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Chapel Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge crossing the Reuss diagonally in Lucerne. It takes its name from nearby St. Peter’s Chapel.

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  • Seventeenth-century paintings illustrate Lucerne’s history.
  • The Water Tower has served as a prison, torture chamber, municipal archive and treasury.

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  • Painted panelsLook in the rafters for scenes of 12th-century city life and Swiss history, including stories of St. Leger and St. Maurice. Photographs of the originals replaced destroyed painted panels.Inside the bridge, in the rafters.
  • Water TowerSee the octagonal tower, which remains in its original condition.Beside the bridge, roughly halfway across.
  • Charred painting remnantsSee blackened original paintings marking the boundary between surviving and rebuilt sections.At the two joins between preserved and reconstructed sections.

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  • The Water Tower is closed to visitors.

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  • During carnival, protective carnival pictures cover the historic paintings, hiding the usual panels.

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  1. 270 metres

    The bridge originally stretched more than 270 metres; today it measures 204.7 metres.

    Kapellbrücke - Wikipedia
  2. 34.5 metres

    The Water Tower is 34.5 metres tall and predates the bridge by about 30 years.

    Kapellbrücke - Wikipedia
  3. Triangulated trusses support the bridge on piled trestles.

    Kapellbrücke - Wikipedia
  4. City council members who sponsored paintings could have their coats of arms added to the panels.

    Kapellbrücke - Wikipedia

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История

A fire in 1993 damaged the bridge and paintings.

  1. c.1365The bridge was built as part of Lucerne’s fortifications.
  2. 15th centuryBenches made the bridge a place for people to gather.
  3. 1611Town chronicler Renward Cysat finalised his ideas for the painting cycle.
  4. 17th centuryPainter Hans Heinrich Wägmann and his four sons received the commission. The paintings included Catholic scenes from the Counter-Reformation.
  5. 1646The paintings were first restored.
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  1. 1741–42A flood damaged four pillars, and part of the weakened bridge collapsed. Repairs followed.
  2. c.1835The riverbank was filled in, shortening the bridge by about 75 metres.
  3. 1869The municipal council defeated a proposal to remove the bridge over concerns about water flow.
  4. 18 August 1993The fire spared only the two bridgeheads and Water Tower. Of the original 158 painting panels, 147 remained before the blaze; 110 were affected.
  5. 14 April 1994After eight months of rebuilding, the bridge reopened to pedestrians and was dedicated.
  6. After the 1993 fire–1998Forty-seven painting remnants were recovered after the fire; 30 paintings had been restored by 1998.
  7. 2014Voters rejected an initiative to hang 146 copies of the bridge paintings.

Как добраться

  • ПешкомThe bridge links the Lucerne Theatre on the south bank with St. Peter’s Chapel on Rathausquai, between the Seebrücke upstream and Rathaussteg downstream.

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