Kilenclyukú híd

Kilenclyukú híd
	The Bridge from the Southeast (2005)
use	Road bridge
Convicted	33-as főút
Crossing of	Hortobágy river
place	Hortobágy
construction	Stone arch bridge
overall length	167.3 m
Number of openings	9
start of building	1827
completion	1833
planner	Ferenc Povolny
	location
Above sea level	74 m

47.5818 21.1476 74Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 54 ″ N , 21 ° 8 ′ 51 ″ E

The Kilenclyukú híd (German roughly: nine-arched bridge , literally "nine-hole bridge", also Hortobágy bridge ) is a stone arch bridge near the Hungarian town of Hortobágy in the Hortobágyi National Park . It is about 40 kilometers west of Debrecen and leads the main road No. 33 from Debrecen to Füzesabony over the Hortobágy river. With a total length of 167.3 m, the nine-arch bridge is the longest stone bridge in Hungary.

history

As early as the 14th century, there was a wooden bridge over the Hortobágy River at the site of today's nine-arch bridge. It was along the trade route from Pest-Buda to Transylvania , where, among other things, salt and cattle were traded. The trade route gained importance with the emergence of the city of Debrecen from the 16th century. In 1699 the inn ( csárda ) , which still exists today, opened at the eastern end of the wooden bridge, which was renovated three years later. The host of the csárda was commissioned by the city of Debrecen to collect the road toll. The current settlement of Hortobágy came into being later.

In 1827 the Debrecen City Council decided to build the new Hortobágy crossing as a stone bridge. The construction was carried out by János Litsmann according to plans by the architect Ferenc Polovny in the classical style and completed in 1833. The stones for the construction were shipped across the Tisza from Tokaj and Tiszacsege and then brought to the construction site in wagons.

As part of the Hortobágyi National Park, the nine-arched bridge was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1999 .

gallery

Aerial view
Nine-arch bridge from the southwest, in the background the Hortobágyi csárda
Photo from 1935
Vihar a Hortobágyon , painting by Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry (oil on canvas, 117 × 59 cm, 1904)

Web links

Commons : Hortobágy bridge - collection of images, videos and audio files

The nine-arch bridge . Description on the Hortobágyi National Park website

Individual evidence

^ WHC Nomination Documentation: Hortobágy National Park. UNESCO 1999, accessed on April 15, 2020 (PDF; 13 MB)
↑ Dirk Hilbers: The Nature Guide to the Hortobágy and Tisza River Floodplain, Hungary . Crossbill Guides Foundation, Arnheim 2008, ISBN 978-90-5011-276-5 , pp. 58-59 .
^ József Sisa: Buildings with Civic or Utilitarian Functions . In: József Sisa (ed.): Motherland and Progress. Hungarian Architecture and Design 1800–1900 . Birkhäuser, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-0356-1009-3 , p. 141 .

[1] WHC Nomination Documentation: Hortobágy National Park. UNESCO 1999, accessed on April 15, 2020 (PDF; 13 MB)

[2] Dirk Hilbers: The Nature Guide to the Hortobágy and Tisza River Floodplain, Hungary . Crossbill Guides Foundation, Arnheim 2008, ISBN 978-90-5011-276-5 , pp. 58-59 .

[sisa-3] József Sisa: Buildings with Civic or Utilitarian Functions . In: József Sisa (ed.): Motherland and Progress. Hungarian Architecture and Design 1800–1900 . Birkhäuser, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-0356-1009-3 , p. 141 .