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🏛️ Schorgastbrücke Wirsberg (Wernersbruck)

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🏛️ Schorgastbrücke Wirsberg (Wernersbruck)

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  • Location: Wirsberg, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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    January 15, 2018

    Hiking

    The Stone Bridge from 1711 over the Schorgast, also called "Wernersbruck", is a technical monument and a masterly craftsmanship with a high rarity value.
    For centuries, heavy horse-drawn wagons of copper ore and stones rolled over the bridge, defying for centuries all the water, ice drifts and even heavy tanks at the end of the Second World War.
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    May 31, 2026

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    Wirsberg also owes its historical significance to this crossing over the Schorgast. Located on important trade routes, such as the connection between Nuremberg, Plauen, and Leipzig, simple wooden bridges had …
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    May 30, 2026

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    The Steinener Brücke from 1711 over the Schorgast, also called Wernersbruck, is a technical monument of great rarity. The bridge was thoroughly renovated and restored in 1995 by the district of Kulmbach.
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    Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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    Elevation 430 m

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    Location: Wirsberg, Landkreis Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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