Pont de Vieille-Brioude
Pont de Vieille-Brioude (Vieille-Brioude Bridge) is located in France, crossing the river Allier. It is a masonry arch bridge with a span of 45 metres (148 ft) that was built in 1832.[1]
The predecessor of this bridge on the same site was probably built in 1479 and had a span of 54 metres (177 ft), making it the longest existing arch span for some three hundred years.[2] The bridge was ordered by local resident Lady de Dombes and built by Grenier and Estone similar to how Pont Grand (Tournon-sur-Rhône) was later built.[3] The completion of the bridge was delayed for years because of some controversy. The bridge was too narrow,[4] and its approaches were too steep to be used by carts. It collapsed on 27 March 1822, at 6 am.
Before any stone bridge had been built on this site, there was a wooden bridge.
See also
[edit]Other very large medieval bridges
- Puente del Diablo (Martorell) (37.3 m span)
- Ponte della Maddalena (37.8 m span)
- Puente de San Martín (Toledo) (40 m span)
- Nyons Bridge (40.53 m span)
- Pont du Diable (Céret) (45.45 m span)
- Castelvecchio Bridge (48.70 m span)
- Pont Grand (Tournon-sur-Rhône) (49.20 m span)
- Trezzo sull'Adda Bridge (72 m span, but only fragments remain)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Structurae [en]: Vieille-Brioude Bridge (1832)
- ^ Structurae [en]: Vieille-Brioude Bridge ( 15th century )
- ^
Cresy, Edward (1847). An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical and Practical. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. pp. 253.
vieille brioude bridge.
- ^ Gostling, Frances Marion. Auvergne and Its People. Elibron Classics. p. 159. ISBN 1-4021-5315-5.