Bad Kösen bridge over the Saale

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Kösener Saalebrücke seen from the right bank with a view of the church
Saalebrücke and Lutherkirche in Bad Kösen (around 1900)
Saale bridge Bad Kösen (2013)

The Saale bridge in Bad Kösen is a road bridge at a historical crossing over the Saale .

The bridge, located a few kilometers below the Rudelsburg , connects the older part of Kosen on the right of the Saale with the newer part on the left bank of the river and marks a crossing over the Saale in the course of the old Via Regia , the course of which is recorded here by the federal road 87 .

For centuries until well into the 19th century, Bad Kösen was the most important landing point for logs from rafting on the Saale. It was also the customs post at which the rafting duty was levied until the middle of the 19th century.

The first wooden bridge is said to have stood here before the Pforta Monastery was founded; it was first mentioned around 1298 and destroyed in a feud between the Naumburg citizens and the Count of Mansfeld in 1393 , but was rebuilt a little later. Around 1454 a stone bridge with a length of 288 feet on three round and five pointed arches is mentioned. At the end of November 1890, during the worst flooding of the Saale in the previous 500 years, it was pushed in by dammed driftwood from the rafting of the Saale and then completely removed. After dam breaks in the upper reaches of the Saale, the flood reached well more than 3 meters above normal. A temporary pontoon bridge temporarily secured the crossing. From 1892 the new construction of today's stone bridge over the Saale was built as an arched bridge with its characteristic turrets on the bridge piers (inaugurated on November 24, 1893). The rafting on the Saale was finally stopped around 1910. The floods of 1890 meant that numerous dams were built on the upper reaches of the Saale over the next few decades.

The total length of the bridge is 137 m with the arches' field widths of 24.5 m each in the bank area and twice 27.0 m in the middle of the river.

literature

  • Hinsche: The importance of the old Kösener bridge in the medieval road network, its destruction and reconstruction . In: Bad Kösen. Heimatliche Geschichtsbilder, Bad Kösen 1930, pp. 20–23
  • Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing: Steinbrücken in Deutschland , Verlag Bau und Technik, Düsseldorf (Germany), 1999; Pp. 151-155. ISBN 3764003898 , 1999

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Hinsche, pp. 18-19.
  2. ↑ Annegret Bäßler, Jens Eder: Historical floods in Europe. P. 33

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 10 ″  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 10.8 ″  E