Schnapps bridge
The Schnapsbrücke is a pedestrian bridge protected as a cultural monument over the Lenne River in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Werdohl in the Märkisches Kreis , Sauerland .
history
The Schnapsbrücke has its origins on the basis of a private initiative by the Werdohl innkeeper Otto Spelsberg. In order to give the workers of the Kugel & Berg company (today ThyssenKrupp VDM ) access to his restaurant, he built a wooden walkway over the Lenne. The jetty was soon given the name Schnapsbrücke in the population because of the workers' preferred consumption of alcoholic beverages.
This construction was of a temporary nature, so that it was regularly washed away after floods . The wood that was taken from the water was collected by finders and bought again by Spelsberg in order to use it to rebuild the bridge repeatedly.
In 1911 a fixed reinforced concrete bridge was built in place of the temporary structure, which is still called the Schnaps Bridge today.
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Company Andernach & Bleck | Workshop building Markstrasse | Former Hohenlimburg Castle Brewery | Lennewehr Hohenlimburg | Hoesch settlement | Bridge over the Lenne in Stenglingsen | Steam locomotive Carl | Altena train station | Stone Bridge | Workers' settlement, Werdohler Strasse 12-32 | Turbine and generator from the company Elektromark | Factory hall and clock tower Wilhelmsthal | Wilhelmsthal power plant and weir | Railway bridge over the Lenne in Ohle | Werdohl railway station | "Schnapsbrücke" pedestrian bridge | Portal of the Werdohl railway tunnel | Lennebrücke Hilfringhausen | Plettenberg-Eiringhausen station | Reiter-Stellwerk Bahnhof Plettenberg | Railway bridge over the Lenne in Siesel | Sieseler tunnel
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 7.4 " N , 7 ° 45 ′ 57.3" E