Birsig Viaduct
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 59 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 1" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ten thousand nine hundred twenty-one / 266,552
Birsig Viaduct | ||
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Official name | Viaduktstrasse | |
use | Road bridge | |
Convicted | Tram and road traffic | |
Crossing of | Birsig | |
Subjugated | Birsig , tram and road traffic | |
place | Basel | |
start of building | 1857 | |
completion | 1858 | |
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The Birsig Viaduct is one of the three large city viaducts in Basel . Although the bridge is officially called "Viaduktstrasse", it is mainly referred to as the Birsig Viaduct. Below that, the Birsig flows towards the city center and its confluence with the Rhine . The building connects the districts of Bachletten and Gundeldingen on the south side and parts of the Ring district on the north side .
The Birsig Viaduct was built from 1857 to 1858 and was then used by trains. In 1902 and 1903 the bridge was widened. The high-rise of the indoor swimming pool Rialto was added to the viaduct from 1932 to 1934;
Until the road renovation in the spring of 2013, a large, star-shaped ground pattern was a striking feature of the Birsig Viaduct; it was a privately created memorial for a high school student who had a fatal accident in a traffic accident there at the end of May 1999.