Bridges Brücken Ponts: Covered Bridge / Gedeckte Bruecke Across Rio Plima...

Covered Bridge / Gedeckte Bruecke

Across Rio Plima /Ueber den Plimabach

5 comments so far...

Fizgig June 28, 2017, 04:22 PM

Not too many of these types of bridges in Europe --- the US is famous for 'em =) Nice find & capture...

Sonja June 29, 2017, 03:17 PM

Huh? ;o) It's a swiss export item!!! Just don't tell your President...

This one is rather new as when you started to build yours europe mostly retired the technology, so we have comperably few ancient ones left, especially outside swizzerland, but in the last 30 years or so the covered bridge was rediscovered especially for hiking trails crossing smal rivers or foottraffic connectors in towns, so they got numerous again. But there are some famous old ones, covered bridges by far elder than the ones in the USA. Ever heared about the bridges of Bad Saeckingen, Luzern or Schwaebisch Hall?

Madison County of course became synonymous with the things for many europeans too, must be the fault of that terribly boring movie that is actually about Clint Eastwood snogging the cover off some unhappy married woman, not a bridge....

Fizgig June 29, 2017, 04:04 PM

Well, that's what I meant.... The US has more of them still in existence. Of course they're not unique to the 'states seeing as how the immigrants brought their building skills & ideas with them from Europe ;)

Anyway.... They're neat lookin' things.... Some of ours are even said to be haunted. Fun, fun...

Andy Rodker June 29, 2017, 06:55 PM

A nice shot of a structure new to me - the dialogue above helped explain!

Sonja June 30, 2017, 08:54 AM

I thought in the USA a lot where also torn down before heritage considerations would safe some, it is just that from the mid 18th to late 19th century in Europe already almost none got built anew whilst the rural wooded areas in the USA with their rather conservative emigrants had their peak so late. Covered bridges then had been usually folk architecture, timber work constructed by the best village carpenters, not designs by famous engineers inventing new technologies to span distances in an elegant innovative manner like the first steel cable or pure concrete bridges. They are badly suited to car traffic and if they are very long, they usually look funny, with the really medieval long ones the only exception.
When we are at ghosts and stuff, you really should see the ancient covered bridge of Lucern and the famous danse macabre in there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreuer_Bridge