Brick Bridge (Mikulov)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 48 ″ N , 16 ° 40 ′ 8 ″ E
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| Official name | Cihlový most | |
| use | path | |
| Crossing of | Rybniční potok / Mühlbach | |
| place | Mikulov | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | > 100 m | |
| Number of openings | 6th | |
| construction time | 1630s | |
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The Brick Bridge (Czech Cihlový most ) to Portz Island is a baroque arched bridge in the area of the town of Mikulov in Okres Břeclav in the Czech Republic . It is located near the border with Austria .
description
The brick bridge is over 100 meters long and leads from the south over the Rybniční potok / Mühlbach to the former Portz Island. The brick bridge has been protected as a cultural monument together with Portz Castle since 1995.
history
In 1629 the owner of the lordships of Nikolsburg and Steinabrunn, Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein , had the island in the Lehteich , located on the border between the margraviate of Moravia and the Archduchy of Austria under the Enns , fortified and, on the Moravian part, the castle island, later the Portz hunting lodge, built . At the beginning of the 1630s , a representative bridge over the pond was built as the only access road to the castle, branching off the road from Drasenhofen to Lehmühle near Voitelsbrunn . The brick bridge was originally located entirely in Lower Austria .
In 1826 the entire Porzteich including the island of Porz was assigned to the Moravian Dominion of Nikolsburg in a contract between the lords of Nikolsburg and Steinabrunn . The brick bridge thus became a border bridge that led from Steinebrunner Flur to the Moravian island. Around 1855 the porcelain pond was drained, drained and its corridors parceled out. With the construction of the Lundenburg-Nikolsburg-Grußbacher railway , which was led on a dam over the pond and the island in 1872, the brick bridge was cut off from Portz Castle and lost all meaning. New driveways led from Nikolsburg and the Fischerhäusel across the pond to Portz Castle. Through the Treaty of Saint-Germain , the northeastern corridors of Steinebrunn were added to the newly founded Czechoslovakia in 1920 and assigned to the municipality of Voitelsbrunn / Sedlec .
At the beginning of the 1950s, the former porte pond was dammed up to the railway embankment under the new name Nový rybník . The part of the pond with the brick bridge located south of the railway had been in the inaccessible border area since 1949 and was left to its own devices. The bridge was flooded over time and grew in more and more. After the iron curtain was lifted in 1989, the brick bridge was again open to the public. At that time there was only one open arch through which the Rybniční potok / Mühlbach flowed.
In March 2019, the excavation and rehabilitation of the bridge began. The work financed by the Interreg fund was completed in June 2020. The construction costs amounted to 35 million crowns . In July 2020, the forgotten bridge with the Portz Island nature trail was made accessible to tourists.
Web links
- Description on hrady.cz
- O barokním cihlovém mostě nedaleko Mikulova donedávna netušili ani místní, památku teď čeká reconstruction in Český rozhlas, April 23, 2019
- Description as a cultural monument ÚSKP 10769 / 7-8638 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- Description in the information system of the NPÚ