This Jaw-Dropping 19th-Century German Bridge Uses Its Reflection To Form A Perfect Circle – Design You Trust

This Jaw-Dropping 19th-Century German Bridge Uses Its Reflection To Form A Perfect Circle


Dirk Förster

Nestled among the verdant foliage in Kromlau, Germany’s Kromlauer Park, is a delicately arched devil’s bridge known as the Rakotzbrücke, which was specifically built to create a circle when it is reflected in the waters beneath it.

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Natalie Uomini

Commissioned in 1860 by the knight of the local town, the thin arch stretching over the waters of the Rakotzsee is roughly built out of varied local stone. Like many similarly precarious spans across Europe, the Rakotzbrücke is known as a “devil’s bridge,” due to the colloquialism that such bridges were so dangerous or miraculous that they must have been built by Satan. While the bridge (as with all the others) was created by mortal hands, its builders did seem to hold the aesthetics of the bridge in higher regard than its utility.


René Mettke


svolks


A.Landgraf


Henning Herrmann


Michael Bertulat

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