Bahnhofbrücke () is a

road A road is a thoroughfare used primarily for movement of traffic. Roads differ from streets, whose primary use is local access. They also differ from stroads, which combine the features of streets and roads. Most modern roads are paved. Th ...

and

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

way bridge over the river

Limmat The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, continuing a further 35 km until it reaches the river A ...

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

, Switzerland.

Geography

Bahnhofbrücke means 'railway station bridge' in German, referring to the adjacent

main railway station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

of Zurich which is situated outside of the city's historical core of the medieval town. The bridge crosses the left-hand (western) and right-hand (eastern) bank of the

, opposite of Zürich Hauptbahnhof (Zürich HB) and connects the main railway station, the Central square,

Limmatquai ''Limmatquai'' () is a street in the Switzerland, Swiss city of Zurich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about through the ''Altstadt (Zürich), Altstadt'', or historical core, of the c ...

and the City and Unterstrass quarters.

Transportation

The Zurich tram lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 15, and the local VBZ bus lines 31, 33, 34 and 46 provide public transportation, as well as

Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft The Lake Zurich Navigation Company (, ZSG) is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Zurich () and the river Limmat in Zurich.The company's services connect lake-side towns between Zurich and Rapperswil/ Schmerikon, i ...

(ZSG) and its Limmat tour boats towards

Zürichhorn Zürichhorn is a river delta on Zürichsee's eastern shore in the lower basin of the lake. The area is part of the parks and quays in the Seefeld (Zürich), Seefeld quarter of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. The gardens are one of the most popu ...

and Landesmuseum. Private road transport towards Limmatquai, the largest pedestrian zone of Zurich, is restricted to the short roadway towards the Brunbrücke and Uraniastrasse (

Urania Sternwarte Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in the Lindenhof quarter of Zurich, Switzerland. Its name ''Urania'' refers to the muse of astronomy in Greek mythology. It features a restaurant (main building) and a bar with panoramic view (tower). ...

) at the site of the former

Oetenbach nunnery Oetenbach was a Dominican Order, Dominican nunnery in the medieval Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Zürich in Switzerland. Oetenbach was named after the small stream of the same name at its first location at Zürichhorn, s ...

; and also road transport between Central–Bahnhofbrücke and the Bahnhofquai and Bahnhofplatz squares is allowed.

History

The construction works started in 1847, named in 1863, and in 1871 it was extended according to the plans of

Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in ...

by the architect F. Wanner. Redesigns of the Central–Bahnhofbrücke area occurred in 1950–51.

Literature

* ''Das Limmatquai vor und nach der Neugestaltung. Aufenthaltsnutzung, Fuss- und Veloverkehrsaufkommen im Vergleich der Jahre 2004-2005-2008''. Published by Tiefbau- und Entsorgungsdepartement der Stadt Zürich, Zürich 2009.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Quaibrucke Bridges in Zurich Altstadt (Zurich) Bridges completed in 1847 Bridges over the Limmat Road bridges in Switzerland Railway bridges in Switzerland Pedestrian bridges in Switzerland 1847 establishments in Switzerland 19th-century architecture in Switzerland