Lenora wooden bridge
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Rechle u Lenory Lenora wooden bridge | |
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.jpg) View from the road | |
| Coordinates | 48°55′20″N 13°48′23″E / 48.9222°N 13.8065°E |
| Crosses | Teplá Vltava |
| Locale | Lenora |
| Official name | Rechle u Lenory |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | 3 pylons |
| Total length | 27.77 metres (91.1 ft) |
| Width | 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) |
| Height | 3 metres (9.8 ft) |
| History | |
| Opened | 1870 |
| Location | |
 Interactive map of Rechle u Lenory Lenora wooden bridge | |
Lenora wooden bridge (official name: Rechle u Lenory) [1] is a wooden footbridge with hip roof over the Teplá Vltava river in Lenora in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The main purpose of the bridge was holding the floating wood. It served its function until the middle of the last century. The structure is located next to road I / 39 in the Volary direction. The structure was declared a cultural monument in 1958.
The covered wooden footbridge was built in 1870 and was used for the retention, counting, rectification and discharge of timber floating down the Vltava River from the Bohemian Forest, namely from the Boubín area, to the paper mills in Loučovice and Větřní.
The Czech name Rechle comes from the German word Rechen, which means 'rake'. And that describes what the function of the bridge used to be. There were openings in the floor of the bridge where beams were inserted into the river, and they were used similar to rakes for retaining the wood during low water. The logs were released when water level has risen again. The bridge carried on this function until the Lipno dam was built in 1959[2][1] an timber was not flown down the river anymore.
An overall repair of the bridge was carried out in 1985 on the initiative of the Lenora municipality. Although it survived the 2002 floods unscathed, it had to be renovated in 2014. More than three million crowns were raised from the European Union for the repair.[3][2]