Regensburg The Old Stone Bridge (Steinerne Brücke) in Regensburg, Germany, Europe, is a 12th-century stone bridge that spans the Danube River.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Bridge_(Regensburg)

2025: "The Stone Bridge (Steinerne Brücke) in Regensburg, Germany, is a 12th-century bridge across the Danube linking the Old Town with Stadtamhof. For more than 800 years, until the 1930s, it remained the city's only bridge across the river. It is a masterwork of medieval construction and an emblem of the city. The bridge and the cathedral are the two major emblems of the city.[36] However, the bridge has been seriously damaged by heavy traffic in recent decades and by water and salt damage from poor drainage and lack of sealing of the masonry.[37] For over a decade, the bridge was closed to private vehicles, and beginning in 2005 it was remotely monitored 24 hours a day from Nuremberg for signs of impending collapse.[36] On the evening of 1 August 2008 it was also closed to buses and taxis and became a pedestrian and bicycle bridge. This was because of a report that the balustrades would be insufficient to stop a bus.[38]

The bridge has been under restoration since 2010; completion was originally expected in 2014 but then postponed until 2017 at the earliest.[11][39][40] Temporary bridges are being used to enable the over 120,000 annual users of the bridge to bypass the section being rebuilt.[39] The State of Bavaria conducted a thorough search taking two years and costing 100,000 € to find appropriate stone to use in restoration, similar in colour and structure to the original material of the bridge and sufficiently tough and resistant to weathering. A satisfactory kind of sandstone was eventually found in an abandoned quarry near Ihrlerstein.[41] The bridge is to remain closed to motor vehicles after the renovation."

https://tourismus.regensburg.de/regensburg-erleben/sehenswertes/alle-sehenswuerdigkeiten/baudenkmaeler/steinerne-bruecke.html

"Regensburg – one of the most beautiful cities in the world, awarded two World Heritage titles

Once a thriving trading metropolis and political center of the Holy Roman Empire, Regensburg is now considered Germany's best-preserved medieval city. Regensburg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006, and the Danube Limes became a second site in 2021."

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Steinerne Brücke

93059 Regensburg

Germany

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tourismus@regensburg.de

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https://tourismus.regensburg.de/regensburg-erleben/sehenswertes/alle-sehenswuerdigkeiten/baudenkmaeler/steinerne-bruecke.html

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Nearby: House of Bavarian History

Donaumarkt 1

93047 Regensburg

Germany