Inglisild ('Angel's Bridge') is a bridge in

Toomemägi Toomemägi (or Toome Hill; et, Toomemägi or et, Toome) is a hill in Tartu, Estonia. Geologically, Toomemägi is part of the Emajõgi's ancient valley. Toomemägi is site of Tartu's beginnings. By the 7th century CE, local inhabitants had ...

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. The bridge was built between 1814 and 1816 and was designed by Johann Wilhelm Krause. Later, the bridge was somewhat re-built and in 1836 construction works ended. The rebuilt structure was designed by

Moritz Hermann von Jacobi Moritz Hermann or Boris Semyonovich (von) Jacobi (russian: Борис Семёнович Якоби; 21 September 1801, Potsdam – 10 March 1874, Saint Petersburg) was a Prussian and Russian Imperial engineer and physicist of Jewish descent. Ja ...

. It is supposed that the name of bridge is very likely a corruption of the original "Englische Brücke" or "English bridge". The portrait relief in the middle of the bridge commemorates the first rector of the re-founded

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in 1802,

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(1767–1852), and bears the inscription ''Otium reficit vires'' ('Leisure Renews the Powers'). On 21 April 2012 the bridge was damaged by fire.

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{{Tartu landmarks Bridges in Tartu

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