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Ganter Bridge

multi-span reinforced concrete S-curve road bridge, designed by Christian Menn and completed 1980 across the Ganter River valley near Brig, Valais, Switzerland
Place Prestressed Concrete Bridge Q378688

Facts

17 properties

Designation

Instance of
prestressed concrete bridge, highway bridge, cable-stayed bridge[4][5]
Heritage designation
class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance[13]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.296°, 8.051°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ried-Brig[2]
Street address
Simplonstrasse[18]

Period and style

Inception
1980[10]
Architect
Christian Menn[6]
Made from material
reinforced concrete[8]
More facts +8
Part of
list of cultural properties in Ried-Brig[9]
Appears in the heritage monument list
list of cultural properties in Ried-Brig[17]
Clearance
+145[16]
Crosses
Ganterbach[7]
Length
+678[14]
Longest span
+174[15]
Number of spans
+8[12]
Structural engineer
Christian Menn[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ganter Bridge de Ganterbrücke fr pont du Ganter ja ガンター橋
🔖 Identifiers · 8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Gantertalbruecke02.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM project ID
58265
Brueckenweb ID
314
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Ganter-Bridge
Freebase ID
/m/04_0z68
GeoNames ID
7282682
PCP reference number
9077
Structurae structure ID
20000026
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Architect 1
Christian Menn
Country 1
Switzerland
Instance of 1
cable-stayed bridge
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Ried-Brig
Made from material 1
reinforced concrete
Structural engineer 1
Christian Menn
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Summary

Ganter Bridge is a prestressed concrete bridge[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · AnBuKu · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Appears in the heritage monument list → list of cultural properties in Ried-Brig
    Made from material → reinforced concrete
    Length → 678 metre
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Ried-Brig
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim: Heritage designation: class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance"
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