Covered Bridge - Examples of Covered Bridges

Examples of Covered Bridges

There are about 1600 covered bridges in the world.

• Canada: the Hartland Bridge is the longest covered bridge in the world. In 1900, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario had an estimated 1000, 400, and five covered bridges respectively. By the 1990S there were 98 in Quebec, 62 in New Brunswick, and one in Ontario, the West Montrose Covered Bridge.
• China: covered bridges are called lángqiáo (廊桥), or "wind and rain bridges" in Guizhou, traditionally built by the Dong. There are also covered bridges in Fujian. Taishun County, in southern Zhejiang province near the border of Fujian, has more than 900 covered bridges, many of them hundreds of years old, as well as a covered bridge museum. There are also a number in nearby Qingyuan County, as well as in Shouning County, in northern Fujian province. The Xijin Bridge in Zhejiang is one of the largest.
• Germany: Holzbrücke, over the river Rhine from Bad Säckingen, Germany, to Stein, Switzerland (picture), first built before 1272, destroyed and re-built many times.
• Switzerland has many timber covered bridges: Bridge over the river Muota, Brunnen, near Lake Lucerne (picture), Berner Brücke/Pont de Berne over the Saane/Sarine, near Fribourg, (picture), Kapellbrücke.
• USA: The FHWA encourages the preservation of covered bridges with its Covered Bridge Manual. There are bridges in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia