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Old Bridge (Heidelberg)

Alte Brücke · Karl-Theodor-Brücke

The Old Bridge (Alte Brücke), also called the Karl Theodor Bridge, is the stone arch bridge over the Neckar in Heidelberg.

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This record is the bridge itself, which Wikidata classes as a stone arch bridge over the Neckar in Heidelberg. Heidelberg's tourism board, Heidelberg Marketing, calls it the Karl Theodor Bridge, better known as the Old Bridge, and says that it and its wooden predecessors formed the main northern access to the city, protected by the bridge gate. The city's own sights page names the castle and the historic Old Bridge together among Heidelberg's sights.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg is a city on the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg. The city's own site says it was first documented in 1196, was laid out to a plan and had its castle built in the 13th century, and entered its heyday as capital of the Electoral Palatinate, not least with the founding of its university in 1386; XTOUR maps Heidelberg Castle, the Old Bridge and the Church of the Holy Spirit in the city.

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