Notre-Dame de Bar-le-Duc bridge

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The Notre-Dame Bridge is a five- arched masonry bridge crossing the Ornain at Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse department and Lorraine region. The primitive wooden bridge was replaced by a masonry bridge in 1311, and houses came to build on it in corbellation. The Germans destroyed it on August 30, 1944 during World War II, but it was reconstructed identically. A chapel-oratory dedicated to Notre-Dame de la Paix is located on one of the central piles of the bridge.

From the first centuries of our era, a wooden bridge was built to cross the Ornain and connect the neighbourhoods of Bar-la-Ville and Bourg. Then called Grand Pont, it remains for a long time the only bridge of the city. In 1311, the wooden bridge was replaced by a masonry bridge, as evidenced by the date later inscribed on one of the deck piles. Houses are built in corbellation to gain space. They will be destroyed for reasons of hygiene from the 18th century, and the latter will disappear in the 20th century. Prior to the construction of the canal of the Marne on the Rhine in the 19th century, the Ornain is used to transport...