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Pilgrimage to the chapel of bridges Technical data: -Running height 1.50 m above the water -Costs of CHF 3'050'000.-(funded from donations) -841-metre-long and 2.40m wide -233 Piles 7 to 16m long, 36-70cm thick -415m 3 oak -61 tonnes of steel galvanized and duplexiert History A PIER IS BUILT You wrote the year 1350, Rapperswil was destroyed in Zurich under Rudolf Brun. You wrote the year 1358, Rapperswil has already lived and flourished. Rapperswil's ruler was Duke Rudolf of spirited, completed the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. He had just acquired old-Rapperswil, the March, the Wägital, Wollerau and Bäch for 1100 silver marks. It now included the bold plan, connecting the new territories through a bridge to Rapperswil. So the road could be increased, and farmers from the March he saw already with their grain and the other fear arable to Rapperswil on the market come. It had to be the city only welcome! It may be that Rudolf has also thought of the pilgrims. So moved because builders with the fins on the Lake and searched for the little deep points between Rapperswil and Hurden. The plan for the bridge was built, and on July 24, 1358, the men rammed the first oak piles in the lake bed. The 546 pillars were braced, and they laid footpath on the 1850 steps shops loosely above the bar. The boards were firmly made, a storm may one day threw the whole bridge into the Lake; but the wind could tip a maximum individual stores in the waves. Built for two years, then the traffic could be released. Vehicles could not drive initially over the bridge, because he was too narrow for them; the bridge was open only to humans and animals. As we marveled at the work of Rudolph; It was a miracle at that time (info from <a href="http://www.rapperswil.ch" target="_blank">www.rapperswil.ch</a> )

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