Gurlaina Bridge

The Gurlaina Bridge is a steel high bridge and crosses the Inn near Scuol. The bridge, built in 1905, is one of the landmarks of the town and from the bridge you can enjoy a beautiful view over Scuol and the Inn Valley.

Gurlaina Bridge, Schuls / Scuol
The Gurlaina Bridge (Rhaeto-Romanic in the idiom Valader Punt da Gurlaina) is a high bridge reserved for non-motorised traffic in the Lower Engadin capital of Scuol and at the same time one of its landmarks.
The bridge rests as a steel structure on two concrete pillars clad in exposed masonry. It is covered with wooden planks. It stretches from the north-west to the south-east from the Chantröven district across the Inn to the Gurlaina forest that gives it its name and the campsite there. It serves as an important pedestrian connection between Scuol and Vulpera and gives hikers access to the Clemgia Gorge.
Bosshard & Cie. The 150 meter long bridge built in Näfels, which rises 35 meters above the Inn, was built as an articulated girder with three openings and variable truss height. The suspended center piece with curved lower girders is 36 meters long and weighs 460 hundredweight. The middle section was mounted on an emergency bridge directly above the water level, then pulled up on steel wire ropes on October 7, 1905 and hung in the previously mounted side sections.
The Gurlaina Bridge was inaugurated on December 17, 1905 with processions from the S-charl valley and from Scuol, which met in the middle of the bridge. The bridge was an expression of the heyday of the Scuol hotel industry in the years before the First World War. On December 13, 1905, the Engadiner Post described the bridge as follows: "It is a structure that is as elegant as it is bold and will not only offer great convenience, but will also be one of the first sights in the whole area." In the early days, private individuals had to pay a usage fee of 20 centimes.
In April 2020, a renovation of the bridge was started, but this was interrupted due to the damage found. For the future of the bridge, the municipality of Scuol envisages four variants: Variant 1 includes a thorough renovation, for which the three steel bridge parts would have to be dismantled with a special crane and repaired in Gurlaina. Variant 2 consists of a new bridge on the old foundations. Variant 3 provides for the bridge to be demolished, while variant 4, like variant 1, envisages renovation, but in this case the bridge would be made narrower.
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The Gurlaina Bridge (Romansh in the idiom ValladerPunt da Gurlaina) is a high bridge reserved for slow traffic in the Lower Engadine capital of Scuol and is also one of its landmarks.The bridge is a steel structure resting on two concrete pillars clad in exposed brickwork. It is covered with wooden planks. It stretches from northwest to southeast from the Chantröven district across the Inn to the Gurlaina forest that gives the bridge its name and the campsite there. It serves as an important pedestrian connection between Scuol and Vulpera and provides hikers with access to the Clemgia Gorge.The 150-meter-long bridge, built by Bosshard & Cie. in Näfels and rising 35 meters above the Inn, was built as an articulated girder with three openings and variable truss height. The suspended middle section with curved lower girder is 36 meters long and weighs 460 hundredweight. The middle section was mounted on an emergency bridge directly above the water level, then on October 7, 1905, it was pulled up on steel wire ropes and hung on the previously mounted side sections. de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurlainabr%C3%BCcke