Chapel Bridge
Sign in to saveThe '''''' () is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the 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 paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in a 1993 fire. Subsequently restored, the Kapellbrücke is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, as well as the world's oldest surviving truss bridge. It serves as the city's symbol and as one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions
Key facts
- Bridge.name
- Kapellbrücke
- Bridge.native_name_lang
- de
- Bridge.other_name
- Chapel Bridge
- Bridge.starts
- Kapellplatz/Rosengart-Platz, Altstadt
- Bridge.ends
- Bahnhofstrasse/Theaterplatz
- Bridge.named_for
- Named after St. Peter's Chapel
- Bridge.image
- Kapellbruecke.JPG
- Bridge.caption
- The Kapellbrücke in Lucerne with its Wasserturm (water tower) seen in the middle.
- Bridge.crosses
- Reuss
- Bridge.locale
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- Bridge.carries
- Pedestrian
- Bridge.owner
- City of Lucerne
- Bridge.heritage
- Cultural Property of National Significance
- Bridge.id_type
- A
- Bridge.preceded
- Seebrücke
- Bridge.followed
- Rathaussteg
- Bridge.design
- Covered Wooden Footbridge
- Bridge.material
- Wood
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The '''''' () is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the 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 paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in a 1993 fire. Subsequently restored, the Kapellbrücke is the oldest wooden covered bridge in Europe, as well as the world's oldest surviving truss bridge. It serves as the city's symbol and as one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions.
==History== thumb|Painting by John Ruskin in 1861, Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour Part of the bridge complex is the octagonal tall (from ground) "Wasserturm", which translates to "water tower," in the sense of "tower standing in the water." The tower pre-dated the bridge by about 30 years. Over the centuries, the tower has been used as a prison, torture chamber, and later a municipal archive as well as a local treasury. Today, the tower is closed to the public, although it houses a local artillery association and a tourist gift shop.