Cultural heritage in Goyang
five-thousand years history
Current story of Goyang
2017-03-20
Record the history after making stone bridge in Gongreungcheon. Sinwon-dong, Dukmyunggyp bridge
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Designation number: Regional cultural asset 52
location: 1685 Sinwon-dong, Deokyang-gu
This bridge stone is located at the soccer stadium of small and medium business bank in liberation village at Sinwon-dong. This memorial stone is buried in Daejwa for the entire area. The entire texture of the stone is granite stone, and the part of roof of stone stupa has been abraded.
Front side of the memorial stone is the 篆字 that is written as ‘Dukmyung bridge at Goyang-gun, Gyeonggi-do.’ Other than 篆字 on the front side, there is a epitaph with letters on the entire areas. On the back of stone, there is an epitaph from the middle of the stone stating, ‘Dukmyung bridge in Goyangsiwon.’ In addition, names of tens of people are stated bicipital letters underneath them.
Contents of the memorial stone are about details for how the bridge was constructed on Gongreungcheon in Sinwon-dong at Gwanseo-ro that connected Hayang and northern areas.
According to this epitaph, constructor of this memorial stone was a group of 760 citizens represented by Hoosung Yoon as an administrator at Goyang, Myunji Yoon, the Junghundaebu, and Sangsik Lee, and Sihoo Hong. In other words, front side of it stated how about 760 citizens cooperated with each other constructing the stone bridge. The year of construction for this bridge was the 9th year of Hyojung (1658). As an epitaph stating the history of areas in Gongreung, it is valuable as a cultural asset.