Juan Convers

Passerelle des Trois Pays


Last weekend I got up early and went for a bike ride, something I do fairly often when the weather starts warming up. I crossed Basel in the morning when absolutely no one was around and you could hear all the birds singing, arrived at Burgfelderhof, and headed over to buy bread in the French town of Saint-Louis. After crossing through the town, I went to Huningue and then over the famous "Passerelle des Trois Pays" bridge you can see in the photo above, to get into Weil am Rhein and pick up some extra groceries before heading back to Switzerland.

This structure, called the Dreiländerbrücke in German, is a beautiful bridge that crosses the Rhine between Huningue (France) and Weil am Rhein (Germany), and according to Wikipedia, it holds the world record for the longest single-span bridge for pedestrians and bicycles only.