Landmark
Spreuerbrücke
Wooden covered bridge lined with grim seventeenth-century Dance of Death panels above the Reuss.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Spreuerbrücke in Lucerne follows the city's millers, who for centuries held the only legal right to dump grinding waste into the river Reuss from this exact bridge. It traces the granary added after a sixteenth-century flood, and the sixty-seven-panel Dance of Death that the painter Caspar Meglinger added to its rafters in the sixteen twenties. You will pass beneath the surviving panels as you cross, where the mills themselves are long gone. Best heard slowly, looking up at the blackened frames overhead.
This audio guide was created using AI.