Maria Valeria Bridge

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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 43 "  N , 18 ° 43 ′ 46"  E

Maria Valeria Bridge
Maria Valeria Bridge
The Maria Valeria Bridge, built in 2001
Official name HungaryHungaryMária Valéria híd Most Márie Valérie
SlovakiaSlovakia
use Road bridge
Crossing of Danube
place HungaryHungary Esztergom / Štúrovo / Párkány
SlovakiaSlovakia
construction Steel framework
overall length 517.60 m
width 012.30 m
Number of openings five + 1
Longest span 119 m
Construction height 014 m
start of building 1893
completion 1895
opening September 28, 1895
October 11, 2001
planner János Feketeházy
location
Maria Valeria Bridge (Hungary)
Maria Valeria Bridge

The Maria Valeria Bridge ( Hungarian Mária Valéria híd ; Slovak Most Márie Valérie ) over the Danube connects the Hungarian city of Esztergom with the Slovak city of Štúrovo / Párkány . It is named after Princess Marie Valerie of Austria-Hungary.

location

The Maria-Valeria-Bridge is at the river kilometer 1718.80. The next bridge upstream is the Elisabeth Bridge in Komárom / Komárno at kilometer 1767.80. Downstream, the next bridge is the Megyeri híd motorway bridge in northern Budapest at 1659.74 kilometer and the Árpád bridge at 1651.40 kilometer as a road bridge .

prehistory

In Esztergom (as in Komárom) there was already an important ferry connection in Roman times .

Later a ship bridge was set up, but it had to be laboriously opened for passing ships and rafts and had to be completely dismantled in the event of floods and ice . A flying bridge ( Gierseilfähre ) operated between 1762 and 1842 was perceived as a relief. Because of the increasing traffic, a ship bridge was built again, which was destroyed in 1848, renewed in 1862 and then operated until the opening of the Maria Valeria Bridge.

description

The Maria Valeria Bridge was designed by the Hungarian civil engineer János Feketeházy , who shortly before had planned the Elisabeth Bridge in Komárom , and built between 1893 and 1895 by Cathry Szaléz, a Budapest building contractor of Swiss descent.

The 514 m long structure was the second longest bridge in Hungary when it opened after the Margaret Bridge ( Margit híd ) in Budapest.

It consisted of five crescent - shaped half - timbered arches and a short bridge over the street on the right bank, which had the following spans : 83.5 + 102.0 + 119.0 + 102.0 + 83.5 + 16.2 m. The bridge was 9.55 m wide with the two sidewalks running outside the girders. The large central arch was 14.0 m high.

Since it opened in 1895, the bridge has already been destroyed twice: the first time in 1920, and for the second time on December 26, 1944, when it, like other bridges, was blown up when German troops withdrew. Due to the poor bilateral relations between Hungary and Czechoslovakia and Slovakia, it then took almost 60 years before the reconstruction of the Maria Valeria Bridge could begin.

reconstruction

After long negotiations, a bilateral reconstruction agreement was concluded on September 16, 1999. The EU provided a loan for half of the construction costs (€ 10 million) under the PHARE program.

The new bridge was planned by the engineering offices Pont-TERV and Dopravoprojekt. The two outer, still existing arches were reinforced and reused. New, welded and screwed steel arches were built for the three middle fields, which looked like the old bridge. The roadway has been widened so that the bridge is now 12.3 m wide. The pavement beam is now an orthotropic plate . Shipping was required to raise the bridge significantly, so the pillars that were still in place were reinforced and enlarged. The clearance height is now 9.91 m above HWS 2010 (highest shipping water level). On October 11, 2001, the bridge was opened to the public again.

The restoration of the bridge caused a great increase in the economy and industry in the Ister Gran region. Since 2004 the bridge has hosted an artist-in-residence project, under which artists can live and work for several months as “bridge guards” in Štúrovo.

  • The Danube Bridge destroyed in World War II in 1969

  • Bridgehead with customs house

  • Maria Valeria Bridge from the Esztergom Basilica

  • The border between Hungary and Slovakia in the middle of the bridge.

  • Maria Valeria Bridge

See also

List of bridges across the Danube

Web links

Commons : Maria-Valeria-Brücke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of Danube bridges on viadonau (PDF; 200 kB)
  2. ^ Karol Frühauf: Guarding the Bridge. In: TransArtists. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .