Neckar footbridge, Demolished pedestrian bridge in Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany

The Neckarsteg was a 158-metre covered wooden footbridge over the Neckar in Stuttgart's Bad Cannstatt district, weighing 210 tonnes and built from about 400 cubic metres of timber. It linked Bad Cannstatt with Rosenstein Park. Its successor, opened on 20 April 2021, is about 170 metres long and 4.5 metres wide, hanging beneath the new railway bridge with roughly 6 metres of clearance above the water.

Built for the 1977 Bundesgartenschau to link Bad Cannstatt with Rosenstein Park, the wooden footbridge was planned by Dieter Sengler, formerly a professor of timber construction at Stuttgart's University of Applied Sciences, and Julius Natterer. Construction began in summer 1976; a crane jib gave way a month before opening and part of the structure fell into the water, yet the bridge opened on 29 April 1977. It was demolished from June 2016 for Stuttgart 21.

The wooden bridge was built for the 1977 Bundesgartenschau to link Bad Cannstatt with Rosenstein Park, and visitors used it as a direct route between the garden show grounds and the park. After its demolition in 2016, pedestrians had to take detours until the new Neckar footbridge opened on 20 April 2021, which now hangs beneath the railway bridge.

The original wooden footbridge was demolished in 2016 for Stuttgart 21; its replacement, the Neuer Neckarsteg, opened on 20 April 2021. The new crossing is about 170 m long and 4.5 m wide, hanging beneath the railway bridge with roughly 6 m clearance above the Neckar. It is reached via new access paths and carries pedestrians and cyclists.

The 1977 wooden bridge was designed by Dieter Sengler, a former professor of timber construction at Stuttgart's University of Applied Sciences, together with Julius Natterer. A crane jib gave way a month before opening, dropping part of the structure into the Neckar, yet the bridge still opened on 29 April 1977 for the Bundesgartenschau.