Technical Data of the Salginatobelbridge
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The building was comprehensively restored 1997/98. In the background: The falsework of Richard Coray.


Construction: Three-hinged arch with concrete joints, as box girders
Building material: Steel-reinforced concrete
Overall length: 132.30m
roadway broadly: 3.50m
Upward gradient roadway 3% or 3.97m
Span of the elbow 90.04m
Arrow height: 12.99m
Dimensions of the base plate 0.40 x 6.00m, in the vertex 0.20 x 3.80m$
Carrying capacity: 8t or 350 kg/m2$
Height over water 90m$
Project: Engineer office Maillart, Geneva
Execution: Florian Prader & Cie., Zurich/ Geneva
Falsework: Stand enterprise Richard Coray, Trin$
Construction period: 1929 / 30
Total costs: 130`000.- (CHF)