The Chapel Bridge – A medieval wooden bridge

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The Chapel Bridge – A medieval wooden bridge

It's not for nothing that the world-famous wooden bridge is the number 1 photo subject in Lucerne and is admired by guests and locals alike. Together with the water tower, it shapes the cityscape like no other attraction.

Today the Chapel Bridge runs from the Lucerne Theater on the south bank of the Reuss past the water tower to St. Peter's Chapel on Rathausquai. However, everyone would have been happy to forego the tragedy, which, among other things, attracted attention around the globe.

Hours of terror
It happened on the night of August 18, 1993, when a large part of the Chapel Bridge burned ablaze. Only the two bridgeheads and the water tower could be saved. The missing part was reconstructed in a record time of eight months, so that the “new” Chapel Bridge could be reopened on April 14, 1994. Hardly any other incident in central Switzerland has moved the world public as much as the burning of the symbol of an entire country. After all, the Chapel Bridge is an incredible 650 years old and in its earliest years not only served as a pedestrian footbridge between the two banks of the Reuss, but was also part of the former city fortifications. The St. Peter's Chapel on the right bank and the no longer existing Freienhof on the left bank formed the bridgeheads. Easily visible from a bird's eye view, the Chapel Bridge and the Spreuer Bridge hold the city together like a staple.

Without a bridge there are no pictures, without pictures there is no bridge
At least as important as the bridge itself is its decoration with an impressive cycle of images, which gave its character the necessary depth. The Lucerne city clerk Renward Cysat (1545-1614) spent years studying the history of ancient Switzerland and Christianity and creating a concept for the picture decoration. The bridge was supposed to tell the story of how a wonderful fate guided all the deeds of the ancient Confederates. Since financing from public funds could not be made possible, all wealthy citizens were called upon to donate one or more food banks. In 1611, Cysat finalized his ideas and work could begin. The pictures were restored for the first time in 1646. From 1726 onwards, a supervisor had to watch over the bridge because the pictures were repeatedly damaged by young people. Before the fire in 1993, 147 of the original 158 pictures were preserved. 110 of them were in the bridge during the fire, around two thirds of which were either completely destroyed or seriously damaged by the fire.

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