Versamer Tobel Bridge
The Versamer Tobelbrücke (also Versamerbrücke and Versamer Brücke ) is located half a kilometer as the crow flies northeast of the village center of Versam in the Graubünden Surselva in front of the entrance to the Safien Valley . As part of the Versamerstrasse , it spans the Rabiusa , which flows through the Versamertobel (also known as the Versamer Schlucht ) and flows into the Vorderrhein at the Ruinaulta .
Bridge until 2012
The old structure is a three-hinged arch - iron bridge of 70 meters in length, 1897 for a falsework of Richard Coray was built. Since the completion of today's bridge in 2012, it has been preserved for non-motorized traffic and as a witness to the steel bridge construction of the 19th century.
Bridge from 2012
On November 15, 2010, construction work began on the new bridge, which is a little further up the valley and was put into operation in June 2012. This bridge design in the form of a reinforced concrete - blasting work is 112 meters long and 8.8 meters wide. The previous weight restriction of 13 tonnes for trucks on the route between Bonaduz and Versam was no longer applicable.
Historic bridge
Between 1828 and 1896 there was a wooden bridge with a span of 66 meters, which was constructed by Richard La Nicca . This bridge collapsed in 1896 due to architectural miscalculations.
literature
- From 2012, only bicycles will drive over the Versamer Bridge , in: Die Südostschweiz, November 16, 2010, p. 7 ( Internet version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Versamertobel, falsework on: Swiss Timber Bridges - The Swiss wooden bridges by Werner Minder
- ↑ Rabiusabrücke on: Swiss Timber Bridges - The Swiss wooden bridges by Werner Minder
- ↑ Jürgen Brunner: The construction of wooden bridges in Switzerland . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Supplement to Discussion Report No. 5 of the Eidgenössische Materialprüfungsanstalt at the ETH in Zurich: "SIA-Norms für Holzbauten", Zurich 1925, p. 41, Fig. 68
Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '43.2 " N , 9 ° 20' 26" E ; CH1903: seven hundred forty-five thousand one hundred and ninety-one / 184444