![Die Rakotzbrück (Devil's Bridge) Saxony, Germany [1024x1024 - 2.1MB]](https://pic8.co/sh/CZvrIL.jpg){kind=link}
Why is it the devil's bridge?
The reflection in the water makes it like a perfectly symmetrical portal.
Most bridges were utilitarian and the engineers generally didn't hold aesthetics in high regard, so colloquially speaking it must have been built by non-mortal hands or devils, due to its miraculous and dangerous appeal.
That is a sexy answer. Thank you.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rakotzbrucke-devils-bridge
They said that only the devil could build such bridges:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-most-unholy-architecture-the-devils-bridges
Reminds me of this:
When and by whom, these edifices were raised, as the people of the land are ignorant of the art of writing, there is no record, but they say they are the work of the devil, for in comparison with their power and knowledge it does not seem possible to them that they should be the work of man.
— João de Barros (commenting on the Great Zimbabwe and the Africans living near it)
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