History World Monument

The advertisement took place in the summer 1928. Two months later the Kantonale was board of works in the possession of 19 projects for a Tobeluebergang. One preferred the most favorable offer of the company Prader, although one trusted the unusually slim construction not quite. It acted thereby around the project of Robert Maillart, which had once more succeeded to find by most economical use of the at that time very expensive material reinforced concrete the most economical bridge solution. The building was assigned to the offered overall sum of Fr.135.000. - -. The much-considered falsework of Richard Coray cost further Fr. 45.000. - -. In the late summer 1929 it was tied by only six workers on an enormous tearing soil in the proximity of the today's parish meeting hall and set up in the steep Tobel. The wood need amounted to approximately 700 m3 and could be covered from municipality-own woodlands. The concreting work took place 1930 in the unbelievably short time from only three months. The entire concrete material was mixed by hand and supplied with Karretten. The most delicate phase was the casting of the thin elbow plate, which had to be absolutely symmetrically accomplished without interruption from both sides and after 40 hours of laborious work was completed. In the middle of August 1930 could the falsework be lowered and the building traffic be handed over. In the history of the bridge construction art the Salginatobelbruecke is long a boundary stone. Their revolutionary construction set new accents and affected civil engineers in all continents. The three-articulated elbow wing unit forms a rigid hollow box starting from the quarterly points to the vertex: Gewoelbe, side panels and roadway are to a slim unit fuse in reverse taper enormous recesses of the side panels the elbow to the supports. The optical effect is captivating - like an enormous wind dog the bridge jumps to the perpendicular cliff. The unverzierte clarity of the form dissolved in thin plates and disks inspires specialists and laymen equally and works timeless modern. Reinforced concrete was used never before more economically and more elegantly. Today is the Salginatobelbruecke more well-known ever. Daily visitors commit the particularly provided "historical round path Salginatobelbruecke", which follows the old Schuderser seam path to a large extent and leave themselves from the bold situation of the world-famous building to inspire. Large hinweistafeln at the village entrances as well as sign-postings in the village show the way to this bridge experience of the special kind. The visitor platform, been on an exposed rock projection/lead, offers a singular panorama. During the construction period one did not suspect international attention yet, which attention this masterpiece large Swiss of the technical designer and reinforced concrete pioneer Robert Maillart (1872 - 1940) once would come. The great falsework of the Buendner Brueckenbauers Richard Coray already received much admiration, and with interest native ones pursued like specialists from the in - and foreign country the concreting work. All large newspapers of the country brought reports to the inauguration, whereby the new construction was praised throughout and as exemplary was designated. But the special of this high ravine transition went forgetting outside of the experts gradually - the separatingness in the wild Salginatobel and the circumstance that each bridge a utilizable's building is finally, contributed to it. On the other hand the building found rapidly to introduction into numerous specialized books and at technical universities soon as epochale engineer achievement was considered and studied. The filigrane appeared repeated to reinforced concrete bridge at art exhibitions, and its unmistakable silhouette became a symbol for modern architecture. 1991 took place then the honor to the Worldmonument. Scarcely 10 years later a further honor took place: The renowned British technical periodical "BRIDGE - Design and engineering" asked world-wide thirty well-known technical designers and architects for the most beautiful bridge 20. Century. The Salginatobelbruecke went clearly into guidance before that golden to gate Bridge into San Francisco and numerous further famous bridges.