Hundwil wooden bridge

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 11"  E ; CH1903:  742,057  /  two hundred forty-eight thousand six hundred and sixteen

Hundwil wooden bridge Alte Tobelbrücke Bridge in the Rachentobel
The Tobel Bridge viewed upstream.
use	Pedestrian
Subjugated	Urnaesch
place	Hundwil
construction	Covered wooden bridge
overall length	about 29 m
width	2.36 m
Longest span	29 m
start of building	1778
planner	Johann Ulrich Grubenmann (1709–1783)
location

The wooden bridge Hundwil , as a bridge in the throat Tobel and on the map of Switzerland as Old Tobel bridge called, is a historic covered wooden bridge between Hundwil and Herisau . In addition to the Kubel Bridge near St. Gallen, it is the only remaining bridge from the builder Johann Ulrich Grubenmann .

Building history

The 29-meter-long bridge spans the Urnäsch river without any supports thanks to a suspension system . Grubenmann also applied the suspension system with five-sided, polygonal arches to the Kubel Bridge in 1780.

As with the Kubelbrücke, the roof trusses were provided with sayings, which is why it was given the nickname “speaking bridge”.

Web links

• Old Hundwiler Tobelbrücke 665 m. hikr.org , accessed on February 17, 2013 (picture). 

Commons : Holzbrücke Hundwil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Killer: The works of the master builders Grubenmann - A building-historical and structural research work. Diss., Federal Technical University. Gebr. Leemann and Co., Zurich 1942, pp. 52–54. ( doi: 10.3929 / ethz-a-000091759 )