Mettlen Bridge

Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 7 "  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 20"  E ; CH1903:  748,645  /  244587

Mettlen Bridge
Mettlenbrücke from 1751, covered wooden bridge over the Sitter.
use	Pedestrian
Crossing of	Sitter
place	Appenzell
construction	Covered wooden bridge
overall length	24.5 m
Longest span	22 m
start of building	1751
planner	Hans Ulrich Grubenmann (1709–1783)
location
Above sea level	761  m

The Mettlenbrücke describes the Sitter crossing in the village of Appenzell , in the Mettlen district. It consists of the historic covered wooden bridge and a new reinforced concrete bridge.

Building history

Information board on the bridge

The Sitter crossing at Mettlen is on the old connection route from St. Gallen to Appenzell. The Mettlen Bridge is said to have been built for the first time in 1401 by Abbot Kuno von St. Gallen. According to the entries in the land accounting book of 1526, the bridge in Mettlen was already a covered wooden bridge at that time. On July 26th, 1750, the water tore away the Mettlenbrücke and the chapel standing next to it.

The covered wooden bridge in its current form was built in 1751 by Hans Ulrich Grubenmann . The floods in 1766 and 1846 either severely damaged the bridge or destroyed it completely. This can no longer be clearly established. However, it was either restored or rebuilt in an identical form.

In 1976 the new reinforced concrete bridge was built.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Building bridges. Zeughaus Teufen, Grubenmann Museum, accessed on March 13, 2020 .