"Göltzschtal bridge"

Goeltzschtal bridge

The Göltzschtal bridge is the world's largest brick stone bridge.

It was built 1846-1851.  Johann Andreas Schubert did the calculations on the statics of this awe-inspiring architectural master piece.

Technical details:
Height 78 m
Width 574 m
Number of bricks used 26 million (26,021,000)



© 2001     Thomas Martin Knoll  envelope knoll@chipweb.de