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Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden is a wooden pedestrian bridge between the city of Rapperswil and the village of Hurden crossing the Obersee (the upper part of Lake Zurich) in Switzerland. On 6 April 2001, the footbridge was opened. With a length of 841 metres (2,759 ft) it is the longest wooden bridge in Switzerland. The wooden bridge has many ...
The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland.Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, [1] the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in ...
The part of the road between Guttannen and Obergoms flooded by the project will be span by a 346 metres (1,135 ft) cable-stayed bridge, to restore the continuity across the lake. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In 2021 a competition was organized to choose the project for the Plessur river valley crossing near Chur in the Grisons canton, in order to relieve the ...
The main sights of Rapperswil are its rose gardens, Rapperswil Castle, the reconstructed wooden bridge to Hurden with its bridge chapel Heilig Hüsli located at Seedamm, the Kapuzinerkloster (Capuchin's monastery), the remains of the Middle Ages fortifications located on Lake Zurich, Lindenhof hill, Herrenberg, Engelplatz, Hauptplatz ...
The most ancient form of timber bridge is the log bridge, created by felling a tree over a gap needing to be crossed. [citation needed] Among the oldest timber bridges is the Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden crossing upper Lake Zürich in Switzerland; the prehistoric timber piles discovered to the west of the Seedamm date back to 1523
The earliest bridge at the location was built in the Roman era, and in medieval Zurich a wooden bridge, called the Obere Brücke (upper bridge), connected the two banks of the Limmat. Between 1836 and 1838, the former wooden bridge was replaced by a stone bridge.
The Hurden peninsula and the Seedamm divide the main part of Lake Zurich from its upper part, the Obersee. The Seedamm runs across an area of shallow water. The Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden, a wooden pedestrian bridge built in 2001, is located to the east of the Seedamm
The Obersee ("upper lake") is the smaller of the two parts of Zürichsee (Lake Zurich) in the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz in Switzerland.. The Seedamm area at Rapperswil and the lake bridge towards Hurden in the middle, Zürichsee and the Lützelau and Ufenau islands to the left, Obersee to the right. 1835 painting by an unknown artist as seen from a location on the Meienberg hill between ...