Historically, timber bridges always have played an important role for crossing the water barriers, depth valleys or other obstacles. The history of timber bridges in Latvia begins in 9th century and continues until nowadays. Golden age for timber bridges in Latvia was the period from the end of 19 centuries until the II World War. At that time in Latvia had been high qualified bridge engineers who could design and build outstanding bridge structures. Today’s achievements in timber protection systems, new joining methods, the possibility to produce the glued timber structures with clearly indicated properties, will return the timber as structural material in bridge construction industry. The aim of this study is to present the historical and nowadays achievements in the timber bridge building in Latvia