Germany 🇩🇪, Rakotzbruck Bridge

The extraordinary fascinating beauty of the bridge can be seen in one of the ancient palace arboretums in Germany. For more than a century, this ideal semicircular structure, created from basalt columns, amazes people with its geometry, giving rise to incredible legends shrouded in mysticism and superstition, and not only ancient ones. 

 It is the main attraction of the small Saxon town of Gablenz, in Germany. Back in 1844, Friedman Herman Retschke decided to set up an amazing English-style park on the shore of Lake Rakoff with beautiful bridges, alleys, mysterious grottoes, pyramids and artificial rocks. To implement such unusual plans, basalt slabs had to be imported from Switzerland and Bohemia, because there was no such rock in these places. And when there was a need to build a ferry across the lake located in the Kromlau Park, it was this stone that became the main building material.