Your troop funds must be
used for any awards, badges, or pins. It is up to your troop and your
troop account balance, whether you want to present your "bridging" girls
with handbooks, vests, etc for the next level.
Bridging is a highly
prestigious event in the life of a Girl Scout and sooner or later every
girl bridges. Whether your girls are bridging or not, please make this
a Troop and Family Event and help them benefit from this wonderful
learning experience. Plus, the girls who are bridging would love the
support.
The following photos were submitted from Troop 125,
who bridged across the Old Bridge* in Heidelberg.
Congratulations to their new
Heidelberg Cadettes!!!
* Old
Bridge (Carl Theodor Bridge)
Friedrich Hölderlin wrote poems about it, and so did Gottfried Keller.
Countless painters have also immortalized it in their works: the Old
Bridge, whose real name is the Carl Theodor Bridge after the man who had
it built. The bridge’s nine red sandstone arches span the Neckar River
and blend harmoniously into their surroundings, framed by the river and
mountains.
The Old Bridge is actually relatively young, and was preceded by many
older bridges made of wood. The first bridge was recorded at this site
in 1284. But like all of the wooden bridges that followed, it eventually
fell prey to high water and ice. This finally prompted Prince Elector
Carl Theodor – after a major flood with ice had destroyed the last
wooden bridge in 1784 – to construct the first stone bridge in 1786-88.
Raised bents in its middle allowed water to drain off quickly when the
river flooded.
On March 29, 1945, one of the very last days of the War, German soldiers
used explosives to render all of Heidelberg’s Neckar bridges impassable,
including the Old Bridge. But thanks to a drive to collect donations
that was enthusiastically supported by the town’s residents, work to
rebuild it began as soon as March 14, 1946. It was inaugurated on July
26, 1947. In 2001 the Old Bridge was added to the World Monuments Fund,
a list of the world’s most endangered monuments.
The following photos were submitted from Troop 186,
who bridged across the bridge, built in 2007 by Cadette Troop 199 as
part of their Silver Award.
Congratulations to their new
Heidelberg Juniors!!!
