Russeiner Bridge
Coordinates: 46 ° 43 ′ 18 " N , 8 ° 53 ′ 46" E ; CH1903: seven hundred eleven thousand four hundred twenty-six / 175534
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| Official name | Russeintobel Bridge | |
| use | Pedestrian | |
| Convicted | Russeinerbach | |
| place | Disentis / Mustér - Sumvitg | |
| construction | Covered bridge with Howe girders | |
| overall length | 61 m | |
| width | 4.2 m | |
| Longest span | 56.2 m | |
| height | 45.5 m above stream | |
| building-costs | 41,000 francs | |
| start of building | January 1857 | |
| completion | November 1857 | |
| opening | November 10, 1857 | |
| construction time | 11 months | |
| Status | Pedestrian | |
| planner | Johann Faller | |
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| Above sea level | 1032 m above sea level M. | |
The Russeinerbrücke ( Rhaeto-Romanic Punt Russein ) and the Neue Russeinbrücke are a wooden bridge and a clamped reinforced concrete arch bridge in the area of the municipalities of Sumvitg and Disentis / Mustér in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland .
history
Wooden bridge from 1857
On January 9, 1857, the Small Council of the Canton of Graubünden decided to build a bridge between the communities of Disentis and Sumvitg in connection with the expansion of the Oberländerstrasse in the Surselva over the Russeinerschlucht. The master builder was the master carpenter Johann Feller from Ilanz. The Russeiner Bridge was one of the first bridges in Switzerland to be built according to the William Howe system. It is under the protection of the Canton of Graubünden.
The wood - 450 logs for the bridge and another 400 for the falsework - supplied the two municipalities involved. The costs for the wood and the transport amounted to 18,900 francs, the construction itself cost 21,900 francs. The bridge was inaugurated on November 10, 1857.
under construction
1890
last trip of the stagecoach after the opening of the
Disentis - Ilanz railway line on
July 31, 1912 with the postillon Julius Anton Nay
After 1938, traffic was led over the newly constructed concrete bridge and the old wooden structure threatened to crumble. School children from the area collected money to save them by going from house to house and reading a poem by the Disentis pastor Giusep Durschei. This commitment prompted residents to found the "Pro Punt Russein" association. Together with the support of the federal government and the canton of Graubünden, the necessary funds for the renovation of the bridge were obtained. In 1981 the bridge was renovated.
Concrete bridge from 1937
In 1937 the construction of a new bridge began, as the old wooden bridge was only approved for vehicles up to a weight of 5 tons, even after it was undressed in 1914.
Others
- A memorial stone was placed next to the bridge in 1873, commemorating the naturalists Arnold Escher von der Linth , Pater Placidus a Spescha and Gottfried Ludwig Theobald .
- The Val Russein Viaduct of the Rhaetian Railway , made of natural stone, was built in 1911.
gallery
former road to the bridge on the west side
Truss with the supporting bars of the reinforcement from 1917
View of the newer road bridge from 1937 and the RhB viaduct
literature
- Paul Caminada: Die Russeinbrücke, SBZ Heft 45, p. 732, Zurich 1975
- The Russein Bridge is to be saved; NZZ No. 290, 12./13. December 1975
- Terra Grischuna , 2/1984
- Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 113/114 (1939), Issue 9
