Old Bridge Heidelberg
Baroque sandstone arch bridge over the Neckar, guarded by twin-towered medieval gate and statues.
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This guide to the Old Bridge in Heidelberg starts in February seventeen eighty-four, when ice on the Neckar left the town without a crossing and with a question of who would pay for the next one. It follows an Elector who wanted stone, a court financier named Aron Elias Seligmann, and the citizens of Heidelberg. Best heard near the southern gate towers, where travellers once stopped with coins in hand.
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