Spreuer Bridge

The Spreuer Bridge is the smaller of Lucerne's two medieval covered wooden bridges, crossing the Reuss further downstream than its famous neighbour. Completed in the sixteenth century, it once marked the point where chaff and leaves could be tipped into the river. Beneath its rafters hangs a series of painted panels known as the Dance of Death, a grim seventeenth-century cycle showing skeletons leading figures of every rank toward the grave. A small chapel sits midway along its span, and a weir with old mill works runs beside it.