Tauber Bridge Tauberrettersheim
The Tauberbrücke Tauberrettersheim is an arched bridge that spans the Tauber in Tauberrettersheim . The road bridge lies in the course of Brunnenstraße and connects the town center with State Road 2269.
history
As early as 1716, a wooden bridge was built over the Tauber along the road between Röttingen and Weikersheim near Tauberrettersheim. This was destroyed on September 29, 1732 by a flood. The reconstruction followed in the summer of 1733, this time as a massive natural stone bridge with six arches based on a design by Balthasar Neumann , who was commissioned by the Würzburg court chamber of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim . A statue of the patron saint of the bridge, Nepomuk, was erected on the lower side of the bridge above the middle pillar in a pillar pulpit with a view of the upper current , which was already on the bridge in 1716. Today's figure is a copy of it.
After the road to Schäftersheim on the right bank of the Tauber was expanded in 1841/42, the structure lost its importance for national traffic. During the Second World War , on April 6, 1945, a demolition by German troops destroyed the two central arches, and the structure was restored by 1947. Extensive repairs were carried out between 1979 and 1981 for 1.5 million DM.
The importance of the stone bridge for Tauberrettersheim is illustrated by the inclusion of the bridge image in the municipal coat of arms.
The bridge is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.
Building
The approximately 54 meter long arched bridge lies in a south-north direction and has six circular segment arcs , each with an opening angle of around 120 degrees and radii of around 2.00 meters to 5.80 meters. In the fighter , the arches are around 0.9 meters thick, with clear widths of 3.47 meters, 6.94 meters, 8.47 meters, 8.32 meters, 7.40 meters and 4.64 meters. The pillar width varies between 3.3 meters on the first and 2.2 meters on the second pillar. The height of the bridge is a maximum of 5 meters above the Tauber in the middle. The structure has a hammer-right layered masonry without stone carving in shell limestone and is flat on the bedrock of the Tauber . The smallest lane width is 3.35 meters at the right end of the bridge. The masonry parapets are between 70 and 90 centimeters high and around 50 centimeters wide.
literature
- Wolf Michael Nitzsche: Tauber Bridge Tauberrettersheim . In: Stone bridges in Germany . Beton-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0240-9 , pp. 134-137.
Web links
- Georg Simon Fries: The Neumanns Bridge to Tauberrettersheim
- Wolf Michael Nitzsche: Description of the Tauber Bridge Tauberrettersheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 45.6 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 7.1 ″ E