The King of Prussia, a conservative and God-fearing ruler, may have viewed the viaduct as proof of God’s generosity, with which He endowed people with talent. Fryderyk Gansel may have thought about civilizational progress and the fascinating possibilities of the human intellect. Both were surely impressed by the nearly half-kilometre-long structure, deliberately evoking a Roman aqueduct.
Fryderyk Wilhelm IV expressed his conservatism, among other ways, by rejecting the imperial crown offered to him by the National Assembly. He was said to have replied that he would not pick the crown up from the mud, emphasizing that he was not receiving it from the rulers of the German states, but only from the hands of an unworthy people.
After years of study in Germany, Belgium and England, Fryderyk Gansel returned to Bolesławiec and designed the tower of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the building of the present-day school on Komuny Paryskiej Street, as well as many other religious and industrial structures throughout Lower Silesia.
The construction of this magnificent structure used light-yellow sandstone from a quarry in nearby Dobra, which significantly reduced the already high construction costs. To build the scaffolding, a sizeable forest was cut down, using 12,000 tree trunks. During the two years of construction, the site also provided employment for almost 4,000 people.