Teufelsbrücke
Teufelsbrücke is a stone pedestrian viaduct in Potsdam-Bornstedt, set within a landscape park designed by Peter Joseph Lenné. Five arches carry the bridge about eight metres above the Teufelsgraben, linking Eichenallee with Lendelallee and the Belvedere on Klausberg with Katharinenholz.
Ludwig Persius designed the bridge in 1843, using Rüdersdorf limestone and the form of ancient Roman viaducts. The wider park project, commissioned by Frederick William IV, connected Krongut Bornstedt with Schloss Lindstedt, while the crossing helped soldiers return from manoeuvres to the Bornstedter Feld training grounds. Frederick II’s reign saw the drainage ditch created to control overflow from Bornstedter See into the Golmer Luch, but underground clay pipes replaced it in 1891.
Today, the dry channel beneath the five arches gives walkers a quiet route through Lenné’s blend of planted landscape and architecture.
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