Raging Bruck'n
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 29 ″ N , 15 ° 3 ′ 26 ″ E
| Raging Bruck'n | ||
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| Convicted | pedestrian | |
| Subjugated | Guggibach | |
| place | Precious scrap | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 11.50 m | |
| Load capacity | 10 t | |
| opening | June 20, 2001 (after renovation) | |
| construction time | 1816 | |
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| Above sea level | 713 m above sea level A. | |
The Ströhberne Bruck'n ( High German Stroherne Brücke ) is a historic wooden bridge in the market town of Edelschrott in the Austrian state of Styria . The name refers to the former thatched roof .
location
The bridge is located north of the Herzogberg, an eastern foothill of the Styrian Rand Mountains . It spans the almost 4 km long Guggibach immediately before its confluence with the Teigitsch dammed up to the Hirzmann reservoir . The footbridge is located around 1500 m south of the community capital Edelschrott.
history
As early as the 17th century, a thatched wooden bridge led across the Teigitsch between Edelschrott and the Herzogberg. The baroque cartographer Georg Matthäus Vischer recorded the transition in 1678 in his "New Map of the Duchy of Styria" as "Ströhebruck". In 1809 the French troops advancing under Napoleon in the course of the Fifth Coalition War approached the bridge. According to a legend, however, the soldiers turned around out of concern about their heavy military equipment when they heard about the Ströhberne Bruck'n and suspected a bridge made of straw. The current bridge dates back to 1816 and had to be relocated to the nearby Guggibach when the Hirzmannsperre was built .
description
The construction of the bridge is a double hanging structure with 2 hanging columns in the third points. The original 14-meter-long bridge was in 1949 in the translocation shortened m to its present location by 2.5. In addition, the load-bearing capacity of the construction was increased by installing double trusses below the walkway. Over time, the bridge could no longer withstand motorized individual traffic, so that the construction of a new car bridge over the Guggibach became necessary. Its position only a few meters next to the old bridge led to its visual impairment and therefore caused criticism.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the decaying Ströhberne Bruck'n was in a desolate state. The moss-covered thatched roof appeared to have collapsed along the ridge zone and the load-bearing timbers threatened to rot due to the lack of weather protection. After Ernst Lasnik had already campaigned for the preservation in 1997, the International City Forum Graz reported on the bridge and finally managed to renovate the building with funds from the Revitalization Fund of the State of Styria and the Federal Monuments Office . Students from the Ortwein School in Graz created the inventory and a digital model of the bridge, which was then dismantled by the Armed Forces' Jäger Battalion 18 for the renovation work . During the reconstruction, the later added trusses were dispensed with. On June 20, 2001 the renovated Ströhberne Bruck'n was ceremoniously reopened. The last renovation took place in 2014, whereby a roof variant made of reed was chosen because there are hardly any thatchers left . The engraving from the year of construction in 1816 can still be seen today on two original larch wood beams.
Despite the historical and architectural value stated by Ernst Lasnik and Hasso Hohmann , the bridge has not yet been placed under monument protection.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b There's a lot to see in Edelschrott ... The Ströhberne Bridge. Edelschrott community , accessed on June 14, 2017 .
- ^ A b Ernst Lasnik : 177 West Styrian Treasures. An art and culture guide through the Lipizzaner homeland. V. f. Collector, Graz 2014, p. 41. ISBN 978-3-85365-273-2 .
- ↑ Manfred Lukas: The Teigitsch. Small river with great energy. Self-published, Graz 2001, pp. 60–63.
- ^ A b Hasso Hohmann : Ströhberne Bruck'n. In: ISG-Magazin 1/2000, pp. 14–15. Available online at austria-forum.org
- ↑ Hasso Hohmann : Ströh Berne Bruck'n rehabilitated (essay). Austria Forum , accessed on June 13, 2017 .