
Norbert hildmann never gets bored. At the annual general meeting of the riedenberg horticultural association, he showed the visitors a selection of his photos of the construction of the new bridge. "I must have over four and a half thousand recordings in my "archive, he said. "But I have selected only 370, which I want to show you this evening." there some became restless… It promised to be a long evening. It did – but nobody was bored.
At the beginning, every day on the construction site
"i have been retired for a few years", explained the 71-year-old. "I was an engineer myself, although not in civil engineering. I did not want to miss the construction of the new bridge." and so hildmann documented photographically all the processes involved in building the bridge since construction began in 2009. "At first I was on the construction site every day. I'm lucky, I live in riedenberg and I'm very close to it." hildmann contacted the construction management and got permission to take pictures even there, where the construction site was otherwise consequently closed to everyone. "Of course I had the constant contact with the construction management. You can't just walk onto the construction site like that."