Pont Saint-Michel

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 41 ″  E

Pont Saint-Michel
Pont Saint-Michel
Pont Saint-Michel from Petit Pont seen from
Official name a couple of names
Convicted His
place Paris
Building number 8933
construction Arch bridge , masonry
overall length 62 m
width 30 m
start of building 1378
opening 1857
planner Vaudrey , de Lagalisserie ,
Audrand , Rosier
location
Pont Saint-Michel (Paris)
Pont Saint-Michel

The Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge in Paris . It connects the Place Saint-Michel ( Rive Gauche ) with the Boulevard du Palais on the Île de la Cité .

The Boulevard du Palais then leads north over the Pont au Change to the Place du Châtelet and thus onto the Rive Droite .

location

The bridge starts from Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the Seine and leads to the Boulevard du Palais on the Île de la Cité . It thus connects the 5th and 6th arrondissements , which are on the Boulevard Saint-Michel , with the 1st and 4th arrondissements , which on the other hand meet on this axis. The square and boulevard Saint-Michel were later named after her. The location on the river is described with the Quai des Orfèvres and the Quai des Grands Augustins .

Downstream is the Pont Neuf , upstream the Petit Pont . On the opposite side of the island, the Pont au Change leads to the right bank ( Rive Droite ).

Name origin

It owes its name to the neighborhood of a chapel in the Palais royal (today: Palais de Justice with the Sainte-Chapelle in the southeast), which is dedicated to the Archangel Michael .

technical description

The Pont Saint-Michel is a brick arch bridge . It spans the Seine over a length of 62 m. The bridge has three arches with a uniform span of 17.20 m and is a total of 30 m wide. In addition to the 18 m wide carriageway, there are 6 m wide sidewalks on both sides.

history

In 1378 it was decided to build a bridge that would connect the former Palais Royal on the Île de la Cité with the left bank of the Seine. The first bridge, which, like all Seine bridges of its time, was equipped with houses, was built under Charles VI. built. It bore several names in the years that followed. So it was called Pont-Neuf , Neuf-Pont or Pont Saint-Michel . The bridge suffered severely from melting floods and was rebuilt from wood around 1408 including the houses on it. However, the structure collapsed on December 9, 1547 after several ship crashes, killing 17 people.

The bridge, which was built on this site two years later, only lasted until 1616. It and several houses on it were destroyed again by a strong ice drift on the Seine. It was then replaced by a stone structure with four arches, built between 1618 and 1624. The two side arches had a span of 10 m. The arch field on the downstream side was decorated with a bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIII. Mistake.

The Pont Saint-Michel was the last bridge in the city that had houses on it. In 1808 these were finally demolished. The narrow width and the old age of the bridge led the city administration to decide in 1855 to have the bridge rebuilt. In 1857 this project was put into practice. The engineers Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Paul Vaudrey designed the Pont Saint-Michel, which has been preserved to this day. This design contained only three elliptical masonry arches with a span of 17.20 m to reduce the number of river piers.

Since the bridge during the Second Empire under Napoléon III. was built, the pillars are still adorned with the distinctive Napoleonic "N", which is surrounded by a laurel wreath.

It received its final name from its proximity to the Saint-Michel chapel.

On October 17, 2001, the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, inaugurated a plaque on Pont Saint-Michel commemorating the Paris massacre . This is the name given to a bloodbath of peaceful demonstrators in Paris on October 17, 1961 during the Algerian War (1954–1962) by the Paris police . The police brutally attacked an unauthorized demonstration by tens of thousands of Algerians under a shooting order , which the Algerian independence movement FLN had called. Current estimates assume that at least 200 people were killed. They were shot and killed during the night and some were drowned in the Seine .

See also

Web links

Commons : Pont Saint-Michel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It was first called Petit Pont, then Petit Pont Neuf and finally Pont Neuf.
  2. ↑ There were several reconstructions, the last one is from 1857.
  3. ^ Chapelle Saint-Michel du Palais sur Wikia .
  4. ↑ Bert Eder: 50 years later: Nobody counted the victims . In: The Standard . October 21, 2011