THE OLDEST WESTERN-SLAVIC BRIDGES FROM THE AREA BETWEEN THE ELBA AND THE ODRA RIVERS (VIII–X/XI CENTURY)
Journal Title: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Archeologia - Year 2011, Vol 2011, Issue 0
Abstract
Information about discoveries of the bridges we can to find in the literature from half XIXth and accidentally from XVIIIth century. Few of these objects were found in dried lakes, during melioration works or regulation of the rivers’ beds, which were carried out on all European territory. To the group of the oldest Western-Slavic bridges, build at VIIIth to X/XIth century belong 21 sites from Germany. The most of the bridges were found in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (15), Schleswig-Holstein (3), Brandenburg (2) and one in Berlin-Spandau. They usually connected fortified settlements situated on the island with the land. Few of these, known from the old literature, today is treated like socalled bridge-shaped roads. The bridges with singular or multi-row system of the yoke’s construction were, to not long ago, the most characteristic element of the Central Europe’s landscape. Despite conducted new materials to bridge’s building, they exist from today. At this same time we can to observe renaissances of the wooden bridge’s building, specially like the passages for pedestrian or cyclists, which are visibility mainly in the parks and forests in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Gerard Wilke
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