Kornhaus Bridge (Bern)

Kornhausbrücke
	Kornhaus Bridge in 2009
use	Individual transport , tram and bus
Convicted	Aare
place	Bern
Entertained by	Civil engineering office of the city of Bern - operation and maintenance
construction	Steel arch bridge
overall length	382 m
width	12.5 m
Number of openings	6th
Longest span	115 m + 5 × 36 m
start of building	September 1895
opening	June 18, 1898
construction time	34 months
planner	Arthur and Hermann von Bonstetten, Theodor Bell. Paul Simons
	location
Above sea level	532 m above sea level M.

46.950278 7.448333 532Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 1 " N , 7 ° 26 ′ 54" E ; CH1903: 600738 / 199911

The Kornhausbrücke is a road bridge in the Swiss capital Bern . It spans the Aare river valley and connects the old town in the I district with the Altenberg , Spitalacker and Breitenrain quarters of the V district to the north .

History, construction, dates

It was built on a resolution of the municipality of Bern on January 13, 1895 by the Bern engineers A. and H. von Bonstetten as well as Paul Simons and the machine works Theodor Bell & Cie. AG in Kriens in connection with the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen (with its engineer Reinhold Krohn ). Work began in September 1895 and the bridge opened on June 18, 1898.

It is named after the Berner Kornhaus , leads from Kornhausplatz, where the Bern City Theater is located next to the Kornhaus , to Viktoriaplatz and is 382 m long. It is an arch bridge with steel truss arches and an elevated roadway on top. The main opening has a span of 115 m, the five small arches of 34 m each. The bridge is 12.6 m wide, the roadway is at the highest point of the main arch 47.76 m above the low water of the Aare. The bridge is only a few meters laterally shifted above the Altenbergsteg, opened in 1857, but much less high .

Korenhuisbrug

On the occasion of the European Football Championship in 2008 , the bridge that leads from Bern's main train station to the Stade de Suisse football stadium was also given a Dutch name, first Kornhausbrug , then Korenhuisbrug . A corresponding souvenir is still a popular photo subject in Bern for astonished tourists, Dutch guests and football fans. Italian football fans, whose team was defeated by the Dutch at the time, stuck the white and blue orange sign with Ponte del Granaio . However, the Bern Civil Engineering Office restored the original memorial sign.

literature

Theodor Landsberg : The Kornhausbrücke in Bern. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 18th year,

No. 34 of August 20, 1898, pp. 397–399 ( digitized version at the Central and State Library Berlin ),
No. 35 of August 27, 1898, pp. 412-413 ( digitized at the ZLB).

Thomas Fuchs: Bonstetten, Hermann von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Collaborator, Guy Schneider ( photos 2001): BE 2412.0.1 Kornhausbrücke. (PDF; 319 KB) IVS Documentation Canton Bern. In: Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland IVS . Federal Roads Office FEDRO , November 21, 2006, p. 4 , accessed on August 10, 2017 : "Importance national"

sbo, Guy Schneider (photos 2001): BE 2412 Bern / Kornhausplatz - Bern / Viktoriaplatz. (PDF; 653 KB) IVS Documentation Canton Bern. In: Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland IVS . Federal Roads Office FEDRO , November 2001, p. 3 , accessed on August 10, 2017 : "Importance national"

Guy Schneider: Historic traffic routes in the canton of Bern BE. (PDF; 4.3 MB) Bernese bridges: diversity of materials and shapes. In: Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland IVS , canton booklets. Federal Roads Office FEDRO , 2003, p. 64, pages 42–49 , accessed on 10 August 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Kornhausbrücke (Bern) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kornhausbrücke. In: Structurae
Information about the Kornhausbrücke on g26.ch ( Memento from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Kornhausbrücke in the interactive IVS - GIS of the federal government

credentials

↑ Operation + maintenance. In: bern.ch. City administration of the city of Bern, accessed on January 29, 2018 .
↑ Eurosonderweg. In: NZZ Folio . March 2015, accessed on October 26, 2018 (name changed to Ponte del Granio ).
↑ The only true direction. In: NZZ Folio 4/2015, accessed on October 26, 2018.
↑ Tifosi seize Bern's Kornhaus Bridge. In: 20min.ch . July 2, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 .
↑ Christoph Hurni: Korenhuisbrug sign. In: Flickr . April 25, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 (photo).

[1] Operation + maintenance. In: bern.ch. City administration of the city of Bern, accessed on January 29, 2018 .

[2] Eurosonderweg. In: NZZ Folio . March 2015, accessed on October 26, 2018 (name changed to Ponte del Granio ).

[3] The only true direction. In: NZZ Folio 4/2015, accessed on October 26, 2018.

[4] Tifosi seize Bern's Kornhaus Bridge. In: 20min.ch . July 2, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 .

[5] Christoph Hurni: Korenhuisbrug sign. In: Flickr . April 25, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 (photo).