Museumsbrücke

Museumsbrücke spans the Pegnitz in Nuremberg, linking St. Sebald and St. Lorenz between Main Market and Lorenzer Platz. Its sandstone-clad arches cross a pedestrian zone at the beginning of Königstraße. The bridge measures about 55 metres and crosses the river at an angle of approximately 80 degrees.

A wooden crossing stood here in the thirteenth century, connecting the Franciscan monastery with the city. Repeated floods destroyed that earlier wooden structure across the Pegnitz. In 1700, builders replaced it with a massive bridge featuring two stone arches. Baroque pulpit structures with wrought-iron grilles once decorated its central pier. Wartime damage led to rebuilding in 1954, which preserved the earlier appearance while doubling the width and adding three openings. Reinforced concrete lies beneath the visible sandstone cladding.

One western view reveals only two arches because the southern arch begins a water-diversion tunnel. That tunnel runs 140 metres beneath buildings and An der Fleischbrücke. Ten metres wide, it increases discharge to 430 cubic metres per second, forty times the average water volume.