The Aareinsel in Lauffohr

Part of the small island (Aareinsel) to the north of the bridge between Lauffohr and Vogelsang. Look at this map on Google to see what I mean: link. What's labelled as Lauffohrstrasse is the bridge (well, it's still the old bridge on the satellite images, the new bridge is longer and curved).

Some construction details about the bridge:
October 2007: date the old bridge was demolished and construction started on the replacement
Concrete: material of construction
225 m: length of the bridge
1 month: length of time the contruction was completed before schedule (!)
380 tons: amount of reinforced steel used (1 metric ton = 1000 kg = 2205 lbs)
520 tons: amount of pavement
2: number of columns in the water
(Source: www.azonline.ch)

I don't have any good photos of the bridge to show here. For some beautiful nighttime images of the thing, see these photos by Grendel here and here on Flickr.

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