Marienbrücke
Iron footbridge spanning a waterfall gorge, with the classic head-on view of a fairy-tale castle.
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This guide to the Marienbrücke above the Pöllat Gorge near Füssen starts in eighteen sixty-six, with an iron crew building a bridge in thin air for the young King Ludwig the Second of Bavaria. It follows the king's father, his mother, and a letter he sent the composer Richard Wagner about the castle he meant to raise across the gorge. Best heard standing mid-span, facing Neuschwanstein.
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