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Tag: Old Bridge

  • Torun – Old Bridge (South Side)

    Torun – Old Bridge (South Side)

    I did post that I’d visit the south side of where the first bridge in Torun used to go from, so I did…..

    The approach to the old bridge. It doesn’t receive much traffic now, but I like the idea that thousands of people every year would have come down here to go over the bridge into the city of Torun.

    And here’s a little landing stage they’ve created, with a graphic which explains what some of the buildings in Torun are.

    It’s a pleasant view of Torun’s vista from the other side of the Vistula River.

    That’s where the old bridge would have connected to the other side, by the sensibly named Bridge Gate. Well, it’s not sensible now as there’s no bridge, but it was once sensible.

    The new road and pedestrian bridge (well, relatively new) that I used to cross over.

    An old photo which is displayed at the site, which I assume is when the road and pedestrian bridge above was destroyed during the Second World War.

  • Torun – Old Bridge (Love Locks)

    Torun – Old Bridge (Love Locks)

    The romantic notion of buying some lock, writing some message on it with a pen, attaching it to a piece of metal fence and chucking the key into the water clearly isn’t lost on the people of Torun….. I think they’re quite symbolic, they go rusty after a couple of years, like many relationships, so I understand the underlying message.

    Some people have spent a little more money than others on their lock purchase.

  • Torun – Old Bridge

    Torun – Old Bridge

    Today, this is just a view-point, but until the mid-nineteenth century is was the location of the city’s main bridge over the River Vistula. It’s also the location of where Bridge Gate, which still stands on the other side of the road, stood and allowed entrance into Torun for those crossing the bridge. Initially this was the point at the river where the ferryman would have plied his trade, with the first bridge being constructed here between 1497 and 1500. It was a complex building project as wooden piles had to be driven in across the water and the bridge could also be partly raised to let boats through.

    An information sign at the bridge.

    And a look across to the other side of the Vistula, where the other end of the bridge would have met the land. Maybe more on which another day if I make the effort to walk over to the other side as I know there’s a little monument there as well.