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Caesar's Rhine bridges
Caesars Rheinbrücken
Caesar's Rhine bridges were two temporary timber bridges built by Gaius Julius Caesar and his legions during the Gallic War (55 and 53 BC) to cross the Rhine. Each was a wooden beam-and-pile structure with guarded entries and temporary fortifications; both were dismantled after use. They are known from Caesar's Commentaries and later archaeological traces of piled timbers in the Rhine valley.
First raised
54 BC
Its prime
53 BC
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 53 BC
What Caesar's Rhine bridges looked like in its prime.
A long, low wooden beam bridge spanning the Rhine on rows of closely spaced paired timber piles driven into the riverbed. The deck is a 7–9 m wide plank roadway of transverse beams and boards, covered with earth and rushes, with simple low railings and short guard towers at the entries. Upstream and downstream slanted piles form triangular breakwaters; temporary rafts and piling-frames float beside the spans. All elements are rough-sawn local timber, tied with lashings and pegged joints.
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