Bridge Spreuerbruecke description and photos - Switzerland: Lucerne (Topic)

Spreuerbruecke description and photos - Switzerland: Lucerne. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Spreuerbruecke.

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Probably the most visited sights of Lucerne are two wooden bridges - Sprobrucke and Kapellbrucke, located on the Reuss River not far from each other.

The history of the Sprobrucke bridge begins in the 13th century. Then it was small and only reached an island on the river, where watermills rose. In 1408, it was completed to the opposite bank of the Royce, where the city's most famous bakeries were located. Accordingly, over the bridge, it was possible to easily deliver flour directly to the kitchens to cooks and pastry chefs. Well, the millers threw the waste products directly from the bridge into the river, which is why they called him Myakinny. In the middle of the 16th century, a flood occurred in Lucerne, which also damaged the Sproerbrucke Bridge. It was restored, and a few years after the reconstruction, it was expanded, adding to it a neat chapel of the Virgin Mary with an acute-angled red roof topped with a weather vane.

Thousands of tourists visit this bridge every year to admire the original triangular-shaped frescoes placed under the roof slope. The artist Kaspar Meglinger is considered to be their author. He worked on a series of 67 paintings for 9 years in the first half of the 17th century. They are painted on wood panels and are united by one theme, popular in the past centuries. A canvas, broken into fragments, called "The Dance of Death" appears before the stunned spectators. Death gathers representatives of all classes and leads to nothingness. Even the powerful of this world - dukes, noble ladies, kings, scientists, priests - cannot escape from it. Only one fresco depicts Jesus Christ - the only one

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