The present bridge over the River Bērze in Brīvības Street, below the Dobele Castle Ruins, is an object of strategic significance, and the daily routine of Dobele residents is not imaginable without it, since it is the only transport bridge, which connects parts of the town on both sides of the River Bērze. It is not less important for travellers, who wish to leave for Tērvete, Bauska, Saldus or Liepāja from the centre of Dobele.
Initially there was a ferry across the river. Later o, in the first half of the 19th century, both the banks of the river were connected by a wooden bridge. The present bridge was built slightly rightwards from the place, where the old wooden bridge was once placed. An indication of this is a narrow, covvled lane at the end of Viestura Street, on the left bank of the river.
After World War II bridge constructors used to install cast iron grating within guardrail. The same was applied to the Bērze Bridge in Dobele, which was built in 1957. The missing or damaged parts of the grating were cast anew in 1996. The grating consists of sections, which are 48 cm wide and 85 cm high, and are placed by six in a row between polygonal cast iron posts. A distinctive element of an ornament of the grating is a circle intersected by adjacent circles.
The bridge is 45 m long and 10 m wide.
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