Skywalk
With Skywalk a bridge-like structure is for building access or as an observation tower called, irrelevant whether as a part of the building or in the field. In tourism, the name is particularly used for extremely exposed structures, some even with a glass floor.
The following constructions can be summarized under the term:
- an above-ground, weather-protected footbridge , specifically called a skyway . Examples:
- Skywalk between the Hannover Messe / Laatzen train station and the Hanover exhibition center
- Skywalk Spittelau in Vienna
- a weather-protected elevated transition between two buildings or parts of buildings, also also English Skyway called
- Balcony-like viewing platforms and / or amusement attractions in contemporary skyscraper construction:
- Skywalk on the Canton Tower
- Skywalk on the Jinmao Tower in Shanghai
- a viewing platform or a bridge - / web -like structure with tourist benefits in the landscape, mostly on canyon edge or on cliff edges, examples:
- Grand Canyon Skywalk
- Skywalk Allgäu in Scheidegg
- Skywalk Bavarian Forest, Eck-Riedelstein, Arnbruck / Arrach, see Arrach # buildings
- Skywalk in the Hohe Wand Nature Park
- Weser-Skywalk on the Hanoverian cliffs near Bad Karlshafen
- Skywalk Biggeblick over the Biggesee in the district of Olpe
- Dachstein Skywalk at the summit station of the Dachstein-Südwandbahn cable car from Ramsau am Dachstein
- 5 Fingers am Krippenstein , a 2,108 m high panoramic mountain on the northern edge of the Dachstein Mountains in Upper Austria
- AlpspiX on the Osterfelderkopf at the foot of the Alpspitze
- Skywalk in Kirchberg an der Pielach
- Raiffeisen Skywalk on the Mostelberg near Sattel
- Glass bridge over a canyon in the Zhangjiajie National Park in Hunan, China
- Viewing platform on the Sonnenstein (Ohm Mountains) near Holungen
- Skywalk footbridge of wishes on the Leuchtenburg in Thuringia , part of the exhibition Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg
Web links
Compilations:
- Do you want to go high? The 7 most spectacular skywalks in the world! Tendl on checkfelix.com, November 30, 2011.
- Skywalk with a panoramic view of the abyss. The most spectacular glass viewing platforms in China and worldwide , on chinareise.com (as of 2014).
- The highest viewing platforms in the world . H.-W. Rodrian on t-online.de, srt, May 4, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2351692/ At a height of 340 meters: walking across Shanghai without a railing, orf.at, July 29, 2016, accessed July 29, 2016.
- ↑ Glass bridge in China closed after the onslaught of visitors orf.at, September 2, accessed September 2, 2016.
- ^ Website of Porzellanwelten Leuchtenburg. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .