Manosque Bridge

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Manosque Bridge, the new building on the right, 2019

The bridge of Manosque , French: Pont de Manosque , is a river crossing of the road 207 over the Durance in the French department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in the area of ​​the municipalities of Manosque , Gréoux-les-Bains and Valensole . It is the only bridge on a section of the river of 30 kilometers.

history

The Durance flows in its middle course between Oraison in the Départment Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Cadarache in the Département Var on the left side in the wide river valley about two kilometers east of the town of Manosque. For a new road connection from Manosque to Valensole and into the Verdon Valley as part of the main road from Avignon to Nice , a first suspension bridge was under construction from 1838 to 1843, but it was destroyed before the inauguration by the millennium flood of the Durance on November 2, 1843 has been.

The reconstruction of the 200-meter-long and 5-meter-wide bridge southeast of Manosque lasted until 1847. The construction work was financed by the French Treasury and the maintenance of the bridge consisted of the proceeds of a bridge toll set by the law of January 22nd, 1839 and levied until 1882 certainly.

The first renovation of the building took place in 1890-1891 by Ferdinand Arnodin .

In 1939 a new 6 meter wide suspension bridge replaced the old bridge over the Durance. In 1944 a bombing raid damaged the bridge, on which several cables were replaced in 1956 and 1989.

A motorway exit of the Durance motorway A 51 has been located near the western bridgehead since 1986 . The area is part of the Réserve Naturelle Géologique du Lubéron geological reserve . The valley level is endangered by floods.

New building

Due to the strong increase in traffic, a replacement bridge was built next to the existing bridge in 2018/2019 at the instigation of the Conseil Départemental des Alpes de Haute Provence. It is located a few meters north.

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literature

  • Guy Baruol, Philippe Autran, Jacqueline Ursch: D'une rive à l'autre: les ponts de Haute-Provence de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Forcalquier 2006. ISBN 2-906162-81-7 , p. 46.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoportal France
  2. ↑ Annales des Basses-Alpes: bulletin de la Société scientifique et littéraire des Basses-Alpes 1898–1907, pp. 419–420: Customs tariff according to the law of January 22, 1839.
  3. ↑ Pont de Manosque - 1846 on Art-et-Histoire.com
  4. ↑ 1890 renforcement du pont de Manosque. In: Ponts suspendus, conçus, construits ou rénovés par Ferdinand ARNODIN - 2nd partie -1890> 1924

Coordinates: 43 ° 48 ′ 16 ″  N , 5 ° 49 ′ 27 ″  E