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Regensburg Sights

Steinerne Brücke

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A veritable miracle of engineering in its time, the Steinerne Brücke was cobbled together between 1135 and 1146. For centuries it remained the only solid crossing along the entire Danube. According to legend, the bridge's crafty builder promised the devil the first soul to cross it if he let him beat the cathedral-builder who had bet on completing his church first. The bridge-builder won and hoodwinked Satan too, for the first to cross the bridge were a dog, a cat and a chicken.

An artificial canal now allows larger rivercraft to bypass its low arches.

 

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