White Bridge (Mysia)
40.37252777777827.310083333333Koordinaten: 40 ° 22 ' 21.1 "N, 27 ° 18' 36.3 " E
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Road to Gallipoli
Granicus ( Biga Çayı )
The White Bridge (Turkish Akköprü ) was a late ancient bridge over the river Granicus ( Biga Çayı ) in Mysia in today's north-western Turkey. Built probably in the 4th century AD, the bridge was in the Ottoman period to the important coastal road to Gallipoli on the Dardanelles.
The building attracted due to its clean design and magnificent marble cladding the attention of early European travelers, but fell in the 19th century stone robbery victim.
Research
The White Bridge was first held in 1699 in Chishulls travelogue mention that they still vorfand standing under traffic. Other visitors were William Turner 1815, 1847, and Tchihatchef Janke in the 1890s, all of which confirmed that the building ancient origins.
Turner describes a very magnificent Roman bridge of brick and small stones, which was clothed with large plates of fine marble: The bridge rests on eight arches, of which the four largest barrel vault spanning the actual river, flanked by two smaller passages to the river banks. The greatest width is 18 step, the bridge width eight step. The arches are relieved by arched cavities just below the road surface. Such hollow structures can be observed in the neighborhood and in the Makestosbrücke and Aesepus Bridge, suggesting a common origin time under Constantine the Great ( † 337 AD) suggesting to Frederick William Hasluck.
Eighty years later, Janke was on the left banks still 50 × identify several arches and pillars carefully smoothed stone blocks 100 cm, both typical characteristics of Roman semicircular arch bridges. Hardly a decade later found Hasluck 1906 essentially only a geziegeltes, his stone cladding deprived barrel vault on the west ramp in front: Material prey for the construction of Karabogha - Boghashehr - Chaussee had the bridge in the meantime finally destroyed. The span was 2.70 m, the width of the road was reconstructed with 7.40 m. The upper parts of the bridge stump had Turkish repair tracks with rough rubble stones and bricks, perhaps derived from the 17th century.
The present condition of the bridge ruins is unknown, in O'Connor's bridge collection the White bridge is no longer listed.