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Spreuer Bridge

Created from 1616 to 1637 under the direction of painter Kaspar Meglinger. Of the 67 original paintings, 45 are still in existence. Each one includes a skeleton/skeletons, which provided vivid reminder to anyone across the bridge that nobody, in any walk of life, can escape death (an especially poignant message in times of war and plague when these were painted.)

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Uploaded on April 8, 2016
Taken on August 29, 2015