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Heckinghausen Toll Bridge

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Heckinghausen Toll Bridge

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Schrenki

January 20, 2021

The old customs bridge in Heckinghausen from 1775 is the oldest surviving bridge in the city and once formed the customs border between the Duchy of Berg (Rhineland) and the County of Mark (Westphalia).
It is still usable for pedestrians and cyclists.

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

July 3, 2021

It survived the Second World War unscathed. From 1949 onwards, even the 0 bus ran across it. In 1955, it was closed to car traffic for the first time. In 1961, a general renovation took place, during which the mortarless bridge was also sprayed with cement, as it was expected to be subjected to enormous loads. Due to the construction of a new Bockmühl bridge, traffic had to be diverted over the old bridge. It was not until 1975, on the 200th anniversary, that cars were finally banned from the bridge.

The list of anecdotes and stories is as long as the history of the bridge. In particular, the fact that only pedestrians were allowed to cross for free led to some funny situations. A young mother who could not carry her heavy twins and had to push them in a stroller had to pay for this transport. Since there was no tariff point for strollers and babies, the bridge keeper simply charged 4 Pfennig for "2 small animals at 2 Pfennig each." A goat on a rope (goat led on a rope) cost 1 Pfennig. If you took the goat on your shoulder and carried it across, you paid nothing! The bridge toll collector also gained involuntary fame, as he was given a horse apple instead of the bridge toll.
Detailed historical description of this and previous bridges: bzv-heckinghausen.de/historisches/alte-zollbr%C3%BCcke

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Siggi

August 29, 2020

The Heckinghauser Zollbrücke was built in 1775 and is the oldest surviving bridge in the city.

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Herr Weihe

July 19, 2025

Looking downstream, you can see the Johnson & Johnson site on the left. It is the founding site of the global corporation Bayer, with currently 93,000 employees (as of December 31, 2024) and the main production site for o.b. tampons. Two billion o.b. tampons are produced there annually.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

June 12, 2024

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"The old Heckinghausen customs bridge dates from 1775 and is the oldest Wupper bridge in Wuppertal. The coal route from Hasslinghausen to Barmen crosses the Wupper over this bridge, which in the 17th and 18th centuries also formed the border between the County of Mark, which belonged to Prussia, and the Duchy of Berg.

It was not just coal that crossed the Wupper here. Young men from Mark who wanted to avoid Prussian soldier recruitment also crossed the "Wupper" here, establishing a popular term for getting lost or missing that has been preserved to this day."

ruhrkohlenrevier.de/ob9803.html

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