Kornhaus Bridge (Zurich)
The Kornhausbrücke is as arch bridge running road bridge in Zurich that the industrial area (5 circuit) with the neighborhood Unterstrass ( circuit 6 connects). It is named after the connection across the Limmat to the grain houses on Limmatplatz . The Kornhausbrücke leads over the Sihlquai, the Limmat, the Letten Canal ( Letten hydropower plant ), the Fahr -Weg monastery , the Wasserwerkstrasse and the former Letten railway line .
history
The connecting axis between Kornhausstrasse and Kornhausbrücke was planned back in 1899. The then building authority I found that there was no need for such a bridge. The Wipkingen Citizens' Association and the Industriequartier quarter association campaigned for this bridge over the Limmat because many people worked in the industrial quarter and lived in Wipkingen ( District 10 ) on the other side of the Limmat. They submitted a petition to the city council with 10,000 signatures. In 1927 a concrete bridge was planned for 1,880,000 francs. On May 20, the voters approved the property loan. In April 1923 the winning project perpendicular to the Limmat by the architect P. Giumini and engineer E. Rathgeb emerged from 25 projects.
Construction began in 1928 and the bridge was completed in 1929. For the construction, the company Heinrich Hatt-Haller AG created a 111.4 meter long wooden falsework with three wooden yokes in ring dowel construction, which was later demolished. The three wooden bays had a span of 33 meters (over the Letten or Wasserwerk Canal), 52.9 meters (over the Limmat) and 25.5 meters (over the Sihlquai). The roadway is at the highest point of the main arch about ten meters above the low water of the Limmat. During the construction of the bridge, care was taken to ensure that it did not have a gradient of more than six percent because the plan was to later cross a tram line. On May 18, 1930, the Kornhausbrücke was inaugurated with a parade.
During the Second World War , the Kornhausbrücke was prepared as an explosive object in order to destroy this important and efficient transport axis over the Limmat in the event of an imminent attack on the Limmat line by enemy troops. The explosive object (M 2311) replaced the original tank barricade (T 2484) and was declassified in March 2004 and later dismantled.
The Lux Guyer -Weg, inaugurated in 1995, leads along the former railway line from the Kornhausbrücke to the youth culture center Dynamo .
Urban cliff jumping
With a height of around ten meters, the Kornhausbrücke is a popular place for cliff jumping , as is the nearby facilities of the Letten power station . The riverside paths and the river bath "Oberer Letten", which is only 100 meters upstream, and the sunbathing lawn opposite offer an ideal grandstand for hundreds of spectators. Access to the Kornhausbrücke is via the “Lux Guyer Weg” stairs at the bike park.
literature
- Steffen Lindig: The traffic floods and floods: The solution is forwards: For the construction of the Kornhausbrücke and the reconstruction of Limmatplatz 1928–1930. Zurich 1987.
Web links
- Structurae: Kornhausbrücke Zurich
- [1] Westnetz from August 16, 2013: The 13 bridges and footbridges of Zurich-West
- Historical pictures of the Kornhausbrücke on Alt-Züri
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss construction newspaper. Kornhausbrücke over the Limmat in Zurich. Volume 81/82, Issue 16, 1923
- ↑ Werner Minder: The Swiss wooden bridges: Falsework of the Kornhausbrücke.
- ↑ Local info Zurich West from May 20, 2015: Celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Kornhausbrücke.
- ↑ Alt-Züri: Kornhausbrücke
- ^ Dürst, Köfer: The defense works of the city of Zurich - The Zurich bunker guide.
- ↑ Cliff jumping from the Kornhausbrücke on YouTube
- ↑ Cliff jumping at the Letten power station
Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '8.5 " N , 8 ° 31' 59.3" E ; CH1903: 682 645 / 248895