Editing Neckar (section)

=== Bridges ===
Famous bridges include the [[Neckar Valley Bridge Weitingen]], near the town [[Horb am Neckar]] and the [[Old Bridge (Heidelberg)|Old Bridge]], in Heidelberg.

The ladder is amongst the best known historic bridges. It already existed in the High Middle Ages and was erected in today's form in 1788. Further historic Neckar bridges are the [[Neckarbrücke (Lauffen am Neckar)|Neckarbrücke]] in Lauffen am Neckar, in the core dating back to 1532, the Neckar bridge in Sulz constructed in 1742, the Pliensaubrücke, the Alte Agnesbrücke (old Agnes bridge) and the Ulrichsbrücke in Köngen. The oldest still remaining Neckar bridge is the [[Sehenswürdigkeiten der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar#Innere Brücke|Innere Brücke]] in [[Esslingen am Neckar|Esslingen]]. The 230 meter long construction was built in the 13th century and consists of eleven stone arches.<ref>Eckart Schörle: ''Neckarbrücken.'' [[Sutton Verlag]], 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-95400-128-6}}, Seite 62.</ref>

The [[Neckartalbrücke Heilbronn]] is with 1348 meter the longest Neckarbridge. The prestressed concrete construction built in 1967 is ailing and since early 2018 being replaced by a new bridge.<ref>{{cite web|title=Neue A6-Neckartalbrücke bei Neckarsulm: Startschuss für ein Meilenstein-Projekt|periodical=SWR.de|url=https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/bw/heilbronn/neue-a6-neckartalbruecke-bei-neckarsulm-startschuss-fuer-ein-meilenstein-projekt/-/id=1562/did=20964132/nid=1562/k15nvq/index.html|access-date=2018-06-03|date=2018-01-15}}</ref>

In [[Neckargröningen]] the 85-meter longest free spanning wooden pedestrian bridge was created in 1990. The unusual structure has a triangle profile.<ref>{{cite web|title=Neckar- und Remssteg, DE - Remseck|publisher=Hess GmbH|url=http://www.hess.eu/de/Vertreter/Tritschler/Referenzen_1/?id=86777653224118410|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> Die älteste Spannbeton-Eisenbahnbrücke Deutschlands – erbaut 1957 – steht in Heilbronn.<ref>Eckart Schörle: ''Neckarbrücken.'' Sutton Verlag, 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-95400-128-6}}, Seite 97.</ref>

In the year 1905, there were already 119 bridges over the Neckar, of which, with a total length of 230 meters, the longest was the [[Neckargartacher Neckarbrücke]] built between 1903 and 1905. In 1985 the heavy waterway was crossed by 159 railroad-, street- and pedestrian-bridges and also by 126 overhead power lines and 67 [[Düker]]. In total there are today about 400 Neckar bridges of various sizes, half of it on the upper and half of it on the middle and lower reaches. <!—counted on the OpenStreetMap-Map -->

{{See also|List of Neckar bridges}}