Hauptstrasse 27

This article deals with the road in Switzerland. For other meanings see Hauptstraße 27 .

Hauptstrasse 27 in Switzerland
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Basic data
Operator:	ASTRA
Overall length:	approx. 89 km
Canton :	Grisons
Development condition:	double lane, not separated carriageway
Course of the road Further on  Silvaplana Champfèr St. Moritz St. Moritz inner city bypass Celerina / Schlarigna - Samedan - Bever bypass Inn Flaz Inn La Punt-Chamues-ch Bypass Madulain - Zuoz - S-chanf Inn Valember Cinuos-chel Brail Inn Spöl Zernez common course with Inn Susch / Sweet Lavin bypass Giarsun Ardez Scuol / Schuls bypass Crush Ramosch Tschlin Martina Valsot border crossing Duty-free area 185 Vinadi Continue to  184

The main road 27 is a main road in the Engadine in the Swiss canton of Grisons . The main road begins in Silvaplana and ends at the Austrian border near Martina , municipality of Valsot . The total length of the main road is 89 kilometers. Between Samedan and Celerina / Schlarigna and between Zernez and Susch , it divides the road with Hauptstrasse 29 and Hauptstrasse 28 .

history

prehistory

In earlier times the Engadiner Talstrasse did not follow the valley floor as it does today, but avoided difficult spots in the valley floor. This explains why the once important Punt Ota bridge on the border between Upper and Lower Engadine is now off the H27, or that the road below Zernez crossed the Inn with the so-called Justice Bridge and at the Fuorcha gallows until the end of the 18th century led past on the right side of the valley to Susch . For the same reason, the valley road in the Lower Engadine led through the villages of Guarda , Ftan and Sent , which are now high above the H27 , with the corresponding ascents and descents to the lower-lying villages of Ardez or Scuol in between.

For the maintenance of each section, the municipalities were responsible, which was accompanied by a claim of the communities on the transport monopoly: Longer transport over several communities without reloading or even continuous transports were rare, at least there was a certain distance transport of ore and salt from Hall to Chiavenna as well as a transit return freight of rice. Long-distance transport was also hampered by internal tariffs that were levied in Susch or Scuol, for example, until the 18th century.

There was no system of public susten and storage buildings, as is common in other areas of the Alps, even if, for example, the today disintegrated inn Chanoua (Rhaeto-Romanic for new house ) above Ardez was a kind of switch point in transport. Instead, goods were stored privately, including outdoors.

The old road was passable by vehicles, but easier for single-horse wagons than for larger carts. Often the transport was done by sledge , also because more workers were available for transport matters in winter than in the other seasons.

Today's lines

The Engadiner Strasse from Silvaplana to Martinsbruck was built in 1864–1865. This road construction is in the context of the construction of the modern Flüelapassstrasse (1866–67) and the construction of the first driveway over the Ofenpass (1871–72), two sections of today's main road 28.

Hauptstrasse 27 has been bypassing the towns of Celerina , Samedan , Bever , Madulain , Zuoz and S-chanf in the Upper Engadin since the 1980s .

Rock slide on December 23, 2019

On December 23, 2019, around 500 cubic meters of solid rock fell onto the Engadinerstrasse between Ardez and Scuol in a rock fall . As a result, the affected section of the route had to be closed for an expected three weeks.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruina Chanoua: 46 ° 46 '52.3 "  N , 10 ° 12' 50.6"  E
2. ^ Jon Mathieu (1987). Farmers and bears . Octopus, Chur
3. ↑ Canton of Graubünden
4. ↑ Road in the Lower Engadine closed for 3 weeks after a rock fall. In: tagesanzeiger.ch . December 27, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 . 

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