Rheintal service area
The Rheintal motorway service station (formerly also Werdenberg motorway service station) is located on the A13 ( E 43 ) next to the embankment of the Alpine Rhine in the area of the political municipality of Sevelen in the canton of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ) or vis-à-vis the main town of the Principality of Liechtenstein , Vaduz .
Location and operator
The motorway service station is the only one in Switzerland that borders the Principality of Liechtenstein and it is located at the lowest point in the municipality of Sevelen at 451 meters above sea level . Shortly after the Rheintal service station upstream, the A13 connects to the A3 motorway and continues to Chur or Zurich or, if you look downstream, to Buchs and on to St. Margrethen .
The service area is open every day and is handicapped accessible and suitable for car and truck traffic. Both service areas have a 24-hour petrol station. A direct view of Vaduz Castle is possible from the Rheintal-Werdenberg West service area .
The service area is operated by Raststätte Rheintal AG (formerly: Werdenberger Autobahnraststätte AG).
Footbridge
The wooden bridge ( passerelle ) is the work of civil engineer Walter Bieler from Bonaduz in collaboration with the architects Christoph Mathis ( Zurich ), Paola Maranta / Quintus Miller ( Basel )
Structural dominant for the appearance of the rest area is a more than 100 m long wooden pedestrian bridge over the four-lane highway, which connects the eastern and the western rest area over three fields. A striking element of this bridge are the large, directly lined up, double-sided windows, which allow a view and give the bridge an architectural lightness and simplicity . The bridge over the highway on both sides by two Sockelbauten (with elevator to reach) of the respective car parks.
- Civil engineer: Walter Bieler Bonaduz
- Architects: Christoph Mathis ( Zurich ), Paola Maranta / Quintus Miller ( Basel )
- Construction type: Cantilever bridge ( Gerber girder bridge)
- Bridge type: covered wooden bridge
- Year of construction: 1989
- Reference: 1990
- Construction time: 6 months
- Construction costs: about CHF 3,985,000.00 ( EURO 3,200,000.00)
- Length: 103.0 m
- Span: 29.40 m
- Width: 1.8 m
- Height: 2.4 m
- Substructure (supports): concrete
- Roof covering: flat sheet
- Facade cladding: cover strip formwork
- horizontal wind bracing : panels made of laminated veneer lumber.
Due to the slim design and the length of over 100 m over a motorway, the wooden bridge is a distinctive feature of the Rheintal motorway service station. The construction as a narrow, covered wooden pedestrian bridge connects historically and architecturally to the nearby Old Rhine Bridge Vaduz – Sevelen (1870/71), which is the last remaining wooden bridge that crosses the Alpine Rhine . The respective span of the bridge elements is designed similarly (Pasarelle: 29.40 m, Old Rhine Bridge 20.5 to 26.8 m). The choice of wood as a construction material ties in with the centuries-old tradition and art of wood construction in the region.
literature
- In a straight, simple line across the motorway. in: Bauen mit Holz, No. 10/1991, pp. 727–728
- Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 3/1992 (online)
- Swiss Working Group for Wood Research (ed.): Bridges and footbridges made of wood. Zurich 1989, p. 109 ff table of contents
- 9th International Wood Construction Forum - Wooden Bridges - A Cultural Mission, p. 5
Web links
- Rheintal service area .
- Excerpt from the commercial register of the operating company .
- ETH Zurich on the architects and their projects.
- NZZ “ Architectural Essences” , the Basel architects Quintus Miller and Paola Maranta maintain a quiet dialogue with the place designed by Roman Hollenstein.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commercial register number: CH-320.3.026.632-1, Commercial Register Office St. Gallen .
- ↑ Raststätte Rheintal AG belongs to the Thurau group, which also operates the Thurau ( Wil ) and Walensee ( Unterterzen ) motorway service stations in Switzerland .
- ↑ a b Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 3/1992 (online)
- ↑ NZZ, Roman Hollenstein, "Architectural Essences"
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '46 " N , 9 ° 30' 2" O ; CH1903: 756 378 / 223736