Grunwaltzky Bridge across the Oder River in Wroclaw (Poland)

Wooden, I lay for centuries above the lazy waters. Now I decorate the navigable route with iron and stone.

Text of a plaque in the bridge until 1945

Zwierzyniecki Bridge over the Oder River in Wroklaw (Poland)

 

"A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor."

Jeanette Winterson

Grunwald Bridge over the Oder River in Wroclaw (Poland)

‘I am thankful for heavens that in all my instincts I stood Polish.’ 

 Friedrich Nietzsche

Grunwaltzky Bridge over the Oder River in Wroclaw, Lower Silesia (Poland)

“The Oder on which you lie and whose unsteady

stream is broken by you into many branches,

can see nowhere - from its source to the mouth

- when flowing through all the northern lands,

anything that could be compared with you, Wroclaw”

Bartlomiej Stein

Piastowski Bridge over the Oder River in Opole (Poland)

"Oder is a noble peasant woman. Quiet, confidently goes by their land. Lime and coal dust, sometimes resting on her dress her monotonous beat kick lumberjack song. She always has a job, lugging their children coal and wood, grain and hundredfold need to live. Those who are living with her, safe and happy, and when it reaches the sea, wide and devotion extends his arms toward eternity. "

Oder River according to

Paul Keller

Grunwaltzky Bridge over the Oder River in Wroclaw (Poland) painted by Katarzyna Tomala

Yo dibujo puentes

para que me encuentres:

Un puente de tela,

con mis acuarelas...

Un puente colgante,

con tiza brillante...

Puentes de madera,

con lápiz de cera...

Puentes levadizos,

plateados, cobrizos...

Puentes irrompibles,

de piedra, invisibles...

Y Tú...¡Quién creyera!

¡No los ves siquiera!

Hago cien, diez, uno...

¡No cruzas ninguno!

Más... como te quiero...

dibujo y espero.

¡Bellos, bellos puentes

para que me encuentres!

Elsa Bornemann

Piastowski Bridge over the Oder River in Opole (Poland)