Kettensteg
Wrought-iron chain footbridge from 1824 swinging over the river between riveted steel towers.
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This guide to the Kettensteg in Nuremberg starts on the planks of a wrought-iron footbridge over the Pegnitz, with a group of young locals who found a use for it its builder never planned. It goes back to December 1824 and Conrad Georg Kuppler, a schoolteaching mechanic who designed Germany's first freely hanging river bridge with almost no rulebook to follow. Best heard standing at the middle of the span, looking up at the chains.
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