Bicycle bridge of freedom
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 40 ″ N , 16 ° 57 ′ 49 ″ E
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| Official name | Bicycle bridge of freedom Cyklomost slobody |
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| use | Cyclists, pedestrians | |
| Convicted | March | |
| place | Engelhartstetten - Devínska Nová Ves | |
| construction | steel | |
| overall length | 550 meters | |
| width | 4 meters | |
| Number of openings | 19th | |
| height | 21.3 | |
| start of building | September 2011 | |
| completion | September 2012 | |
| opening | 22nd September 2012 | |
| construction time | 1 year | |
| planner | Milan Beláček | |
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| Above sea level | 136 m above sea level A. | |
The Bicycle Bridge of Freedom ( Slovak Cyklomost slobody ) is a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the March , which leads from the Lower Austrian municipality Engelhartstetten to Devínska Nová Ves , a district of Bratislava in Slovakia . A river crossing through a bridge built in 1771 was at this point until 1880.
The bridge connects the Iron Curtain Cycle Path , which leads south along the March, or the Kamp-Thaya-March Cycle Path and the Marchfeld Canal Cycle Path with the Danube Cycle Path . The river crossing is four meters wide so that emergency vehicles can pass through in an emergency. Of the bridge construction, 62.8% are on Slovak territory and 37.2% on Austrian territory.
history
There was a bridge over the March here as early as the time of Maria Theresa . The bridge, built for the first time in 1771, consisted of brick arches to the left and right of the river. The direct construction above the March was made of wood. This was washed away by an ice rush in 1809 . It was restored by Count Pálffy in 1813. In 1866 it was blown up during the war between Prussia and Austria in order to make the advance towards Vienna more difficult for the Prussians. After an early reconstruction, it was torn away again by an ice rush in 1880 and then no longer rebuilt. Then there was a ferry. The bridge arches on the Austrian bank are still visible in the landscape. In autumn 1918, the border between the Republic of Austria and the Czechoslovak Republic was built on the March, and after 1945 the border barriers on the March completed the Iron Curtain . Crossing the March towards Austria was now life-threatening here until 1989.
In 2010 it was decided to build a bicycle bridge in order to integrate Hof Palace , whose park extends as far as the March, into the cycle path network via Devínska Nová Ves (Theben-Neudorf) to Bratislava (Pressburg) as part of the Cyclomost project (= bicycle bridge) . The groundbreaking ceremony took place in September 2011. The project called CYCLOMOST was financed for the most part from subsidies from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) by the European Union , while Slovakia and Lower Austria only had to make a small contribution. Since the river is border water, patrol boats must also be able to pass. For this reason, the bridge had to have a clearance height of at least six meters.
The Lower Austrian proposal to name the structure Maria-Theresien-Brücke (after Maria Theresa , who was the only woman to be crowned King of Hungary in Pressburg ) was not taken up by the Slovak side. There were irritations when there was an internet vote on naming in Slovakia and the naming after Chuck Norris turned out to be the winner of the vote . However, this solution was not accepted by Slovak politics either. However, months after the bridge was opened, the name Most Chucka Norrisa was on Google Maps .
The bridge opened on September 22nd, 2012 in the presence of the then responsible EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn is now called the Bicycle Bridge of Freedom ( Slovak Cyklomost slobody ) by mutual agreement between Austria and Slovakia . The name is intended to remember the victims who lost their lives while trying to escape through the March to freedom.
Hof Palace was located on the road connection between Vienna and Pressburg around 1873
View of the bridge from the Marchauen in Devínska Nová Ves
An Austrian commemorative plaque by the bridge reads Built 18th century, repaired in 2011
Bridge from below still under construction
View from the bridge to the March
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Web links
- Mosti Cezmoravu ( Slovak ; PDF; 595 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opening of the bridge between Slovakia and (Lower) Austria at Schlosshof on September 23, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2013.
- ↑ Successful bridge across the March to Slovakia in the courier of March 14, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2013.
- ^ Maria Theresia Brücke accessed on August 22, 2010
- ↑ Cross-border cooperation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 22, 2012
- ^ New bridge between Slovakia and Lower Austria on ORF from September 26, 2011
- ↑ Marchbrücke: Chuck Norris lost in the press on September 23, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2013.
- ↑ Read on Google Maps on February 2, 2013
- ↑ "Fahrradbrücke der Freiheit" opened on ORF on September 22, accessed on September 22, 2012
- ↑ Nový most dostal názov Cyklomost slobody , Slovak , from September 21, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2013.
