Altenbergsteg

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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 1 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 55"  E ; CH1903:  600753  /  199899

Altenbergsteg
Altenbergsteg
Altenbergsteg in 2008
use Pedestrian traffic
Convicted Aare
place Bern
Entertained by Civil engineering office of the city of Bern - operation and maintenance
construction Chain bridge
overall length 57 m
width 2.1 m
Number of openings 1
Load capacity 200 kg / m²
building-costs CHF 55,000
opening October 2, 1857
construction time 9 months
planner Gustav Gränicher, Niklaus Riggenbach
on behalf of the Olten workshop of the Swiss Central Railway
location
Altenbergsteg (Canton of Bern)
Altenbergsteg
Above sea level 500  m above sea level M.

A maximum of 200 people are allowed on the jetty at the same time

The Altenbergsteg is a small suspension bridge for pedestrians over the Aare in the city of Bern . It connects the old town of Bern with Altenberg to the north .

history

Before the Chain Bridge was built in 1857, there was a wooden bridge with a customs house on the same site since 1834. Previously, the ferry, introduced in 1823, was used to cross the Aare. The footbridge is only a few meters laterally shifted below the - but much higher - Kornhausbrücke, which opened in 1898 .

The Altenbergsteg is one of the oldest suspension bridges and the only still existing chain bridge in Switzerland and a cultural asset of national importance , KGS no. 666.

Only for pedestrians

It is forbidden to cross the bridge with vehicles such as motorcycles or bicycles . In addition, jogging is prohibited on the footbridge, although it is part of the Allez Hop-Träff running course . Aare bathers use the footbridge upstream from the Lorraine open-air swimming pool to jump into the cool water of the Aare.

Impressions

See also

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Web links

Commons : Altenbergsteg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Operation + maintenance. In: bern.ch. City administration of the city of Bern, accessed on January 29, 2018 .
  2. a b PM, Guy Schneider (recordings 2001): BE 2413.0.1 Altenbergsteg. (PDF; 259 kB) ITS Documentation Canton Bern. In: Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland IVS. Federal Roads Office FEDRO, November 21, 2006, p. 3 , accessed on August 10, 2017 : "Importance national"
  3. a b c Werner Neuhaus: Heimat Today 2007 . Berner Heimatschutz Regionalgruppe Bern , 2007, p. 37–38 ( Online Archive [PDF; accessed on September 17, 2019] How the Bernese got to “their” train station 150 years ago).
  4. Allez Hop Parcours - Altenberg - Aare ( Memento from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at the Bern Sports Office (accessed on December 1, 2012)