A Bridge That Creates The Illusion Of A Circle

Nestled among the verdant foliage in Kromlau, Germany’s Kromlauer Park, is a delicately arched 19th-century bridge known as the Rakotzbrücke, which was specifically built to create a circle when it is reflected in the waters beneath it. 

Like many similarly precarious spans across Europe, the Rakotzbrücke is known as a “devil’s bridge”, due to the colloquialism that such bridges were so dangerous or miraculous that they must have been built by Satan. While the bridge (as with all the others) was created by mortal hands, its builders did seem to hold the aesthetics of the bridge in higher regard than its utility. 

Today, the bridge can still be viewed in the park, but crossing the aging relic is prohibited in order to preserve it. 

And in yesterday’s Scottish Premiership match between Celtic and Ross County, the former were again made to work in Dingwall as they beat the latter 3-1. 

For all their 83% possession in the first half, the Glaswegian side failed to find a breakthrough as their opponents provided stout resistance. The restart saw the game burst to life when Callum McGregor played a weighted pass to Jota, who took an intelligent touch past a defender before picking out Kyogo Furuhashi in front of goal for a simple finish in the forty-eighth minute. 

But Ross County thundered in a header to equalise ten minutes later. 

Celtic toiled in search of a second goal until centre-back Moritz Jenz glanced a header home from a terrific Jota cross in the eighty-fourth minute to send their supporters wild. 

And then, intricate play on the edge of the box allowed Liel Abada to finish off an impressive attacking move with a curling effort in injury time to guarantee all three points. 

The next game is when Celtic meet Kilmarnock next Sunday.