The Triple Bridge of Pontarfynach

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In Wales, is a small village named Pontarfynach, meaning “the bridge on the Mynach”. But its name is a little bit of a misnomer: there are actually three bridges!

The original and the lowest bridge was built in the 1000s CE. When that was thought to be unstable, a second stone bridge was built over the gorge directly atop the original bridge. That was in the mid-1700s. The original bridge was not demolished; rather it was used to support scaffolding during construction. The third and the final bridge is an iron bridge constructed in 1901.

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earth-land:

Rakotzbrücke

Devil Bridge, Germany

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.

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. 

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