Talfer Bridge

View of the Talfer Bridge

The Talferbrücke ( Italian Ponte Talvera ) is a bridge over the Talfer in the South Tyrolean capital Bozen . It connects the districts of Zentrum-Bozner Boden-Rentsch and Gries-Quirein . It is a five - arched truss bridge made of cast iron , which is 132 meters long and twelve meters wide.

history

In the years 1899–1900, the Bozen city administration under Mayor Julius Perathoner had the Waagner-Biro company build the Talfer Bridge. It replaced the old, already dilapidated wooden bridge resting on stone yokes , which had connected the rural community of Gries with the central town of Bozen since the early 19th century . Older Talfer bridges have been documented as early as the 14th century (around 1383 a city builder responsible for the Eisack and Talfer bridges is named).

Tram on the Talfer Bridge (1910)

From 1907 until it was closed in 1948, the Bozen tram crossed the Talfer Bridge.

According to the - albeit not realized - plans of Marcello Piacentini in the late 1930s, the "new" Talfer Bridge was to give way to a Ponte Claudio and form the link to the new Greater Bozen, planned by Italian fascism, in the formerly independent municipality of Gries. The bridge had to be closed from 1975 due to overload; A citizens' initiative was able to prevent the planned demolition, and after extensive renovation, the building was opened to traffic again in 1990.

Web links

Commons : Talferbrücke - collection of images, videos and audio files

Talferbrücke on atlas.arch.bz.it
The Talfer Bridge is being renovated . City of Bolzano, August 21, 2018

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , Sp. 400-401 .
^ Georg Tengler: The Bolzano Tram. For the 75th anniversary of the year it was built . Ed .: Heimatschutzverein Bozen. Bolzano 1984 ( OBV ).
↑ Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , The “brave new world” on the Talfer, p. 122 (with contemporary master plan) .

46.500254 11.346834Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 48.6 ″ E

[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , Sp. 400-401 .

[2] Georg Tengler: The Bolzano Tram. For the 75th anniversary of the year it was built . Ed .: Heimatschutzverein Bozen. Bolzano 1984 ( OBV ).

[3] Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , The “brave new world” on the Talfer, p. 122 (with contemporary master plan) .