Tauber Bridge, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

The bridge Tauber Rothenburg ob der Tauber is a historic road bridge west of the city center of the Middle Franconian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber lying spans the Tauber. The building converted with a 4.0 m wide carriageway and 1.0 m wide walkway a community access road to Leuzenbronn and the Tauber valley trail.

History

The double bridge with two successive stationary rows of arches have been built around 1330. It lies at the foot of the southwestern slope below Tauber Rothenburg ob der Tauber and was part of a trade route from Augsburg to Würzburg. At a repair construction activities from 1791 is revealed after a year, the four upper arches were previously collapsed. In 1925 was followed by an extension of the eastern bridge driveway and twenty years later the building was blown up by German troops. The reconstruction was completed after a good year of construction on 10 November 1956.

Building

The natural stone arch bridge has a limestone masonry, the 45 cm thick parapets are 123 m long. Since the reconstruction in 1956, the bridge is 6.4 meters wide, earlier it was 5.4 m. To the west, the building has a longitudinal gradient. Therefore, at the western end even a bow that spans the mill stream of Mr. Mill, located at 12.5 m internal width. After a 5.0 -m-wide pillar follows to the east of the double-decker bridge section, are the top nine arches without control on the lower six arches. The top sheets have a circular shape and internal diameters between 5.8 m and 6.2 m at a growing Straßengradiente with the arrow height of 2.3 m to 3.0 m. Below is an arc with 11.5 m clear width in the eastern foothills is arranged to follow on the Tauber two more with 12.2 m and 11.4 m internal diameter and 5.66 m headroom. The intervening two river piers are 4.5 m wide. In the eastern foothills of a 1.75 m wide and 8.5 m pillar further includes arch spanning a walkway to. Two more sheets of 6.3 m and 5.6 m internal diameter close from the bottom row of arches.