Stephansbrücke

Stephansbrücke
	Stephansbruecke from the south
use	Brennerstrasse B182
Crossing of	Ruetz
place	Unterberg
construction	Arch bridge
overall length	69 m
Clear width	44 m
height	36 m
start of building	1842
completion	1846
	location
Above sea level	708 m above sea level A.

47.210944444444 11.38925 708Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 39 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 21 ″ E

The Stephansbrücke is a bridge on Brennerstrasse B 182 in Tyrol . It crosses the Ruetz near Unterberg in the municipal areas of Schönberg and Mutters before it flows into the Sill .

history

Inscription plaque on Brennerstrasse about the construction of the Stefansbrücke

The 36 m high St. Stephen's Bridge , built from 1842 to 1846, is the largest preserved stone bridge in Austria . The foundation stone was laid by Archduke Stephan of Austria in 1843. At the time of construction, at 43.63 meters, it was the largest and widest single arch bridge in the monarchy and the third longest in the world. The construction was planned by the engineer Leonhard von Liebener and carried out under the architect Alois Haas . The massive semicircular stone arch is made of Höttinger breccia , which was brought to the construction site in large cuboids by horse and cart across Brennerstrasse from Hötting . The bridge in the late classical style is under monument protection (entries Mutters / Schönberg ).

In 1879 the vault cover was removed and replaced by a relief vault. Due to the heavy traffic, the bridge was heavily loaded and particularly attacked by road salt and was extensively renovated from 1993 to 1996 in coordination with the Federal Monuments Office .

Surroundings

The Ruetz power plant is located on Römerstrasse near St. Stephen's Bridge . The residual water of Ruetz, which now not from ÖBB - Kraftwerk Fulpmes is used under the flowing Stephan bridge.

The well-known Gasthaus Stefansbrücke is located at the Stephansbrücke , not far from it is the Gasthof Schupfen , the headquarters of Andreas Hofer in 1809.

The Unterberg-Stefansbrücke stop is served by individual trains of the S-Bahn Tirol on the Brennerbahn near the Stephansbrücke .

literature

Martin Aschaber, Günter Guglberger, Karl Sporschill: Bridges in Tyrol . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4957-8 , p. 144-145 .
Christoph Bertsch (ed.): Historical industrial architecture Tyrol - South Tyrol - Vorarlberg. Institute for Art History at the University of Innsbruck, exhibition catalog No. 2, Innsbruck / Bozen 1991, pp. 82–83
One-arch stone bridge, Stefansbrücke (Schönberg) and one- arch stone bridge, Stefansbrücke (Mutters). In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved January 1, 2014 .

"Stefansbrücke" - stone bridge over the Ruetzschlucht in Schönberg (1842) , cultural area Tyrol