Starling (architecture)

As an icebreaker, even Eisbock, upstream from each other, built shelters and wedge-shaped reinforced bridge piers to treibeisgefährdeten bridges are called.

The few meters above the bridge into the river bed rammed into bars or iron rails to the said bays and piers against the ice conditions, actually protect the rush of large compact Treibeisschollen by dividing before reaching the bridge by the icebreaker in relatively harmless small floes these ice floes.

See also Ice Blast.