Editing Covered bridge (section)

=== Europe ===
The oldest surviving truss bridge in the world is the [[Kapellbrücke]] in Switzerland, first built in the 1300s. Modern-style timber truss bridges were pioneered in [[Switzerland]] in the mid-1700s.<ref name="brit-timber">{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/technology/bridge-engineering |title=Bridge - Timber truss bridges |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=9 January 2019}}</ref>
Germany has 70 surviving historic wooden covered bridges.<ref>{{cite report|url=https://intrans.iastate.edu/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/Caston_GermanysHistoricCoveredBridges.pdf |title=Germany's Historic Wooden Covered Bridges Still Standing |date=6 June 2013 |author=Philip S. C. Caston}}</ref>
*The [[Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen]] spans the river [[Rhine]] from [[Bad Säckingen]], Germany, to [[Stein, Aargau|Stein, Switzerland]]. It was first built before 1272, and has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.
* Switzerland has many timber covered bridges,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://swiss-timber-bridges.ch/ |title=Swiss Timber Bridges}}</ref> including [[Kapellbrücke]], [[Spreuer Bridge]], and [[Neubrügg]].
* The [[Ponte Coperto]] in [[Pavia]] is a stone and brick arch bridge over the [[Ticino (river)|Ticino]] River in Pavia, Italy. The previous bridge, dating from 1354 (itself a replacement for a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] construction), was heavily damaged by [[Strategic bombing during World War II|Allied bombing]] in 1945. A debate on whether to fix or replace it ended when the bridge partially collapsed in 1947, requiring new construction, which began in 1949.