Loschwitz Bridge
Pier-free steel cantilever bridge of eighteen ninety-three, painted sky blue above the Elbe.
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This guide to the Loschwitz Bridge, the Blue Wonder of Dresden, starts from a newspaper story of nineteen thirty-six about the colour the bridge was first painted, and the recipe it offered to explain the nickname. It brings in a historian with an awkward question, the shipping associations who would not tolerate a pier in the Elbe, and a German idiom hiding inside the name. Best heard at the railing, looking down at the water beneath the main span.
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