sentences:  All postal and road traffic between Meisenheim and Zweibrücken went across this bridge in the area of the so-called "Hohe Straße" ("High Road").The bridge had its first documentary mention in 1693, when it was newly built, although it was still only a wooden bridge then.The cost of this bridge, which was completed in May 1752 and which was thereby the earliest known crossing of the Glan, was 1,746 "Gulden", two thirds of which (1,164 "Gulden") was borne by the treasury of the Zweibrücken "Oberamt" of Lichtenberg, and the other third of which (582 "Gulden") was borne by the administration of the Lordship of Kellenbach.