Susegana Bridge

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Coordinates: 45 ° 51 '28 "  N , 12 ° 11' 8"  E

Susegana Bridge
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use footbridge
Convicted Via Claudia Augusta
Crossing of Bach without a name
place Susegana , Veneto ( Italy )
construction Segment arch bridge with vaulted vaults
width 5.3 m
Number of openings 1
Clear width 3 m
construction time 1st half of the 1st century AD
location
Susegana Bridge (Veneto)
Susegana Bridge

The Susegana Bridge is one of a group of Roman bridges on the Via Claudia Augusta in the northern Italian town of Susegana , from which it stands out due to its flat arch, which allows it to be classified as an early segment arch bridge . It was built in the first half of the 1st century AD.

The modest building is the fifth of six ancient pedestrian bridges in the fraction Colfosco, where a nameless creek below the local road bridge, just before the junction to Falzè di Piave crossed. The 5.3 m wide bridge rests on a single arch made of eleven irregular wedge stones, which, with a clear width of 3 m, has a very low pitch compared to ancient times .

Such material-saving flat arch constructions occur in an unusually high number of Roman bridges in the Veneto region , so that there has already been talk of a construction school. One reason for the local concentration could have been the special topographical conditions of the coastal region, whose soft alluvial soil was not very suitable for the typically massive semicircular arched bridges of the Romans. In addition, the lower rise of segment arch bridges in the flat coastal landscape was probably perceived as less arduous and therefore beneficial for foot and truck traffic.

The bridge, which according to reports was still in good condition in 1938, now shows signs of deterioration and the like. a. in the area of ​​their arch gussets .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Galliazzo 1994, p. 215; Galliazzo 1995, p. 432
  2. ↑ a b c d Galliazzo 1994, p. 215
  3. ↑ Quilici 2008, pp. 572f.

literature

  • Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani , vol. 1, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1995, p. 432, ISBN 88-85066-66-6
  • Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale , Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, p. 215 (No. 443), ISBN 88-85066-66-6
  • Lorenzo Quilici: "Land Transport, Part 1: Roads and Bridges", in: Oleson, John Peter (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 551–579, ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1

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