The Stone Bridge of Regensburg by Robert Schüller
The old stones of the bridge, which was completed in 1146, have seen and carried a lot of history. The crusaders time in the Middle Ages for example. Only this huge stone bridge at the northernmost point of the Danube made it possible to cross the river quickly and safely for the huge army of the Crusaders. In 1189, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa himself led the third crusade. In Regensburg he boarded Danube ships with his court, ahead of them barges with food, tents and weapons glided down the Danube. The land army - up to 100,000 crusaders - marched on the right side of the river. It went via Vienna and Belgrade eastwards to the Black Sea and into the “Holy Land” to Asia Minor. Barbarossa then drowned in 1190 during the crusade in what is now Turkey.
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