rhine near Breisach in the Middle Ages . It already existed in 1263 and in the High Middle Ages it was the only permanent bridge over the Rhine between Basel and the North Sea . An illustration from 1555 shows them resting on poles, without a railing and without a drawbridge. A four-sided gate tower stood on the first nearby Rhine island in 1555, guarding and defending the access to the bridge. Similar to the Lange Bruck near Strasbourg , it used an island on the Rhine to cross the river and had a bridgehead on the opposite bank .
history
A bridge had spanned the Rhine near Breisach in Roman times. The earliest mention of the high medieval solid wooden Rhine bridge is found in 1263, apparently it already existed in 1212. The Rhine tore them away in 1283, which is why the city of Breisach raised 15 pounds denarii from the abbot of the Murbach monastery . In 1298, King Adolf von Nassau used the bridge several times. On August 3, 1302, the bridge was destroyed in a flood. The bridge, which had obviously been rebuilt, survived the flood of 1424, while five yokes of the bridge were torn away in the flood of 1566. In front of the bridge piers, a pistol shot upstream, stood wooden icebreakers. On a same one who drove in the night on June 11, 1638 fire ships determine which of Weimar Bernhard of Neuenburg let go off, to set the bridge on fire. It burned and fired its grenades ineffectively. The old Rhine bridge was destroyed in 1700.
literature
- Franz-Josef Mone: Sources collection of the Baden regional history , Volume 3, Karlsruhe 1863, especially p. 193, p. 223 ff., P. 320, p. 336, p. 349 Google Books