Pont d'Iéna
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 35 " N , 2 ° 17 ′ 32" E
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| use | Road bridge | |
| Crossing of | His | |
| place | Paris | |
| construction | Stone arch bridge | |
| overall length | 155 m | |
| width | 35 m | |
| Number of openings | 5 | |
| Longest span | 28 m | |
| start of building | 1808 | |
| completion | 1814 | |
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The Pont d'Iéna is a road bridge over the Seine in Paris that connects the Champ de Mars and the Eiffel Tower with the Palais de Chaillot and the Jardins du Trocadéro .
description
The stone arch bridge is a total of 155 m long and has five flat segment arches with spans of 28 m each and an arrow height of 3.40 m. It was originally 19 m wide, but was widened to 35 m in 1937 by adding concrete arches with the same profiles on separate concrete pillars on both sides. The pillars are decorated with reliefs of the imperial eagle designed by François-Frédéric Lemot . In 1853 statues were added to the four corners of the bridge depicting Gallic, Roman, Arab and Greek warriors each with a horse.
The bridge is listed as a monument historique .
history
The construction of the bridge and its name were ordered by Napoleon in memory of the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt on October 14, 1806. The bridge was built in 1808–1814.
The Prussian Field Marshal von Blücher , one of the participants in the eponymous battle, wanted to have the bridge blown up after the capture of Paris in 1815, but was defeated by King Louis XVIII. persuaded to be content with renaming himself Pont des Invalides and removing the eagles from the bridge. The incident was also an occasion for the king to restore all names of Parisian locations to the status of January 1, 1790. In 1830 the renaming was reversed, in 1852 the eagles were attached again.
At the world exhibition in 1889 , when the Eiffel Tower was opened, it was included in the exhibition grounds and covered with awnings. For the world exhibition in 1900 it was widened by iron pedestrian bridges, which were removed a few years later. For the World Exhibition of 1937 , it was widened on both sides to a total of 35 m by adding concrete arches with the same profile.
Remarks
- ↑ Today Pont des Invalides was until 1878 when the Invalides Hôtel built
Web links
- Pont d'Iéna. In: Structurae
- Pont d'Iéna on LCPC - Bridges of Paris
- Le pont d'Iéna (with historical recordings) on le fil du temps
- Le pont d'Iena on Paris by the Water
Individual evidence
- ^ Base Mérimée
- ↑ Jacques-Antoine Dulaure: Histoire civile, physique et morale de Paris . 3rd edition, Volume 9, pp. 203 f; Baudouin Frères, Paris 1825
- ↑ Johannes Willms: Talleyrand. Virtuoso of Power 1754-1838. Munich 2011, p. 253.
- ↑ Le pont d'Iéna to le fil du temps