This bridge was completed as a part of the city fortification in 1408.
Between 1626 and 1635, Kaspar Meglinger added 67 paintings which represent the "Dance of Death". It is called the Spreuer Bridge because this was the only place that the chaff from wheat (Spreu) could be dumped into the river.From the outside, Lucerne's Spreuer Bridge looks to be a peacefully bucolic old-world span, the kind where medieval lovers might have met on a warm spring day, but hanging beneath the covered roof are dozens of historic paintings of skeletons and reapers collecting souls and reminding travelers that every second is one closer to death.