Thur Bridge Andelfingen
Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '49 " N , 8 ° 40' 53" E ; CH1903: 693 469 / two hundred and seventy-two thousand five hundred and fifty-two
| Thur Bridge Andelfingen | ||
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Subjugated | Thur | |
| place | Kleinandelfingen and Andelfingen | |
| construction | Wooden bridge in hanging and truss design with stone piers | |
| overall length | 71.85 m | |
| Number of openings | 2 | |
| Longest span | 31.10 m | |
| Load capacity | 28.0 t | |
| start of building | 1814 | |
| opening | 1815 | |
| planner | Cantonal master builder Hans Konrad Stadler | |
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| Above sea level | 363 m | |
The Thurbrücke Andelfingen is a covered wooden bridge in the Zürcher Weinland in Switzerland . The bridge, built in 1815, spans the Thur and connects the two villages of Kleinandelfingen and Andelfingen .
construction
The bridge was built in the usual construction of covered wooden bridges with hanging and trussing . It has a length of 71.85 meters. The central pillar is made of stone and the two spans are 31.10 meters each. The bridge is covered with a hipped roof and can only be used in one lane. Traffic is regulated with a traffic light system.
history
The first Andelfingen bridge was first mentioned in a document in 1324. The Rheinau monastery gave at that time the Fährrecht and bridge tolls of Andelfingen. In 1488 Zurich acquired the customs and bridge from the Rheinau fiefdom holder Beringer von Hohenlandenberg . In the following centuries the bridge was structurally changed several times.
In the war year 1799, France and Austria fought for the most important Thur crossing on May 25 in the Second Coalition War. The French fired their cannons from the height of the castle on the imperial batteries set up north of the Thur. The Austrians finally set the contested bridge on fire. The current covered bridge was only built in 1814/15 as a replacement.
In 1979 a pedestrian walkway was added.
Nachbachbrücken
The old covered wooden bridge from 1815 was no longer sufficient for the growing traffic in the 1950s. The building department of the canton of Zurich therefore announced a public competition in 1954 for the construction of a new bridge over the Thur valley. This should form the core of the planned bypass road of the district capital Andelfingen as part of Hauptstrasse 15 . In 1958 the new Weinland Bridge was inaugurated east of the existing bridge . Today the A4 motorway runs through it . In 2000, the new bridge on Hauptstrasse 15 followed in parallel.
The Andelfingen railway bridge of the Rheinfallbahn (from Schaffhausen to Winterthur ) , built in 1857, and the Thurbrücke Ossingen , built in 1874 on the Winterthur – Etzwilen line, cross the Thur even further east .
See also
Web links
- Martin Illi: Thurbrücke Andelfingen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .