Beolgyodomagyo Bridge and Stone Stele

Laid across the waterway of the Jeondongje Reservoir, this bridge is accompanied by two stone steles standing nearby. Also known as "Domae-dari," it is said to have come to be called Domagyo because the nearby Buyongsan Mountain has the form of "yakma bujeong," a leaping horse poised in mid-air. The bridge is built of granite, cut into rectangular blocks to form piers, over which broad, flat slabs were laid crosswise to complete the span. It was originally considerably longer than it is today, but half of it was swept away in a flood in the summer of 1989, leaving only the remaining half standing. According to the inscriptions on the nearby Domagyobi stele and the Jungsubi, or "renovation stele," the bridge was first built in the twenty-fifth year of King Injo (1645) and was newly repaired in the eighth year of King Sukjong (1682). No records survive of what became of it afterwards. Until about twenty years ago it played a part not only in farm work but also in the village's communal rites, but as the village community dissolved these rites disappeared, and the bridge now survives only as an aid to farming. Although part of it is missing and it no longer has its original scale, because both its date of construction and its date of repair are known, it stands as an important historical source for the study of bridges.

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Where it is

Region

Boseong, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산