Rudolf Brun Bridge
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 28 " N , 8 ° 32 ′ 32" E ; CH1903: 683354 / 247646
| Rudolf Brun Bridge Urania Bridge |
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| Official name | Rudolf Brun Bridge | |
| use | Road traffic, connection Uraniastrasse - Mühlegasse tram, connection route Uraniastrasse (from 1914 to 1989) |
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| Crossing of | Limmat | |
| place | Old town (District 1), Zurich | |
| construction | Plate bridge | |
| overall length | 80.3 m | |
| Number of openings | 7th | |
| Clear width | Main openings: 12.9 m, side openings: 4 m |
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| Pillar strength | Main pillar: 1.2 m. Side pillar : 1.5 m |
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| Construction height | 1.4 m | |
| building-costs | 1.55 million francs | |
| construction time | New building: 1911–1913 Replacement: 1989–1991 |
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| architect | Gustav Gull | |
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The Rudolf-Brun-Brücke crosses the Limmat in Zurich . It is named after Rudolf Brun , the city's first mayor. Until 1951, it was after the Urania Observatory as Urania bridge called. During the planning of the town house complex on the left bank of the Limmat, the name town house bridge was also used.
history
At the place of the Rudolf-Brun-Bridge there was already a Limmat crossing, the Obere Mühlesteg, in 1394 . The name differentiated it from the Untere Mühlesteg , which was roughly between today's Mühlesteg and the station bridge . The town's mills and industrial plants were located on both piers.
After the turn of the century, the city decided to build a new traffic axis from Bahnhofstrasse over the Limmat to Seilergraben and at the same time to build a new 400 m long townhouse complex on the left side of the Limmat. The first part of the traffic axis was the Uraniastrasse opened to traffic in 1905, the continuation of which was to be the Uraniabrücke to be built at the place of the Upper Mühlesteg. The editors of the Schweizerische Bauzeitung were bothered by the newfangled name Uraniabrücke for the time . She wanted a traditional name for the bridge, such as Mühlebrücke , Oetenbachbrücke , Lindenhofbrücke or Predigerbrücke .
By 1910, the city had acquired the two mills and an industrial company on Obere Mühlesteig so that nothing stood in the way of building the bridge. The budget for the construction was 1.55 million francs.
Construction began in 1911. The pillars were built using caissons . In 1913 the structure was opened to traffic. From 1914 to 1989 the bridge was also provided with tram tracks, which belonged to the rarely used connecting route Uraniastrasse. This connection between Bahnhofstrasse and Limmatquai allowed the trams to bypass the station bridge. However, this option was hardly used.
From 1989 to 1991 the bridge was replaced by a new building in the same shape.
In 1997, the SP councilor Dominik Schaub applied to consider changing the name of the bridge, as Rudolf Brun is considered to be a beneficiary of the anti-Jewish pest pogrom in February 1349. Schaub suggested naming the bridge after Rabbi Moses ben Menachem, the author of the influential Talmud commentary, Zürcher Semak , who was one of the victims in 1349. The municipal council rejected the proposal.
Building
The reinforced concrete slab bridge designed by Gustav Gull has five large openings of 12.9 m clear width and two small openings of 4 m on the banks. The bridge's flow profile was designed for a flood of 282.5 m³ / s. The stone parapet of the bridge with rosettes matches the style of the parapets on the office buildings I, II and III on the left side of the Limmat, which also come from Gull.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gustav Gull: Project for the development of the Werdmühle and Oetenbach area . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . 1905, doi : 10.5169 / seals-25476 .
- ↑ Reconstruction of the "upper Mühlesteg" in Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 51 , 1908, pp. 275 ( e-periodica.ch ).
- ^ Urban building issues in Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 56 , 1910, pp. 271 ( e-periodica.ch ).
- ↑ Limmatbrücke on oberene Mühlested in Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 57 , 1911, pp. 14 ( e-periodica.ch ).
- ^ A b Cornelia Bauer, Hanspeter Rebsamen, Jan Capol: Zurich . In: Inventory of recent Swiss architecture (INSA), 1850-1920: Cities . No. 10 , 1992, Zurich, p. 392 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-10931 .
- ^ Postulate: Rudolf-Brun-Brücke, renaming , on gemeinderat-zuerich.ch, accessed on July 11, 2020.
- ^ Georg Kreis: Divided and common Swiss history. Perspectives on “Villmergen” and similar constellations . In the S. (Ed.): Prehistory to the present. Selected articles Volume 6, Basel 2013, pp. 31–51, here p. 49 note 51.