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Langwieser Viaduct

single-track railway bridge of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) near Langwies, municipality of Arosa in the canton of of the Grisons, Switzerland
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Summary

Langwieser Viaduct is an architectural structure[1]. It draws 276 Wikipedia views per month (architectural structure category, ranking #195 of 1,822).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Arosa[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: arch bridge[5], railway bridge[6]
  • Architect: Hermann Schürch[7]
  • Maintained by: Rhaetian Railway[8]
  • Owned by: Rhaetian Railway[9]
  • Manufacturer: Eduard Züblin[10]
  • Crosses: Plessur[11]
  • Made from material: reinforced concrete[12]
  • Part of: list of cultural properties in Arosa[13]
  • Commons category: Langwieser Viadukt[14]
  • Inception: July 1914[15]
  • Structural engineer: Karl Arnstein[16]
  • Number of spans: 13[17]
  • Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance[18]
  • Date of official opening: December 1914[19]
  • Length: 284 m[20]
  • Height: 62 m[21]
  • Carries thoroughfare: Chur–Arosa railway line[22]
  • Appears in the heritage monument list: list of cultural properties in Arosa[23]

Why It Matters

Langwieser Viaduct has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20h ago · AnBuKu · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['bg', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'lmo', 'nl', 'ru', '
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance"
  2. 12w ago · Edward · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 24629874
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    Carries thoroughfare → Chur–Arosa railway line
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