Tösssteg Winterthur-Wülflingen
Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '8 " N , 8 ° 41' 28" E ; CH1903: 694362 / two hundred and sixty-two thousand and forty-two
| Tösssteg Winterthur-Wülflingen | ||
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| use | Footbridge | |
| Crossing of | Töss | |
| place | Winterthur - Wülflingen | |
| Entertained by | City of Winterthur | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 48 m | |
| width | 2.4 m (vertex) | |
| Longest span | 38 m | |
| Arrow height | 3.5 m | |
| Arch thickness (vertex) | 14 cm | |
| building-costs | 15,800 CHF | |
| start of building | 1934 | |
| completion | 1934 | |
| construction time | 2 months | |
| architect | Walter Pfeiffer | |
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| Above sea level | 423 m | |
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The Tösssteg Winterthur-Wülflingen is a pedestrian bridge over the Töss in Winterthur - Wülflingen in the Swiss canton of Zurich . It was created in 1934 according to plans by the architect Walter Pfeiffer . The federal government lists the pedestrian bridge as a B object in the inventory of cultural assets of national and regional importance and as an object of national importance in the inventory of historic traffic routes in Switzerland .
Creation
The plans for the bridge came from Walter Pfeiffer . Robert Maillart , to whom the bridge is often ascribed and whose bridges also served as a model, participated in the construction with an expert opinion on the bridge, which convinced the city council to draw up a loan application. The bridge was built back then as a job creation measure.
The construction of the bridge, which cost 15,800 francs at the time (today 130,967 francs adjusted for inflation) took two months. The execution of the bridge consisting of a stiffened arch and reinforced concrete was carried out by A.-G. Wülflingen construction business taken over.
architecture
The curved bridge with an arrow height of 48 meters long and includes a roadway 2.4 to 3 meters wide near the two banks. In the middle of the bridge, the bridge girder merges with the 14 centimeter thick stiffening arch. The 54 centimeter high stiffening beam also serves as a base for the railing, the design of which also follows the oscillation of the bridge. The bridge has a slight counter-curvature at both ends, which has meanwhile been cut off on one side by widening the Schlosstalstrasse so that the bridge opens directly into the sidewalk there.
With regard to the bridge, Max Bill spoke of "a lightness of its appearance and an appealing naturalness, as if it had grown there itself and had searched through the connection across the river". Also Mirko Roš (1879-1962), a professor of materials science at the ETH Zurich and director of the EMPA , described the bridge in 1945 on the occasion of stress testing as a "remarkable example of local reinforced concrete -Kunst". According to David P. Billington , the counter-curvature of the bridge is the decisive element for its integration into the environment.
The bridge was last renovated in 2002, with the last construction defects being remedied in 2004.
Web links
- Pedestrian walkway Schlosshof in Winterthur Glossary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ B objects ZH 2018 . Canton of Zurich KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (the changes for 2018 are marked in blue). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 473 kB, 17 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
- ↑ a b Inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland (ed.): Inventory sheet ZH 671 . 2001, p. 3 ( data.geo.admin.ch [PDF; 256 kB ; accessed on June 27, 2019]).
- ^ Günschel Günter: Great constructors . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1966, ISBN 978-3-0356-0007-0 , pp. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Peter Marti, Orlando Monsch, Birgit Schilling: engineering concrete . Ed .: Society for Civil Engineering. vdf Hochschulverlag AG of ETH Zurich, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-7281-2999-2 , p. 158–159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Schlosshof footbridge in the Winterthur Glossary.