The bridges in this video are certainly NOT the only remaining examples of bridges with houses on them. Just in Germany alone I can think of several more examples. For instance: The "Innere Brücke" at Esslingen and the (simply stunning) "Altes Rathaus" in Bamberg.
@@patriciabristow-johnson5951 I was wondering if there was one in the US -- thanks! www.google.com/maps/@44.2603704,-72.5765379,3a,89.3y,201.12h,94.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sI7j7TlbHYCTM-N70NbvV3w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Exactly! Missing some bridges is fine, but missing the one in Bamberg? Also just claiming to show all of the remaining ones and missing so many? Very strange.
There's one in the town on the other side of the river from my wife's village in Yibin in China. It's a pretty modern affair and not very good looking.....
I live in 's-Hertogenbosch. It is in the Netherlands and is called Small Venetië by some people, simply because the inner city was built over a flowing river which you can take a tour on as tourist. The tour will take you through the narrow river that is partly above ground but mostly has been built over. Even a church is built over this river. The river is called de BinnenDieze.
I think the problem is the definition. There would be much more buildings on top of elevated arched structures. There is for example the "Passetto die Borgo" in Rome which passes over streets and even the dry moat of the Castel Sant'Angelo, but not over a river or stream. Some mills have been build over streams, but have never been called themself as "building on a bridge". If you would make the definition, that the bridge has to be open for public use, you also have to exclude the "Château de Chenonceau". It is an elevated structure, which goes over a river, but there has never been a public street. Small rivers and streams in bigger cities have been covered up completly and sometimes buildings have been put on top, but you won't call them buildings on bridges...
@@red.aries1444 Correct! In 's-Hertogenbosch (NL) there are two rivers that were once the town moats, now covered with arches and buildings, even a church. The rivers remained in use until today while the 'new' moats of 1350 were made along the new town walls.
Few more examples from Germany and Turkey: Altes Rathaus (Bamberg), Gewölbe (Wismar), Stadtbrille (Amberg), Heilig-Geist-Spital (Nuremberg), Irgandi-Bridge (Bursa), Cheers!
Less well-known, there is also the Hudebrücke in Stade, Germany. It marks the south end of the town's historic hanseatic harbour, at the Fischmarkt. The first bridge he showed really reminded me of that one. Just walking along the street, you don't even realize you are on a bridge. It just looks like a street next to the edge of a historic harbour, with the harbour on one side and a continuous row of houses on the other side. But if you look from the side, you see that the river flows into the harbour there, and that the street is in fact a bridge. And when you look at the back side of the row of houses, from the next bridge a bit further up the river, you get a similar view to the one of the first bridge in the video, with two houses being built right above the water.
Bullshit: bigger bridges always have bridge spawns. Look on the examples of this youtube video here. So yes, it is ON the bridge and incredible beautiful. images.app.goo.gl/EAqaX53EZHk1fqhKA
I've always thought it would have been incredibly cool to have lived on the old London Bridge, a kind of mini metropolis on the water!! Another great video Tez, keep it up mate!! ✌
I think in the city I live in, 's-Hertogenbosch, we have at least three contenders, all of which though are very small. Nieuwstraat, Vughterstraat, and the Sint Josephstraat. Plus a church that arches over a navigable water way, which is probably the only one in the world.....maybe 😅
Dennis, without even reading through the comments i almost copied your comment. "I live in 's-Hertogenbosch. It is in the Netherlands and is called Small Venetië by some people, simply because the inner city was built over a flowing river which you can take a tour on as tourist. The tour will take you through the narrow river that is partly above ground but mostly has been built over. Even a church is built over this river. The river is called de BinnenDieze." Funny to see other Bosschenaren getting this stuff in their recommended videos.... or at least finding it and clicking on it and commenting on it.
Please keep these videos coming. I've never given an ounce of thought to buildings on bridges. I enjoyed yet another one of your videos, As I always do. Thanks.
This is so interesting! I only knew that the old London bridge had shops on it, it’s so neat to see there are still bridges with shops around today! So neat! Thanks again for your interesting content as usual!
Currently, and for the past 30-or-so years, in the city of Reno, Nevada, USA, there is a large drugstore built on a bridge straddling I-80 between Virginia St. and University Way. Great video!
Edinburgh’s famous South Bridge; a modern highway of its day, built to link the Old Town High Street with the University buildings on the south side of the city.
@@verynearlyinteresting You don't need to apologise. Not many people know that it is a bridge. But it is and I've been there just under it on the Edinburgh Vaults trip. Greetings
The overhanging upper stories on timber framed buildings gave more space on the upper floors but the jettying also served another purpose, it shed the water away from the lower stories, an important consideration with buildings constructed from wood and plaster.
Enjoyed this episode. I’ve always been fascinated by bridges like the ones presented. Are you planning on making a Part 2? Or 3 or 4 or…? I’d love that.
@@davidcampbell520 Hi David, thanks very much for your comment. I’d very much like to make a video about old London Bridge!! I’ll get that done in this next month or two hopefully!
Everyone keeps saying he "missed one" so maybe a part 2 would be good. I really enjoyed this! Wish people wouldn't moan so much over nothing though when this is *brilliant free entertainment!* 👏
What an amazing video! The concept of houses on bridges is so unique and captivating. We really enjoyed seeing these incredible structures. Thanks for sharing with us! We join your channel!Best wishes,Chiara & Donato Fuoridalsentiero
I had to leave for awhile but now I’m back! Happy to see how your channel has grown! I have some catching up to do! Your content is indeed Very Interesting and Very Entertaining! This comment is from an old woman living in the state of Florida in the USA.
@@BarbaraKelley347 How nice to see you again Barbara - I remember you and I’m so glad you’re back. Enjoy catching up and I send my best wishes to you in the lovely state of Florida. Tez
How are you defining a bridge with building(s) built on it? If you’re going to include the Château de Chenonceau, then what about the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg, part of which is built on a bridge over an arm of the river Pegnitz? Or the various surviving water mills that are built on bridges over the streams that provide their power?
😂Ah, I was waiting for the Ponte Vecchio and there it is, in all its glory, 🇮🇹🎵 accompanied by a little Mozart.. 😁 Loved the vid, Tez.. very definitely fascinating to see such a mix of bridges and colourful higgledy piggledy sqiggly buildings from around Europe.. 👍
Thank you so much (as always!) for your lovely comment!! I’ve just been informed by another viewer that there’s a replica of Ponte Vecchio in Las Vegas! I had no idea … I would have included that as well! Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting I just checked it out, Tez.. they created an artificial lake and an artificial "little Italy" in the heart of the Nevada desert! 🤦🏻♀️ Nooooo, please!😆
I wish you had mentioned the fact that the Ponte Vecchio carries a private covered walkway that nobles could use between downtown Florence and the palace on the other side of the Arno River. It goes through a church on the palace side with a viewing gallery so nobles could attend Mass without being bothered.
I was surprised. I always thought the dwellings on a bridge were squatters who hawked the place for solicitation of tolls. They were civilised tenants who paid more rather than robbers. ❤❤❤😂😂😂
The bridge buildings seems cluttered and unplanned in medieval ways. It was actually a carefully planned financial tool to make money for a city. Very advanced.
In the Dutch city of 's Hertogenbosch, a huge amount of houses are built on overvaulted rivers with streets. Over a thousand houses on bridges. There are regular boat trips for tourists over the rivers, beautiful to see these house-bridges from below.
Great video as always, lots of research, reminds me of one of your other video's (hope it was by you), we see these bridges as great masterpieces of their time and expert builders etc (which they were), but we forget about the ones that haven't survived so well, so we get a bias remembering how great they are, i know you mentioned 'London Bridge'. Really enjoyed this video 👍
Nice video, thanks! There's just one thing I don't like about it: the high volume of the music; it's competing with your speech which is the most important thing second to the imagery, therefore the musical intersections should be lower than your voice. It's like making a pause between sentences. Having always loud music in every pause is like ending every single sentence and paragraph with an exclamation mark. Just my thoughts on this, I hope it helps you improve your work.
What a wonderfully interesting subject in this content so hats off to you for its selection. It is strange that the Londo Bridge is now in Arizona, minis the buildings, and doing what the buyer intended after paying almost 2.5 million dollars for it and paying for its stone-by-stone transportation plus reconstruction for an additional cost of $7 million. WOW! Great video, Jersey Bill
I was interested. Well, very nearly. Okay amigo. I've been offline for a couple of weeks (very nearly) but loving to see your inexorably march forward. More power to you amigo. Didn't see a beer though. Was I mot paying attention?
@verynearlyinteresting Things not great the last couple of weeks. Phone packed in, tent destroyed, but good friends helping out and I'm back on my feet. New video shortly. (Hopefully)
This was amazing to me, I have never seen or even knew of such things, dwellings and business on bridges. You have to admit it’s a brilliant idea especially in its time. Europe is an amazing place with its age and tremendous history. So much has happened in Europe it would take a lifetime for someone to try and visit all its history. Well, I loved this episode and this topic was I’d say, very interesting for me. I love Stuff like this and I’m sure many others do as well and we have you to thank for bringing it to us.
@@verynearlyinteresting you are so welcome Tez. It’s hard not to say nice things about work that obviously has a lot of hard work put into it. You obviously have to always do a lot of research. And then in some cases, I’m sure, double check that so you do justice to those things you discuss justice, truth and accuracy. Now, the cheery on the top. Presentation, you have great technique for delivering your material. You place me there in the situation with your details and, I take a short mental vacation! And I believe most people who know how to listen to detail conversation do as well. So like I said it’s thanks to you we have these opportunities. Thank you my friend! (Sorry for the reading lesson) I just want to make sure I get my point across.
Love this!! ❤ Absolutely fascinating! Had no idea about London Bridge - just goes to show, nothing changes… our taxes get frittered away by the government of them!
Here in Rochester, New York, USA our Main Street bridge had buildings on top until the late 1960s. We still have one remaining building on a bridge which was formerly a train station and now houses a popular restaurant.
What a fun and interesting video! But... *all* the bridges with buildings on them? Nope, you missed (at least) one, near Las Vegas, Nevada, No kidding! There is a replica of the Ponte Vecchio (with occupied buildings) over Lake Las Vegas, between the city of Las Vegas and Lake Mead.
In the Netherlands, some of these are worth mentioning, depending on the definition. For example there are 20+ watergates left in the Netherlands. I would consider them buildings on a bridge. These were old citygates in the Netherlands from where boats could enter a city. The Koppelpoort, Waterpoort Sneek and the Oostpoort Delft are very nice examples. There are also some modern buildings such as the Entrepotbrug in Amsterdam. Other examples in The Netherlands: Amsterdam: The Waag in Amsterdam on the Nieuwmarkt is a bridge since the 15th century. It isn't visible as a bridge nowadays and the bridge is very low, so the water is only used for watermanagement and maintenance Amersfoort: 't Sluisje (house on a bridge) Langestraat (shop) House (now shop at the Kamperbinnenpoort) Waterpoort De Monnikendam (build at the same time as the iconic Koppelpoort around 1425) Utrecht: Hoog catharijne, modern shopping mall with a canal under it Den Bosch: Binnendieze - small, but several waterways that is going under a lot of old buildings
When my family temporarily moved to spain, I had a hobby exploring underground culvert networks when I was 11/12, alone. They were huge, kilometre long tunnels that transported seasonal rivers under the city, constructed in the same manner as a bridge, with abutments, beams and all. Two caveats being they were not only flush with city floor level, but they were bridges constructed extremely long. I have seen this a couple times now, once in spain (a vintage towerblock) constructed over a culvert and in my home town, a row of some extremely old houses built over the river. I have also seen something online where a woman’s lounge floor had fallen into a (massive) culvert network below, and she had done nothing about it. I think the council got involved which sparked debates about who pays for it.
For many years I lived near St Ives in Cambridgeshire. There is a small chapel on the old bridge over the Great Ouse, and it is occasionally open to visitors. It's Cromwell country, and during the civil war the roundheads demolished a couple of bridge arches and installed a drawbridge. The arches were later rebuilt, and the difference in style from the originals is obvious.
You missed out several in England. For instance Cleveland House in Sydney Road, Bath, was built across the Kennet and Avon Canal. In Manchester a lock keepers house on Chorlton Street was built across the Rochdale Canal. In Mytholmroyld, West Yorkshire, a house was built halfway onto a bridge over the Rochdale Canal. In Bradford-on-Avon a small chapel was built on the bridge across the River Avon. It was later used as a lock-up. I'm sure other people can think of more examples.
I have an other example, there is a bridge in the town of Bar le Duc, in eastern France in the region of Lorraine that is called le Pont Notre Dame, and it used to be a bridge where houses were built on. Today, the houses are gone, but, there is a chapel that still remains to this day. During WW1, since Bar le Duc was the town that furnished the supplies to Verdun, the germans bombarded the town and the bridge, that was almost completly destroyed, but the only part of the bridge that survived was were the chapel was standing. There is a famous picture that can be found of what was remaning of the bridge after the attack for those that are interested
You should have had a workshop drill the microphone into the handle of a walking stick- speaking to the handle of a walking stick would make you look wise and distinguished and a Gentry
I visited Aarhus, Denmark this past summer. There’s a whole city block reaching over the river on Thorvaldsensgade. In Degerfors, Sweden, the steel mill sits on top of the Letälven. However, that’s more a case of ducting the river underground, so that may be considered cheating.
Very interesting video! Also interesting is the town of Monschau, Germany Whilst not technically buildings on bridges, a lot of the streets and buildings completely run over the rivers intersecting there. I guess you could say the rivers have been covered in some parts, but it's a difficult one! I think technically the 'Gasterij de Koffiemolen' in Valkenburg, The Netherlands also counts as a building across a bridge, though the river isn't nearly as wide as the ones mentioned in your video. As a sidenote about Narbonne; We went there earlier this year, and the street was operating normally, no signs of closure or works! (I'm also very happy to be on streetview with the bridge, on Cr Mirabeau, hah)
The thing about a perfect arch is that the more weight it has over top of it, the stronger it is. As long as the foundation isn't moving you're fine. Roman aqueducts have heavy top bands for the channel too.
Whilst scrolling TH-cam I immediately stopped to view this video to see if the Bridge Houses of Bad Kreuznach were going to garner a mention. Many U.S. Servicemen & women as well a their families were deployed to Bad Kreuznach at Rose Barracks 8th I.D. and are well acquainted with the Bridge Houses. Good memories.
Interesting video! The original Bristol Bridge over the Avon was a smaller version of London Bridge with shops on both sides but sadly that's long gone. Also, there are bridges with gates and guard towers at various places in Europe (including a small one in Monmouth), but that's a slightly different category - maybe an idea for part 2?
I used to live in a flat over a railway bridge. Commercial on the ground floor, and flats above. The worst thing about it was that Network Rail could only do engineering when the line was closed, between 1am and 5am. The noise generated from heavy machinery was impossible to sleep through.
I came expecting 50 comments saying “Actually London Bridge still exists…” and it does exist! It was bought by some real estate guy in Arizona and it was shipped brick by brick and rebuilt on Lake Havasu where it still stands today. I’ve never seen it because, well you’d have to go to Arizona, but I do believe it’s there. :)
@@ososkid You are absolutely correct but the bridge in Arizona isn’t THE bridge. The London Bridge in AZ was built in 1831 at the same time that the medieval bridge was being demolished. Thanks so much for your comment and thanks for watching. Tez
@ Oh yeah, you’re right. Now that you say that I feel like I remember (or had forgotten) that proviso being part of the original story I had read about this. Honestly, I think this tid bit of trivia might have come to me from “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader”. This makes more sense. The old wooden bridge would neither have traveled or reassembled very well.
There is a modern version of this in Columbus Ohio. An interstate highway cut thru an area containing the convention center and a shopping/dining area. The solution was to build a. Cap over the highway and add shops and restaurants making it more than just crossing a bridge. It is now 20+ years old. The Cap at Union Station is a $7.8 million, 25,500-square-foot retail development reconnecting downtown Columbus, Ohio with the Short North arts and entertainment district. The Cap is located along High Street, a major thoroughfare running north from downtown Columbus and the Columbus Convention Center. The project is carried above I-670 - Columbus' Inner Belt Highway - on three parallel bridges. A central bridge carries through traffic across the highway, while the two flanking structures support the retail buildings. The retail buildings are light b-weight structures clad in fiberglass-reinforced plastic designed to be reminiscent of Columbus Union Depot, the former train station designed by Daniel Burnham in the late 1890s that was replaced by the Convention Center in 1976.
There is actually quite a number on a bridge in Bolton on Knowsley Street, however it is bascially impossible to tell as the entire bridge is covered over by development around it.
You can drop the word "nearly". It is very interesting. It's a rare construction, but there are many more I didn't know about. The closest thing to a house on a bridge in the 21st century is a fleeting moment, when a travel trailer or an RV crosses a bridge.
They are quirky in the best kind of way. I think that you still missed at least one small bridge with a timber frame building on it. I guess that it's no coincidence as they're light and benefit from a stone base.
In the US they build highway service centers on a bridge over the highway. Filled with shops, food, and restrooms. I know of 3 off the top of my head (one may be in Canada) so im sure there are more.
You missed a key reason to building on bridges, certainly in the case of Pulteney Bridge. Expansion. Back when Pulteney Bridge was built, the river divided the popular, wealthy part of Bath; the city centre, and the perceptively poorer regions over the river. So what do you do to attract people over the river as the city expands? You build a bridge lined with shops, leading to an incredibly opulant new housing development, Great Pulteney Street - designed with an extra wide, luxurious street, beautiful terraced townhouses, and a grand building (Now, the Holburn Museum) at the far end. By building shops on the bridge, the (seemingly successful) intention was to mask the fact that people were venturing over the river when travelling between their plush new townhouse and the city centre and thus, an expanded city is born.
You missed the place where they build so many over a single small river that when traveling by boat you go underneath many houses. All the houses over "De Binnendieze" in the city "Den Bosch" also called "s'-Hertogenbosch". It is actually quite the tourist attraction and i am surprised when talking with so much passion about this subject that you missed this. The part of the "De Binnendieze" that still exists is about 4km in length and has 26 bridges and about 3/4 of those have houses on them. Original the river was about 12km long and had about 175 bridges and many of these had buildings on them.
The bridges in this video are certainly NOT the only remaining examples of bridges with houses on them.
Just in Germany alone I can think of several more examples.
For instance:
The "Innere Brücke" at Esslingen and the (simply stunning) "Altes Rathaus" in Bamberg.
State Street Bridge (over the North Branch Winooski River) in Montpelier VT!!!
@@patriciabristow-johnson5951 I was wondering if there was one in the US -- thanks! www.google.com/maps/@44.2603704,-72.5765379,3a,89.3y,201.12h,94.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sI7j7TlbHYCTM-N70NbvV3w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Exactly! Missing some bridges is fine, but missing the one in Bamberg? Also just claiming to show all of the remaining ones and missing so many? Very strange.
There's one in the town on the other side of the river from my wife's village in Yibin in China. It's a pretty modern affair and not very good looking.....
I live in 's-Hertogenbosch.
It is in the Netherlands and is called Small Venetië by some people, simply because the inner city was built over a flowing river which you can take a tour on as tourist.
The tour will take you through the narrow river that is partly above ground but mostly has been built over.
Even a church is built over this river.
The river is called de BinnenDieze.
It's quite fascinating that almost all of these bridges are in the same 3 countries, with the only exception being the one in Italy.
Yes. I'm sure there are others outside these countries, many in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and elsewhere in Asia.
I think the problem is the definition.
There would be much more buildings on top of elevated arched structures. There is for example the "Passetto die Borgo" in Rome which passes over streets and even the dry moat of the Castel Sant'Angelo, but not over a river or stream. Some mills have been build over streams, but have never been called themself as "building on a bridge".
If you would make the definition, that the bridge has to be open for public use, you also have to exclude the "Château de Chenonceau". It is an elevated structure, which goes over a river, but there has never been a public street. Small rivers and streams in bigger cities have been covered up completly and sometimes buildings have been put on top, but you won't call them buildings on bridges...
@@red.aries1444 Correct! In 's-Hertogenbosch (NL) there are two rivers that were once the town moats, now covered with arches and buildings, even a church. The rivers remained in use until today while the 'new' moats of 1350 were made along the new town walls.
there are loads in china, vietnam, thailand, malaysia, etc.
There’s at least 1 more over a river in the UK he didn’t cover, so it can;t be an exhaustive list.
Few more examples from Germany and Turkey: Altes Rathaus (Bamberg), Gewölbe (Wismar), Stadtbrille (Amberg), Heilig-Geist-Spital (Nuremberg), Irgandi-Bridge (Bursa), Cheers!
Altes rathaus in Bamberg isn't on a bridge, it's between 2 bridge spans
@@FinneasJedidiah Same could be said about the bridge in Bad Kreuznach though.
Less well-known, there is also the Hudebrücke in Stade, Germany. It marks the south end of the town's historic hanseatic harbour, at the Fischmarkt.
The first bridge he showed really reminded me of that one.
Just walking along the street, you don't even realize you are on a bridge. It just looks like a street next to the edge of a historic harbour, with the harbour on one side and a continuous row of houses on the other side. But if you look from the side, you see that the river flows into the harbour there, and that the street is in fact a bridge. And when you look at the back side of the row of houses, from the next bridge a bit further up the river, you get a similar view to the one of the first bridge in the video, with two houses being built right above the water.
Bullshit: bigger bridges always have bridge spawns. Look on the examples of this youtube video here. So yes, it is ON the bridge and incredible beautiful.
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I've always thought it would have been incredibly cool to have lived on the old London Bridge, a kind of mini metropolis on the water!! Another great video Tez, keep it up mate!! ✌
Thanks Keith! And yes I agree what you're saying re London Bridge! Tez :)
You forgot my hometown of Dordrecht in the netherlands because we have our old townhall build on a bridge above the canal
I’ve just googled it … what a shame I missed that one! I missed so many out I may be able to do a second video. Tez
I think in the city I live in, 's-Hertogenbosch, we have at least three contenders, all of which though are very small. Nieuwstraat, Vughterstraat, and the Sint Josephstraat. Plus a church that arches over a navigable water way, which is probably the only one in the world.....maybe 😅
Dennis, without even reading through the comments i almost copied your comment.
"I live in 's-Hertogenbosch.
It is in the Netherlands and is called Small Venetië by some people, simply because the inner city was built over a flowing river which you can take a tour on as tourist.
The tour will take you through the narrow river that is partly above ground but mostly has been built over.
Even a church is built over this river.
The river is called de BinnenDieze."
Funny to see other Bosschenaren getting this stuff in their recommended videos.... or at least finding it and clicking on it and commenting on it.
Engels praten tegen je mede Nederlander? 😅
I love houses on bridges. They just look incredible.
Please keep these videos coming. I've never given an ounce of thought to buildings on bridges. I enjoyed yet another one of your videos, As I always do. Thanks.
Thank you spaceman - it's so nice to see you again! Tez
This is so interesting! I only knew that the old London bridge had shops on it, it’s so neat to see there are still bridges with shops around today! So neat! Thanks again for your interesting content as usual!
Hi Stephanie! Thanks, as always, for your lovely comment. Tez :)
Currently, and for the past 30-or-so years, in the city of Reno, Nevada, USA, there is a large drugstore built on a bridge straddling I-80 between Virginia St. and University Way. Great video!
I’ve clearly missed a lot out 🙈. Thank you so much for your comment. Tez
Edinburgh’s famous South Bridge; a modern highway of its day, built to link the Old Town High Street with the University buildings on the south side of the city.
My apologies for missing that one 🙈
@@verynearlyinteresting You don't need to apologise. Not many people know that it is a bridge. But it is and I've been there just under it on the Edinburgh Vaults trip. Greetings
@@PrzemyslawSadulawow amazing
Edinburgh also has George IV Bridge and the southern part of North Bridge. The clues are in the names! 😂
Ambleside house over the bridge was the first home to a couple with 11 children!!!
Why build on the bridge? NO GROUND RENT!
Great episode
Oh wow I didn’t know that Paul! Thank you so much for your kind comment as always. Tez 😊
The overhanging upper stories on timber framed buildings gave more space on the upper floors but the jettying also served another purpose, it shed the water away from the lower stories, an important consideration with buildings constructed from wood and plaster.
@@The_Butler_Did_It Oh wow, I didn’t know that. Thanks! Tez
Funny aside:
Krämerbrücke and Pont des Marchands both translate to Merchant's Bridge or Bridge of Shopkeepers.
Because that's what they are.
despite a series of devastating floods, a number of buildings are still on bridges in ellicott city, maryland, usa. cheers!
Another great video, love this channel
Thank you so much Sharon 😊. Tez
This could become one of my favorite channels.
That’s very kind of you to say John, thank you. Tez
Can’t believe that you didn’t have the Rialto Bridge in Venice!!
I did consider putting it in the video but I left it out because it’s a covered bridge. Tez
Enjoyed this episode. I’ve always been fascinated by bridges like the ones presented. Are you planning on making a Part 2? Or 3 or 4 or…? I’d love that.
@@davidcampbell520 Hi David, thanks very much for your comment. I’d very much like to make a video about old London Bridge!! I’ll get that done in this next month or two hopefully!
2:24 It's known as what now?
Lose the watermark.. it's distracting
Just ignore it m8
It's not distracting. It's a clever way of not getting your video stolen
Good to see glory hole in lincoln covered. Pass it every day
@@markwood1846 Oh wow, what an amazing town you live/work in!! I loved my visit there. Thanks so much for commenting Mark. Tez
Salisbury has two bridges with buildings in the Maltings. There are clearly many more examples on Earth.
Great video, keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! That’s very kind of you. Tez
Everyone keeps saying he "missed one" so maybe a part 2 would be good. I really enjoyed this! Wish people wouldn't moan so much over nothing though when this is *brilliant free entertainment!* 👏
Thank you 😊
I'm also in to watch a second part. I start following - just in case 😉
There's a few railway bridges dotted around London with station platform buildings on (there's one in Lavender Hill). Does that count?
That's a good point!
The most obvious (modern) example is Blackfriars station, which now crosses the Thames.
We should bring bridge houses and shops back
Good point - that would be great! Tez
What an amazing video! The concept of houses on bridges is so unique and captivating. We really enjoyed seeing these incredible structures. Thanks for sharing with us! We join your channel!Best wishes,Chiara & Donato Fuoridalsentiero
@@fuoridalsentiero Thank you so much for that lovely comment. That’s so kind of you. Tez
I had to leave for awhile but now I’m back! Happy to see how your channel has grown! I have some catching up to do! Your content is indeed Very Interesting and Very Entertaining! This comment is from an old woman living in the state of Florida in the USA.
@@BarbaraKelley347 How nice to see you again Barbara - I remember you and I’m so glad you’re back. Enjoy catching up and I send my best wishes to you in the lovely state of Florida. Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting I certainly will! 👵🏼❤️
Great video, Tez. I felt sure you were going to say they'd need a bridging loan for the repairs to the Pont Des Marchands.
@@ghood7445 Why didn’t I think of that 😆😆😆.
I hope the remaining ones stay as protected landmarks. These are cool things and there aren’t many left.
Good point, I hope so too
Great job
Thanks Brian. Tez 😊
How are you defining a bridge with building(s) built on it? If you’re going to include the Château de Chenonceau, then what about the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Nuremberg, part of which is built on a bridge over an arm of the river Pegnitz? Or the various surviving water mills that are built on bridges over the streams that provide their power?
Really enjoyed this!! 👍Big thumbs up!!
I subscribed!!
My favorite is the Krämerbrücke. That is so beautiful, and could be mistaken for a normal street in several surviving medieval cities in Germany.
Thanks for another Very Nearly Interesting Video. Love it as I love all of them.
Thank you so much John! It’s always nice to see your comments, Tez 😊
😂Ah, I was waiting for the Ponte Vecchio and there it is, in all its glory, 🇮🇹🎵 accompanied by a little Mozart.. 😁 Loved the vid, Tez.. very definitely fascinating to see such a mix of bridges and colourful higgledy piggledy sqiggly buildings from around Europe.. 👍
Thank you so much (as always!) for your lovely comment!! I’ve just been informed by another viewer that there’s a replica of Ponte Vecchio in Las Vegas! I had no idea … I would have included that as well! Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting I didn't know that either, Tez! Hmmm, _There can be only ONE!_ 😆
@@pimpozza Definitely😆
@@verynearlyinteresting I just checked it out, Tez.. they created an artificial lake and an artificial "little Italy" in the heart of the Nevada desert! 🤦🏻♀️ Nooooo, please!😆
I wish you had mentioned the fact that the Ponte Vecchio carries a private covered walkway that nobles could use between downtown Florence and the palace on the other side of the Arno River. It goes through a church on the palace side with a viewing gallery so nobles could attend Mass without being bothered.
I was surprised. I always thought the dwellings on a bridge were squatters who hawked the place for solicitation of tolls. They were civilised tenants who paid more rather than robbers. ❤❤❤😂😂😂
The bridge buildings seems cluttered and unplanned in medieval ways. It was actually a carefully planned financial tool to make money for a city. Very advanced.
In the Dutch city of 's Hertogenbosch, a huge amount of houses are built on overvaulted rivers with streets. Over a thousand houses on bridges.
There are regular boat trips for tourists over the rivers, beautiful to see these house-bridges from below.
The bridge streets across Edinburgh Old Town might have been worth a look.
@@tamasmarcuis4455 Very good point Tamas. Tez
Lovely to see the High Bridge in my home city of Lincoln. ❤
I've visited several times. Such a great city! 👍
You have an incredible home city Lewis! Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting Thank you! I hope you had chance to explore more than just the river. Steep Hill, Castle Square etc, all lovely.
@@LewisLittle66 Yes we had an overnight stay just by the castle! (Steep Hill - I’m still recovering 🥵!)
Great video as always, lots of research, reminds me of one of your other video's (hope it was by you), we see these bridges as great masterpieces of their time and expert builders etc (which they were), but we forget about the ones that haven't survived so well, so we get a bias remembering how great they are, i know you mentioned 'London Bridge'.
Really enjoyed this video 👍
Yes the video on survivorship bias! Very good point. Tez
Nice video, thanks!
There's just one thing I don't like about it: the high volume of the music; it's competing with your speech which is the most important thing second to the imagery, therefore the musical intersections should be lower than your voice. It's like making a pause between sentences.
Having always loud music in every pause is like ending every single sentence and paragraph with an exclamation mark.
Just my thoughts on this, I hope it helps you improve your work.
Fair point … I really appreciate your comment, thank you. Tez
What a wonderfully interesting subject in this content so hats off to you for its selection. It is strange that the Londo Bridge is now in Arizona, minis the buildings, and doing what the buyer intended after paying almost 2.5 million dollars for it and paying for its stone-by-stone transportation plus reconstruction for an additional cost of $7 million. WOW! Great video, Jersey Bill
Thanks Jersey Bill!!!! 😊Tez
I was interested. Well, very nearly.
Okay amigo. I've been offline for a couple of weeks (very nearly) but loving to see your inexorably march forward.
More power to you amigo.
Didn't see a beer though. Was I mot paying attention?
Hi DM! No beer this time, sadly! Hope you're well DM, Tez
@verynearlyinteresting Things not great the last couple of weeks. Phone packed in, tent destroyed, but good friends helping out and I'm back on my feet. New video shortly. (Hopefully)
This was amazing to me, I have never seen or even knew of such things, dwellings and business on bridges. You have to admit it’s a brilliant idea especially in its time. Europe is an amazing place with its age and tremendous history. So much has happened in Europe it would take a lifetime for someone to try and visit all its history. Well, I loved this episode and this topic was I’d say, very interesting for me. I love Stuff like this and I’m sure many others do as well and we have you to thank for bringing it to us.
Thank you so much Brian, that's such a lovely comment to read. Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting you are so welcome Tez. It’s hard not to say nice things about work that obviously has a lot of hard work put into it. You obviously have to always do a lot of research. And then in some cases, I’m sure, double check that so you do justice to those things you discuss justice, truth and accuracy. Now, the cheery on the top. Presentation, you have great technique for delivering your material. You place me there in the situation with your details and, I take a short mental vacation! And I believe most people who know how to listen to detail conversation do as well. So like I said it’s thanks to you we have these opportunities. Thank you my friend! (Sorry for the reading lesson) I just want to make sure I get my point across.
Always enjoy your videos. And I learn something too!
That's so nice to hear, thank you. Tez
Love this!!
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Absolutely fascinating!
Had no idea about London Bridge - just goes to show, nothing changes… our taxes get frittered away by the government of them!
Thanks Lucy!! X
You missed south bridge in Edinburgh?? Come on mate.
*Come on mate!* Appreciate the wonderful entertainment! 😆
The townhall of Dordrecht is built on a bridge that crosses the canal! Very old too
those vodafone ads and the modern (read: ugly) storefront on the nice old building truly are an eyesore!!
For now, you never know when an architectural style or technique gets revived
Very interesting video. Greatings from Bad Kreuznach 😊
@@McDALN Oh wow!!!! Thank you so much for commenting!!! I also send my greetings to you at Bad Kreuznach all the way from Stafford. Tez 😊
Here in Rochester, New York, USA our Main Street bridge had buildings on top until the late 1960s. We still have one remaining building on a bridge which was formerly a train station and now houses a popular restaurant.
What a fun and interesting video! But... *all* the bridges with buildings on them? Nope, you missed (at least) one, near Las Vegas, Nevada, No kidding! There is a replica of the Ponte Vecchio (with occupied buildings) over Lake Las Vegas, between the city of Las Vegas and Lake Mead.
@@MartinVeneroso Hi Martin. I’ve just googled it … WOW! How could I have missed THAT 🤷♂️🙈. Thanks for your comment, really appreciated. Tez
I never knew this, Martin!! I just looked it up.. fascinating! I must admit, I am not happy about it.. 😆🇮🇹
In the Netherlands, some of these are worth mentioning, depending on the definition. For example there are 20+ watergates left in the Netherlands. I would consider them buildings on a bridge. These were old citygates in the Netherlands from where boats could enter a city. The Koppelpoort, Waterpoort Sneek and the Oostpoort Delft are very nice examples.
There are also some modern buildings such as the Entrepotbrug in Amsterdam.
Other examples in The Netherlands:
Amsterdam:
The Waag in Amsterdam on the Nieuwmarkt is a bridge since the 15th century. It isn't visible as a bridge nowadays and the bridge is very low, so the water is only used for watermanagement and maintenance
Amersfoort:
't Sluisje (house on a bridge)
Langestraat (shop)
House (now shop at the Kamperbinnenpoort)
Waterpoort De Monnikendam (build at the same time as the iconic Koppelpoort around 1425)
Utrecht:
Hoog catharijne, modern shopping mall with a canal under it
Den Bosch:
Binnendieze - small, but several waterways that is going under a lot of old buildings
Solid stuff, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! Tez
When my family temporarily moved to spain, I had a hobby exploring underground culvert networks when I was 11/12, alone. They were huge, kilometre long tunnels that transported seasonal rivers under the city, constructed in the same manner as a bridge, with abutments, beams and all. Two caveats being they were not only flush with city floor level, but they were bridges constructed extremely long. I have seen this a couple times now, once in spain (a vintage towerblock) constructed over a culvert and in my home town, a row of some extremely old houses built over the river. I have also seen something online where a woman’s lounge floor had fallen into a (massive) culvert network below, and she had done nothing about it. I think the council got involved which sparked debates about who pays for it.
For many years I lived near St Ives in Cambridgeshire. There is a small chapel on the old bridge over the Great Ouse, and it is occasionally open to visitors. It's Cromwell country, and during the civil war the roundheads demolished a couple of bridge arches and installed a drawbridge. The arches were later rebuilt, and the difference in style from the originals is obvious.
This is truly an amazing channel! I think you are a great person ❤please pin this to show the world that we need more people like you.
Methinks you are cunningly seeking subs, keep asking for your comment to be pinned on this and other channels! SMH 🙃
@@the-wild-rose how is asking for pins equivalent to me seeking subs?
You missed out several in England. For instance Cleveland House in Sydney Road, Bath, was built across the Kennet and Avon Canal. In Manchester a lock keepers house on Chorlton Street was built across the Rochdale Canal. In Mytholmroyld, West Yorkshire, a house was built halfway onto a bridge over the Rochdale Canal. In Bradford-on-Avon a small chapel was built on the bridge across the River Avon. It was later used as a lock-up. I'm sure other people can think of more examples.
There are two other bridges with houses on them in Germany. Bamberg Rathaus bridge and Esslingen am Neckar Innere bridge. 😊
@@kapferjanni thank you so much for your comment. I’ve missed quite a few it seems 🙈
I have an other example, there is a bridge in the town of Bar le Duc, in eastern France in the region of Lorraine that is called le Pont Notre Dame, and it used to be a bridge where houses were built on. Today, the houses are gone, but, there is a chapel that still remains to this day.
During WW1, since Bar le Duc was the town that furnished the supplies to Verdun, the germans bombarded the town and the bridge, that was almost completly destroyed, but the only part of the bridge that survived was were the chapel was standing. There is a famous picture that can be found of what was remaning of the bridge after the attack for those that are interested
You should have had a workshop drill the microphone into the handle of a walking stick- speaking to the handle of a walking stick would make you look wise and distinguished and a Gentry
That’s a good idea 😆
I visited Aarhus, Denmark this past summer. There’s a whole city block reaching over the river on Thorvaldsensgade. In Degerfors, Sweden, the steel mill sits on top of the Letälven. However, that’s more a case of ducting the river underground, so that may be considered cheating.
Very interesting video!
Also interesting is the town of Monschau, Germany Whilst not technically buildings on bridges, a lot of the streets and buildings completely run over the rivers intersecting there. I guess you could say the rivers have been covered in some parts, but it's a difficult one!
I think technically the 'Gasterij de Koffiemolen' in Valkenburg, The Netherlands also counts as a building across a bridge, though the river isn't nearly as wide as the ones mentioned in your video.
As a sidenote about Narbonne; We went there earlier this year, and the street was operating normally, no signs of closure or works! (I'm also very happy to be on streetview with the bridge, on Cr Mirabeau, hah)
The thing about a perfect arch is that the more weight it has over top of it, the stronger it is. As long as the foundation isn't moving you're fine.
Roman aqueducts have heavy top bands for the channel too.
Kudos to you for the pronunciation of the not so easy German words 👍🏻
@@JannisHell Well that’s the first time I’ve ever been praised for my pronunciation! Thanks Jannis. Tez 😊
Whilst scrolling TH-cam I immediately stopped to view this video to see if the Bridge Houses of Bad Kreuznach were going to garner a mention. Many U.S. Servicemen & women as well a their families were deployed to Bad Kreuznach at Rose Barracks 8th I.D. and are well acquainted with the Bridge Houses. Good memories.
Always had a thing for houses on bridges. Missed "Covered Bridge" in Bulgaria and Irgandi bridge in Turkey, agurably also Anshun bridge in China.
Schöne Zusammenstellung! In Bamberg und Wismar gibt es auch noch Brückenhäuser...
Interesting video! The original Bristol Bridge over the Avon was a smaller version of London Bridge with shops on both sides but sadly that's long gone. Also, there are bridges with gates and guard towers at various places in Europe (including a small one in Monmouth), but that's a slightly different category - maybe an idea for part 2?
Interesting idea! Thank you. Tez
I used to live in a flat over a railway bridge. Commercial on the ground floor, and flats above. The worst thing about it was that Network Rail could only do engineering when the line was closed, between 1am and 5am. The noise generated from heavy machinery was impossible to sleep through.
very cool video
You missed the Ponte di Rialto in Venice.
A few people have mentioned that … does it have buildings on it though? Or is it a covered bridge? Maybe I’m wrong … 🙄
It is not covered. It has two rows of shops. It is very similar to the Ponte Vecchio.
@@gemcayuse Oh what a shame I didn't include it then :( Thanks so much for your comment, Tez
I came expecting 50 comments saying “Actually London Bridge still exists…” and it does exist! It was bought by some real estate guy in Arizona and it was shipped brick by brick and rebuilt on Lake Havasu where it still stands today. I’ve never seen it because, well you’d have to go to Arizona, but I do believe it’s there. :)
@@ososkid You are absolutely correct but the bridge in Arizona isn’t THE bridge. The London Bridge in AZ was built in 1831 at the same time that the medieval bridge was being demolished. Thanks so much for your comment and thanks for watching. Tez
@ Oh yeah, you’re right. Now that you say that I feel like I remember (or had forgotten) that proviso being part of the original story I had read about this. Honestly, I think this tid bit of trivia might have come to me from “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader”.
This makes more sense. The old wooden bridge would neither have traveled or reassembled very well.
Enjoyed watching! Only critique: maybe show the logo less often
There is a modern version of this in Columbus Ohio. An interstate highway cut thru an area containing the convention center and a shopping/dining area. The solution was to build a. Cap over the highway and add shops and restaurants making it more than just crossing a bridge. It is now 20+ years old.
The Cap at Union Station is a $7.8 million, 25,500-square-foot retail development reconnecting downtown Columbus, Ohio with the Short North arts and entertainment district. The Cap is located along High Street, a major thoroughfare running north from downtown Columbus and the Columbus Convention Center. The project is carried above I-670 - Columbus' Inner Belt Highway - on three parallel bridges. A central bridge carries through traffic across the highway, while the two flanking structures support the retail buildings. The retail buildings are light b-weight structures clad in fiberglass-reinforced plastic designed to be reminiscent of Columbus Union Depot, the former train station designed by Daniel Burnham in the late 1890s that was replaced by the Convention Center in 1976.
Some of those photos would make great jigsaw puzzles 🤪
Paris used to have many inhabited bridges, Raguenet's painting of the Pont au Change is a good example
There is actually quite a number on a bridge in Bolton on Knowsley Street, however it is bascially impossible to tell as the entire bridge is covered over by development around it.
This is a enjoyable video, a building on the bridge what next?
Thanks Philip
I’ve had lunch in Stokes and had no idea it was on a bridge
You can drop the word "nearly". It is very interesting. It's a rare construction, but there are many more I didn't know about. The closest thing to a house on a bridge in the 21st century is a fleeting moment, when a travel trailer or an RV crosses a bridge.
Thank you for your kind words, Tez 😊
They are quirky in the best kind of way. I think that you still missed at least one small bridge with a timber frame building on it. I guess that it's no coincidence as they're light and benefit from a stone base.
In the US they build highway service centers on a bridge over the highway. Filled with shops, food, and restrooms. I know of 3 off the top of my head (one may be in Canada) so im sure there are more.
We have London Bridge here ìn Lake Havasu, Arizona since mid,-20th century.
There is also one in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A modern one. (Maritza River Bridge Shopping Center, just googled it)
great channel
Oh thank you! Tez
You missed a key reason to building on bridges, certainly in the case of Pulteney Bridge. Expansion.
Back when Pulteney Bridge was built, the river divided the popular, wealthy part of Bath; the city centre, and the perceptively poorer regions over the river. So what do you do to attract people over the river as the city expands? You build a bridge lined with shops, leading to an incredibly opulant new housing development, Great Pulteney Street - designed with an extra wide, luxurious street, beautiful terraced townhouses, and a grand building (Now, the Holburn Museum) at the far end.
By building shops on the bridge, the (seemingly successful) intention was to mask the fact that people were venturing over the river when travelling between their plush new townhouse and the city centre and thus, an expanded city is born.
@@DrewpieDrew oh wow! What a great comment thank you! Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting And thank you for a great video!
Fun and interesting!
You missed the place where they build so many over a single small river that when traveling by boat you go underneath many houses. All the houses over "De Binnendieze" in the city "Den Bosch" also called "s'-Hertogenbosch". It is actually quite the tourist attraction and i am surprised when talking with so much passion about this subject that you missed this. The part of the "De Binnendieze" that still exists is about 4km in length and has 26 bridges and about 3/4 of those have houses on them. Original the river was about 12km long and had about 175 bridges and many of these had buildings on them.
Nice video. Thank you. Although not houses the high st cap in columbus ohio usa are buildings on a bridge.
Was the Rialto bridge in Venice, Italy mentioned? There are several jewelry shops housed on it
It wasn't but that's the first one i thought of.
man now I'm interested how plumbing works in these
London bridge still exists. Not the old one but it was rebuilt twice.
"Casa sobre el arroyo" in Argentina is a modern example of one
Here in the USA we prefer to squander our literal trillion$ so that our bridges can occasionally collapse from deterioration.
And that for a young country.
There are so many bridges with buildings in the US. They aren't as beautiful or serene as these, but they exist all over
I LOVE BUILDINGS ON BRIDGES... can I ask, where is your accent from, I live in the west Midlands and it sounds really family to me!
I’m not far from you then! Stoke On Trent 😊 Tez
@@verynearlyinteresting haha, I thought so, I'm a fellow Stokie!