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    BAS 3217
    High bridge
    Brückenbild

    2007

    © Wolfgang H. Woegerer, Wien

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    Austria
    Tyrol
    Stans
    Georg Bach
    Pedestrian
    Covered bridge, gedeckete bridge, truss bridge
    Wood
    1709
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    Wikipedia:<br>The high bridge is a unique building from the time of the medieval mass crowd of pilgrims to the sanctuary of St. Georgenberg in Tyrol. You spans the Gorge of Georg Bach at 40 meters and offers the only way to reach the pilgrimage without climbing.<br>The present stone arch bridge, whose mounted no later than 1497 was built at the new building after a fire, is banked by a wooden 50-metre timber-frame construction. 1515, a gatehouse was built, which was destroyed by an avalanche but in 1689. Already on views that have been created around the middle of the 17th century, the bridge as covered and covered with shingles is represented.<br>After a devastating forest fire that on 31 October 1705, wiping out the former Mountain Monastery for thirty years and a new convent building in the Valley, virtually forced the black master Michael Lentner got the order for a new wooden construction, which he had completed in 1709.<br>A last reconstruction of the gatehouse, required after a fire of 1819, was carried out in neo-Gothic style. [1] Rising and noticeably curved bridge has a roadway width of 4.8 m the 13.5% and a passage height of 2.8 m [2] [3], should not generally be used: the parking for day visitors of the shrine is located about 2 km, longer lasting guests must park their vehicles in the Valley, in the approximately 5 km away Benedictine Abbey of Fiecht,.<br>The high bridge restoration supervised by the Federal Office of monument, Nostra Award has been awarded 2004 the Europe.

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