Double Bridge
Two-tiered medieval stone arch bridge over the river, rebuilt after wartime demolition.
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This guide to the Double Bridge below Rothenburg ob der Tauber starts with your hand on its limestone parapet and asks how old the stone really is. It follows the medieval trade road between Augsburg and Würzburg that this stacked double row of arches was built to carry, and the customs money said to have flowed into the town on the hill. Along the way come a collapse in seventeen ninety and the war years of the twentieth century. Best heard on the footpath at mid-span, looking up toward the towers on the ridge.
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