Showing posts with label reuss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reuss. Show all posts

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Rail bridge over the Reuss


Not much of the river Reuss is visible from the look-out point on Bruggerberg. This railway bridge is one of the few areas that are.

Impressive HD footage from around the world, shot from helicopters:
Home - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject


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At the Aare in Lauffohr-Vogelsang


Working our way downstream along the Aare from Brugg we arrive in Lauffohr (Vogelsang on the other side). By this time, the river Reuss has already merged with the Aare. There's a crossing over the river here and it has been recently replaced with a new bridge. What you see in this photograph is an natural habitat area for amphibians formed from a diverted section of the river, next to the floodplain area (Auengebiet) of Lauffohr.

This link should take you to the Google map of the area. The image is old and doesn't show the bridge area as it is now.

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Revisiting Lauffohr (view from Rein)


I've written about Lauffohr a couple of times and the last photo was one where the mist was thick over the rivers Reuss and Aare as they merged in the area. The visibility in this photo is actually quite good. Way in the back, center-left is Baden. The white building in the center of the photo, and a couple of the buildings behind it and to the right are ABB factories and such.

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Lauffohr: confluence of the Aare and the Reuss


Here's another photo from a different part of the Wasserschloss region. The Aare flows in from the right, while the Reuss comes down from the left. It would be better to have a panorama of this region but I didn't have a tripod with me at the time.

If you look closely in the left half of the photo you'll notice what looks like a factory. That belongs to ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), a company that is a "global leader in power and automation technologies". Brown Boveri was established in Baden in 1891 and was the first company to transmit high voltage AC power. That's a simplified statement of the complicated history, a little of which can be read at this IEEE site. Asea dates back to 1883, started in Stockholm, Sweden. The two merged in 1988.

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