Luding Bridge
The Luding Bridge ( Tibetan : ལྕགས་ ཟམ , legend after Wylie : lcags-zam ; Chinese 泸定桥 , Pinyin Lúdìng Qiáo ) in Luding County (Cagsam), Sichuan, China, is a chain bridge over the Dadu River ( Dadu Hey ).
The bridge was built in 1706. Its span is 100 m, it is 2.8 meters wide and about 14 meters above the water. It consists of a total of 13 iron chains, each of which weighs 2.5 tons, and which are anchored in huge stone pillars. Nine chains drawn parallel from bank to bank are covered with wooden planks, 2 chains on each side serve as railings. At the beginning of the 20th century, the bridge was renovated, reinforced and supplemented by the side chains.
The capture and crossing of the bridge by soldiers of the People's Liberation Army at the end of May 1935 is one of the great, legendary heroic deeds of the Long March . This enabled the troops to escape pursuing Kuomintang troops.
The bridge has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-22) since 1961 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manfred Gerner: Chakzampa Thangtong Gyalpo - Architect, Philosopher and Iron Chain Bridge Builder translated from German by Gregor Verhufen. The Center for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan, 2007. ISBN 99936-14-39-4 , p. 93
- ↑ german.china.org.cn - Retrieved October 29, 2010
Coordinates: 29 ° 54 '52.2 " N , 102 ° 13' 48.6" E