Willigis Bridge

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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 26 ″  E

Willigis Bridge
Willigis Bridge
Willigis Bridge seen from the Adenauer Bridge, 2010
use Road bridge
Subjugated Main
place Aschaffenburg ( Lower Franconia )
Headroom 6.85 m
location
Willigis Bridge (Bavaria)
Willigis Bridge

The Willigis Bridge is a road bridge in Aschaffenburg that crosses the Main 87.12 km above its mouth. It connects the districts of Leider and Nilkheim with the city center / city center.

Two other road bridges cross the Main in Aschaffenburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Brücke and Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke .

history

Wooden bridge

In 989 the Archbishop of Mainz, Willigis , had the first wooden bridge built over the Main at the current location of the Willigis Bridge. At that time it was the only bridge on the Main between Frankfurt and Würzburg . Presumably with the construction of the bridge, evidently no later than 1157 (imperial order), Aschaffenburg became a customs post . Heavy ice destroyed the bridge in 1408.

Stone arch bridges

Due to repeated collapses and damage from floods and ice drifts, it took until the end of the 15th century for the new stone arch bridge to be completed after decades of construction as a replacement for the destroyed wooden bridge. The bridge that z. B. is shown on an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1646, had two bridge towers . The right main bridge tower was demolished in 1771 and the left main main tower in 1780. In the course of the port expansion, the bridge was replaced by a new building after 1889, which in turn was severely damaged by acts of war in the spring of 1945.

According to legend, in November 1631 at the end of the Thirty Years' War, Father Bernhard von Trier successfully asked the Swedish King Gustav II Adolf to spare the city and its citizens.

  • Detail from Pfinzingatlas / Spessart 1594

  • Floor plan by Merian 1655

  • City view by Merian 1646

  • Main bridge 1786

  • Ludwigsbrücke 1913

Today's bridge

Today's bridge is a post-war structure. The previous building, the Ludwigsbrücke, consecrated on August 18, 1891, was blown up in March 1945 when the Americans approached. The construction of the bridge was approved in 1969.

Web links

Commons : Alte Mainbrücke in Aschaffenburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Willigisbrücke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Electronic Waterway Information Service (ELWIS): Directory of the bridge clearance heights / widths in the GDWS ASt Süd - Main district. (PDF 22 kB) (No longer available online.) March 4, 2017, archived from the original on January 15, 2015 ; accessed on September 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://www.geschichtsverein-aschaffenburg.de/stadtrundgang/
  3. ↑ a b c d de Lange, Dirk: The history of the city of Aschaffenburg. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Monika Ebert: Aschaffenburger Häuserbuch VI, Aschaffenburg 2009, Geschichts- und Kunstverein Aschaffenburg eV p. 78 and 79
  5. ↑ Markus Hundemer, Marion-Isabell Hoffmann and Stefan Pongratz: Bavarian bridges on historical photographs . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monument Preservation Topics - Bridges in Bavaria: History, Technology, Monument Preservation . No. 2 , 2011, p. 43 ( blfd.bayern.de/medien [PDF; 20.4 MB ; accessed on January 29, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Doubts about the heroic deed on the Main Bridge. In: FAZ.net . September 7, 2005, accessed October 13, 2018 .