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Essing Bridge and Bridge Tower

Essing Bridge and Bridge Tower

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Essing Bridge and Bridge Tower

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Naturpark Altmühltal

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Location: Essing, Kelheim, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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2. Tatzlwurm Wooden Footbridge – Prunn Castle loop from Essing

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3. Essing — Village and Cliffs – View of Randeck Castle loop from Altessing

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JR56

August 2, 2023

Essing without a bridge - a horse without harness! The bridge has been there "as long as one remembers."
The bridge tower bears Gothic features, but the bridge certainly dates back to the town's founding.
The bridge has retained its construction and appearance over the centuries.
According to early engravings, it once had more bays; today there are still three:
Two water bays and one land bay.
The 46-meter-long bridge in Essing is today an admired historical monument,
a carpenter's honor, with its dramatic landscape backdrop, a painter's bridge, a photographer's bridge.
The bridge tower still has a shingled tent roof.
A slanted-roofed external staircase leads up to the two-story apartment.
The passage in the tower has a rounded arch on the Altmühl side and a pointed arch on the market side.
The only public flood marker, dating from 1784, is located at the Bodenstein (ground stone) at the exit. When the bridge tower no longer served any practical purpose, but instead, along with the two gate towers, only burdened the market coffers, it was sold in 1828.

marktessing.de/sehenswertes/bruck_und_bruckturm-22406

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Rainer & Petra

September 7, 2023

the most postcard view of Essing in general. Particularly picturesque.

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Johann

September 7, 2023

Great view from the bridge

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Location: Essing, Kelheim, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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