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Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Pirna Town Bridge

Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains

Pirna

Pirna Town Bridge

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Pirna Town Bridge

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Location: Pirna, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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Best Road Cycling Rides to Pirna Town Bridge

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1. Pirna Old Town – View of the Elbe loop from Dresden-Dobritz

62.4km

02:52

540m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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2. Pirna Town Bridge – Pirna Old Town loop from Dresden-Niedersedlitz

49.0km

02:08

330m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Pirna Old Town – Pirna Town Bridge loop from Pirna-Copitz

43.3km

02:02

490m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Rob Inson

July 26, 2021

The route over the bridge in Pirna is underground for cyclists. In view of the fact that this is the great Elbe Cycle Path, not much is being done to ensure a comfortable crossing of the Elbe.
If you want to cross the Elbe from north to south in accordance with the rules, you are pushed onto a kind of raised curb no more than 1 meter wide between the train and the road. If you drive on the road instead, you will quickly be harassed or insulted by drivers. Once on the "bike path" you cannot overtake slower cyclists or you can generally only get down badly if you have obstacles, as the curb is certainly 30 cm high. Alternatively, you could ride against the direction of travel on the nicer bike path on the other side of the bridge. What the police and other cyclists say about this should be clear to everyone. The problem with Brückenstraße would also remain. If you are now on the rule-compliant cycle path and want to continue in the direction of Dresden, you only have to cross at the pedestrian traffic light in the direction of Brückenstraße (whereby you then block the "cycle path" for others while waiting). On the Brückenstrasse you have to drive about 700 meters in the opposite direction to the destination in order to pass under the underpass. If you miss the traffic light on the bridge, you have no choice but to follow the main road in the direction of the main road and then try to turn around as quickly as possible or to cross the busy road, but without traffic lights and merging One-way streets (Gartenstrasse) should probably only succeed far away on the "small" Bahnhofsstrasse. But be careful: even in the area east of the "big" Bahnhofsstrasse there are still enough one-way streets so that you have to drive almost to the city center in order to meet the Elbe Cycle Path.
On the other hand, there should be daring cyclists who cross the 4-lane main road in the curve after the bridge with a 180 ° turn in order to turn into Klosterstraße and thus get closer to the Elbe Cycle Path ...

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Dirk

June 25, 2021

Good opportunity to cross the Elbe and get on the Elbe Cycle Path, beautiful view of the city

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June 10, 2020

Old town bridge Pirna

In Pirna, the Elbe was crossed at a ford in the Middle Ages. The city's first attempt to build a permanent structure, a wooden bridge, over the Elbe is documented in 1563. He failed because of the funding. The next plans for a chain bridge were made in 1828 and were also not implemented because of the high costs. Only the construction of a connecting line between the Elbe Valley Railway and the Görlitz – Dresden line made the construction of the desired Elbe bridge possible. The structure, a combined two-track railway and two-lane road overpass (with two narrow sidewalks), was built as a sandstone arch bridge based on designs by the Dresden hydraulic engineering inspector Hofmann. The foundation stone was laid on December 4, 1872, the keystone was laid on November 24, 1874, followed by the inauguration of the project, which cost approximately 2.15 million marks, on October 2, 1875.

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Location: Pirna, Saxon Switzerland-East Ore Mountains, Saxony, Germany

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