The bridge connects the city's district Stühlinger to the old town as it links the church square of Herz-Jesu-Kirche to Konrad-Adenauer-Platz in spanning the railway tracks of Freiburg Hauptbahnhof.

[1] The bridge was built in 1885–86 in place of an inaccessible crossing of the same height by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway.

The bridge was inaugurated as "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke",[3] however, the name didn't stick among the residents, who called it "Stühlingerbrücke".

With the Railway Crossing Act, the bridge became the property of the city of Freiburg in 1978,[4] after the track had already been removed in 1972 as part of a first refurbishment and a new concrete carriageway had been applied, to secure the usage for the next 15 years.

As part of the redesign of the station area and a related construction of the abutment on the east side in 1996, the bridge was then closed to motor traffic and was made accessible only for bicycles and pedestrians.

However, due to the doubling of steel consumption and additional asbestos problems, the work lasted until September 2009 and cost 6.3 million euros.

[5] A spiral staircase leading from the northern sidewalk to the bus station was not restored after renovation.