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113.2 CH-ZH

Treaty between the Cantons of Zurich and Schaffhausen concerning the construction of a movable bridge over the Rhine between Flaach and Rüdlingen and the correction of the Rhine thereat

9 Articles / Provisions · Switzerland · Canton of Zurich
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1 The maintenance of the bridge will be provided by Zurich, while Schaff-

hausen will bear one quarter of the costs.

2 The bank protection at the abutments is the responsibility of the respective

cantons.

§§ 3 and 4.

1 For the correction of the Rhine, the riverbanks marked in red in the plan annexed to this

present treaty shall be decisive.

2 The normal width of the river between these lines is set at

450 feet.

1 Each of the contracting parties is free to erect the necessary embankments within its territory as needed and to advance them up to the correction line, but not beyond it.

2 On the correction line, only parallel embankments are permissible; any cross-dams shall slope gently down to the height of those bank embankments.

§§ 7 and 8.

As the future border between both cantons, the

center of the new Rhine riverbed, according to the dashed-dotted line marked in the plan,

is adopted.

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Rhine Bridge between Flaach and Rüdlingen

This boundary line shall be fixed for the future by means of hintermarches [secondary boundary markers], and these latter shall be designated in the boundary protocol to be drawn up as well as in the plan already mentioned multiple times. An exemplary copy of the latter, acknowledged by both, shall be delivered to each of the two contracting parties.

Hydrotechnical works in the normal riverbed, meaning in the space between the two banklines, may only be undertaken with the consent of both contracting parties.

1 The boundary relations between the municipalities of Flaach

and Rüdlingen remain unaffected by this treaty, so that the properties

located on the left bank of the Rhine, belonging to the municipality of Rüdlingen,

in the so-called Stäubisallmend, as shown on the

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