Anichkov Bridge

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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 30 ° 20 ′ 36 ″  E

Anichkov Bridge
Anichkov Bridge
Anichkov Bridge
Official name Аничков мост
use cars
Crossing of Fontanka
place Saint Petersburg , (Russia)
overall length 54.6 m
width 37.9 m
completion 1716 (wooden bridge), 1785 (stone bridge with turret), 1841
location
Anichkov Bridge (Saint Petersburg)
Anichkov Bridge

The Anichkov Bridge ( Russian Аничков мост ) in Saint Petersburg crosses the Fontanka River in the course of the Nevsky Prospect .

It was after the lieutenant colonel named engineer Mikhail Anichkov, the first wooden bridge in 1715 with his engineering battalion Anitschkows still on the orders of Peter I had built. A new stone building with turrets from the end of the 18th century had to give way to a widening around 1840 that was adapted to the increasing traffic and the dimensions of the Nevsky Prospect. The heavy railing of the bridge, made of cast iron, is based on the design of the Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the Berlin Palace Bridge from 1824.

The bridge is internationally known for the four groups of sculptures in a sequence of the bronze " horse tamers " by the Baltic German sculptor Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg . Art History, the figure motives of the Roman monumental sculptures of stem Dioskuren from that in the reconstructed re-erection of Dioskurenbrunnens on the Quirinal all later sculptors in Rome were well known. The Parisian horse tamers by Guillaume Coustou (1743–1745, originally Marly , then Avenue des Champs-Élysées , originals today in the Louvre ) are likely to have given immediate inspiration .

The neighboring Anitschkow Palace on Nevsky Prospect, built in 1754, was named after the bridge .

In 1941, during the Leningrad blockade , the bridge was heavily shelled by German artillery . To protect the figures, they were buried in the garden of the Anichkov Palace. However, the bridge itself was badly damaged. During the reconstruction, the decision was made not to remove the damage caused by the exploded grenades on a figure pedestal and instead to leave it as a reminder of the war. This fact is explained to passers-by with a sticker attached there.

Sculpture "Rossbändiger"

See also

Web links

Commons : Anichkov Bridge  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration on the official city portal of the city of St. Petersburg.