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Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen (German name) or Säckingerbrücke (Swiss name) is a
bridge A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...
over the
Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
. It connects the German city of
Bad Säckingen Bad Säckingen (; High Alemannic: ''Bad Säckinge'') is a rural town in the administrative district of Waldshut in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is famous as the "Trumpeter's City" because of the book ''Der Trompeter von Säckin ...
with the village of
Stein Stein may refer to: Places Austria * Stein, a neighbourhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria * Stein, Styria, a municipality in the district of Fürstenfeld, Styria * Stein (Lassing), a village in the district of Liezen, Styria * Stein a ...
in Switzerland. The
covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
spans over the Hochrhein and is the longest roofed wooden bridge in Europe. The bridge is listed as a national registered monument in Switzerland (Kulturgut von nationaler Bedeutung im Kanton Aargau). The bridge was built in 1272 and was destroyed several times (1570, 1633, 1678). The current bridge was completed in 1700. Originally a road bridge, the bridge is now only open for
pedestrians A pedestrian is a person traveling on foot, by wheelchair or with other mobility aids. Streets and roads often have a designated footpath for pedestrian traffic, called the ''sidewalk'' in North American English, the ''pavement'' in British Eng ...
since the Fridolinsbrücke (Swiss name: Rheinbrücke Stein) was opened in 1979 for road traffic. File:120827-Bad-Säckingen-04.jpg, inside File:120827-Bad-Säckingen-03.jpg, Entrance in Switzerland File:120827-Bad-Säckingen-05.jpg, Entrance in Switzerland File:120827-Bad-Säckingen-06.jpg, The boundary line in the middle of the Rhine


See also

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List of bridges over the Rhine This is a list of bridges over the River Rhine, both present and past. The Rhine is divided into sections (from source to delta): ''Vorderrhein'' / '' Hinterrhein'', Alpine Rhine (), '' Seerhein'' (between the lower and upper Lake Constance), ...
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List of bridges in Germany This list of bridges in Germany lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Historical and architectural interest bridges {{ro ...
* List of bridges in Switzerland *
List of international bridges An international bridge is a structure that provides transportation across border Borders are generally defined as geography, geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by polity, political entities such a ...
*Other big wooden bridges in Switzerland **
Kapellbrücke The () is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss (river), Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland. Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior painting ...
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Auguetbrücke The Auguetbrücke is a bridge over the Aare between the municipalities of Muri bei Bern and Belp in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. During the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century, four ferries crossed the Aare river between Bern ...


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