Brückstraße 2, Ehem. Amberger Stadel, Former salt warehouse in the old town of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany

The Amberger Stadel at Brückstraße 2 is a four-storey salt warehouse of quarry stone with a gabled roof and a hipped half-hip on its west side, rebuilt in 1551. Inside, medieval timberwork survives: heavy beam girders and saddle timbers. A 1902/03 arch by city architect Adolf Schmetzer links it to the bridge-gate tower of the Stone Bridge.

Built between 1485 and 1492 as Regensburg's first salt warehouse, on the order of Duke Albert IV of Bavaria during his brief rule over the free imperial city. After the city received the salt staple right, it was to channel salt onward to Amberg and the Upper Palatinate. The imperial city had it demolished and rebuilt larger in 1551; in 1902/03 city architect Adolf Schmetzer converted it into a residential and commercial building.

The name Amberger Stadel comes from Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the destination of the salt shipped onward from here, not from a merchant family. The duke's stacking right obliged salt traders to use Regensburg, and the city built this store to profit from that traffic.

The building stands at Brückstraße 2, directly at the southern bridgehead of the Stone Bridge, where the Schwibbogen arch spans the former tram route to Stadtamhof. The ground floor still holds shops, and the student housing above is not open to visitors. The facade and the arch are best seen from the bridge approach.

During the 1990 renovation of the city salt warehouse, workers proved the existence of a narrow bypass canal (Wiedfangkanal) that once ran beneath the southernmost, now buried, arch of the Stone Bridge. Small boats used it to avoid the dangerous bridge piers. The 1487 building had to respect this channel; by 1551 it had been filled in.