Brankov most
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 53 " N , 20 ° 26 ′ 54" E
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| Official name | Бранков мост (Brankov most) | |
| use | Street | |
| Convicted | Save | |
| place | Belgrade | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 450 m | |
| Longest span | 261 m | |
| construction time | 1957 | |
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Brankov most ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бранков мост , German: Branko Bridge) is the second longest bridge in Belgrade after the Gazela and connects the core of the Serbian capital across the Sava with the Novi Beograd district .
construction
The bridge replaced the König-Alexander-Brücke , which was opened on December 16, 1934 and destroyed in 1941 , a suspension bridge built by Gutehoffnungshütte . The pylons were 33 meters high above the 12-meter wide carriageway, which included two tram tracks.
During the construction of the new bridge, the substructures of the earlier bridge, decorated by Ivan Meštrović in the Serbian-Byzantine style , were used. On two separate superstructures, it carries a motorway-like road with three lanes in each direction. The second superstructure was completed in 1979.
The bridge is around 450 m long and made of solid steel girders. Their main span is 261 m, the side spans each 75 m. The main girders have a maximum web plate height of 9.6 m above the river pillars. The structure is used by nearly 90,000 vehicles every day and traffic jams are frequent.
The bridge was built in 1956 by the German company MAN . At the time of commissioning, it was the girder bridge with the longest span in the world. The Belgrade company Mostprojekt took on the task of doubling the bridge capacity in the 1970s. Project manager was Danilo Dragojević.
Surname
The name of the bridge is unofficial and comes at the end of a bizarre chain of events. The official name during communist rule was Bridge of Fraternity and Unity (Most bratstva i jedinstva) , but the name did not catch on in the population: it was mostly "Bridge on Branko Street" (after Branko Radičević , a Serbian romantic Poet), or called Savski most / Savabrücke . The name Brankov most finally prevailed after another writer, Branko Ćopić , committed suicide by jumping off the bridge on March 26, 1984.
Web links
- Dražen Ostojić: Fanovi "Stonsa" opasno zaljuljali Brankov most ("Stones" fans rocked the 'Brankov most' dangerously.) Blic online, July 17, 2007 (with explanations of the history and construction of the bridge)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cevovod na Brankovom mostu . Direkcija za građevinsko zemljište i izgradnju Beograda. August 2, 2006. Archived from the original on September 23, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ↑ Malo ih je, ali su značajni ( Serbian ) January 14, 2008. Retrieved on December 14, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Sporno ime mosta ( Serbian ) February 21, 2000. Accessed December 14, 2010.
