Holz-Brücke Covered Bridge — Attraction in City of Frankenmuth

On our way to the Covered Bridge Shop, we decided to walk over the Holz-Brücke Bridge and take a closer look at this structure, which was explained to us by the Captain of the Bavarian Belle Riverboat.

Holz-Brücke is German for “wooden bridge" The Covered Bridge" was completed in 1980 and stretches 239 feet across the Cass River. There are 163,288 board feet of wood and nearly 1,000 lbs. of non-wood material went into the making of the almost entirely wood structure. It was built mostly of Douglas Fir and clad with an astounding 25,000 cedar shingles. Once completed in 1980, a team of oxen was used to pull the completed bridge into place over a span of 12 days at a rate of only three inches per minute.

Definitely a marvel of construction and ingenuity.

It's sad that people are writing...

I mean, it looks cool. Then you find out it was built in '79. To me, that fact kills most of the awe I had before knowing it's not that old. However, it does look to be in really good condition for it's age. The city takes good care of the bridge. It's something for the city to be proud of for sure. Just to me, it's too young to be what I consider "historical". Also, the location of the bridge seems out of place. It seems like the bridge would be located in a more rural area. Not downtown...

Well it's just a bridge, a man-made bridge, tourist attraction. Nothing very special about it. It's just a wooden bridge. You can drive across it sometimes. If it's a big vehicle coming across you have to wait till he goes through. Then you can go through or if you're a big vehicle you have to wait and then go through. But again it's just a man-made regular wooden bridge. Nothing significant about it. You know it was made just...