Clamp bridge
The Schellenbrücke ( Swiss German "Schällebrugg" ) is a stone bridge in Küttigen in the Swiss canton of Aargau .
history
The bridge was built from 1804 to 1810 by convicts from the cantonal prison in Baden . The workers lived in the nearby "Schellenhaus" during construction. Schallenhaus or Schellenhaus is an old word for penal institution or penitentiary, as the convicts used to wear a device with one or more bells.
From 1823 to 1923 a regular horse mail drove from Aarau via the Schällebrugg to Stein , then the post bus to Frick . 1919–1912 the course of the line was corrected (adaptation to car traffic: construction of the dam instead of the Schellenbrücke and the new Stockstrasse in Rombach). At the end of the 1990s, the bridge was paved as it served as an entrance to a construction site. It is located in the extension of the new Staffeleggstrasse at the Gibel, before it bypasses the Schellenbrücke over a dam and overcomes the steep incline that follows. Paul Haller mentions the bridge in his poem De Nussbaum a dr Schällebrugg.
Varia
The “Schellenbrücke-layer”, “Couche de Schellenbrücke” or “Schellenbrücke-Bank” was named after the bridge. This is a geological layer Aargauerstrasse Jura consisting of lime or eisenoolithischem marl , wherein limonite - Onkoide diameter of several centimeters in a micritic are matrix. The roof surfaces of the bank often contain limonitic crusts, which often have the character of endostromatolites.
Individual evidence
- ↑ School material of the village school Küttigen from 1998, signed: «KW 98» (Kurt Wullschläger?)
- ↑ Swiss Idioticon . Volume II, Sp. 1728, Article Schallenhūs ( digitized version ) and Volume XVI, Sp. 1250, Article Schallenwërch ( digitized version ).
- ↑ De Walnut a dr Schällebrugg . ( Wikisource )
- ↑ Schellenbrücke Bank. Lithostratigraphic Lexicon of Switzerland
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '26.1 " N , 8 ° 3' 15.4" E ; CH1903: 646454 / 252750