Nürnberg bridges
The river runs calm through Nürnberg, various bridges from the 15th century to today now crossing its path, occasional weirs and posses of moorhens adding to the noise of humans strolling and distant sirens. The bridges are constructed from different materials bearing different stories due to different functions over time. This covered wooden footbridge, the Henkersteg, is one that the executioner would stride over on his way to take the next life, (he was also a healer on the side) and the below solid stone Maxbrücke (1487) now struggles vibrating with traffic.
Small metal ones hum with walkers and cyclists
and massive concrete ones stand sculptural for more and more traffic.
This one, the Theodor Heuss brücke is pretty special. It’s a huge reverberant space and welcome connection point to reality in this chocolate-box city as you can just hang with people relaxed and playing basketball or salsa dancing or find a place to live under its far side with fires and benders and sofas. It’s also the farthest point West in the bike piece. After you’ve cycled the city, the riverside opens out into the space of this long wild park, and there’s the bridge on the horizon.
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