Pont de l'Artuby

Pont de l'Artuby
use	Road bridge
Convicted	D 71
Crossing of	Artuby
place	Aiguines - Trigance
construction	Concrete - arch bridge
overall length	approx. 180 m
width	6 m
Number of openings	a
Longest span	110 m
Arrow height	24 m
height	137 m
start of building	1938
completion	1940
planner	Pelnard-Considère et Caquot
	location

43.73 6.3875Coordinates: 43 ° 43 ′ 48 ″ N , 6 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ E

The Pont de l'Artuby , also called pont sur l'Artuby or pont de Chaulière , is a two-lane road bridge that spans the départementale D 71 over the Artuby gorge in the Var department in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur leads. The nearest towns are Aiguines, 22 km away, and Trigance, 13 km away .

description

The Pont de l'Artuby consists of a large reinforced concrete arch with a span of 110 m, on which the deck is lined with slim, unadorned supports . The arrow height of the arch is 24 m. The arch is framed by comparatively slender pillars ; short T- beam bridges mounted on equally unadorned pillars over the side slopes create the connection to the streets.

The bridge is used for bungee jumping . The height of the bridge above the valley floor is usually given as 180 m. Based on the altitude information on a topographic map , it is probably only 137 m.

history

At the end of the 1930s, construction began on the Corniche Sublime (today's D 71) in order to open up the remote area around the Gorges du Verdon for tourism. The necessary bridge over the Artuby was largely completed between 1938 and 1940. However, the work had to be canceled because of the Second World War , so that the route could not be opened until 1946.

The bridge was designed by the Pelnard-Considère et Caquot office and designed by Thorrand et Cie. built from Nice . The falsework was made with two 60-ton truss segments set up, initially on the fighters mounted in a vertical position and were lowered on April 17, 1939 ropes in the bow position above the gorge.

Web links

Commons : Pont de l'Artuby - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ JL: Sur la Corniche Sublime. Article of July 25, 1939 in Le Matin ( digitized on Gallica )
↑ Carte topographique IGN of the Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière in the French geoportal : 735 m - 598 m = 137 m
^ ^A ^b Raoul Bérenguier: You nouveau aux gorges du Verdon. In: La Revue du Touring-club de France , 1939, p. 237 ( digitized on Gallica )
↑ au moyen de câbles, deux cintres de 60 tonnes chacun sont dans une descendus gorge du Var. Article of April 17, 1939 in Le Petit journal ( digitized on Gallica )
↑ Photo series about the insertion of the two halves of the falsework
↑ During the construction of the Paul Sauer Bridge (Storms River Bridge) in South Africa from 1954 to 1956, Riccardo Morandi developed the idea further by lowering the finished arch halves. The procedure was repeated by BUNG engineers at the Argentobel Bridge and is now widely used in China.

[Matin-1] JL: Sur la Corniche Sublime. Article of July 25, 1939 in Le Matin ( digitized on Gallica )

[2] Carte topographique IGN of the Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière in the French geoportal : 735 m - 598 m = 137 m

[Touring-3] A ^b Raoul Bérenguier: You nouveau aux gorges du Verdon. In: La Revue du Touring-club de France , 1939, p. 237 ( digitized on Gallica )

[4] au moyen de câbles, deux cintres de 60 tonnes chacun sont dans une descendus gorge du Var. Article of April 17, 1939 in Le Petit journal ( digitized on Gallica )

[5] Photo series about the insertion of the two halves of the falsework

[6] During the construction of the Paul Sauer Bridge (Storms River Bridge) in South Africa from 1954 to 1956, Riccardo Morandi developed the idea further by lowering the finished arch halves. The procedure was repeated by BUNG engineers at the Argentobel Bridge and is now widely used in China.