Kappelen Bridge

Wohlensee with the Kappelen bridge

Kappelenbrücke with the Kappelenring superstructure in the background

The previous bridge in 1907 with a post bus on the first post bus line from Bern to Detlingen

The Kappelen Bridge , also known as the Hinterkappelen Bridge, connects Bern-Bethlehem with Hinterkappelen . The bridge is part of the main road 235 , which leads from Aarberg west around the Frienisberg to Bern .

The 174-meter-long road bridge opened in 1920, an elegant concrete structure with a wide central main arch and smaller rows of arches arranged like a viaduct on both sides, leads over the Aare, which was also dammed around 1920 to the Wohlensee .

Web links

Commons : Kappelenbrücke - collection of images, videos and audio files

Kappelen Bridge. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Chancellery : Through Road Ordinance SR 741.272. Appendix 2 - List of main streets - B. Main streets that are not marked with the «number plate for main streets» (4.57). In: Systematic Collection of Federal Law SR . Swiss Federal Council , December 18, 1991, accessed on August 9, 2017 (as of January 1, 2016).

46.965288888889 7.3809138888889Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 55 " N , 7 ° 22 ′ 51.3" E ; CH1903: 595,607 / two hundred and one thousand five hundred eighty-one

[1] Federal Chancellery : Through Road Ordinance SR 741.272. Appendix 2 - List of main streets - B. Main streets that are not marked with the «number plate for main streets» (4.57). In: Systematic Collection of Federal Law SR . Swiss Federal Council , December 18, 1991, accessed on August 9, 2017 (as of January 1, 2016).