Nicholas Chain Bridge
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 32 ″ N , 30 ° 33 ′ 52 ″ E
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| Crossing of | Dnepr | |
| place | Kiev | |
| construction | Chain bridge | |
| overall length | 781 m | |
| width | 16 m | |
| Longest span | 4 × 134 m | |
| start of building | 1848 | |
| completion | 1853 | |
| Status | Destroyed in 1920 | |
| planner | Charles Vignoles | |
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The Nicholas Chain Bridge ( Ukrainian Миколаївський ланцюговий міст , Russian Николаевский цепной мост ) was a road bridge in Kiev over the Dnieper .
It was the first permanent bridge to connect the city on the hills of the right bank of the river, which at that time belonged to the Russian Empire, with the as yet hardly populated flat land on the left bank and beyond with the eastern parts of the country and the road to Moscow .
The Chain Bridge was planned by the British engineer Charles Blacker Vignoles with the permission of Tsar Nicholas I and built between 1848 and 1853 under his direction. Its opening ceremony took place together with the unveiling of the monument to Vladimir the saint .
The total of 780.9 m (2562 ft ) long bridge had five brick pylons in the form of large portals, between which the four main fields with spans of 134.1 m (440 ft) each hung on chains. The two side panels were each 68.6 m (225 ft) long. The 16 m wide bridge deck consisted of iron girders on which wooden planks were attached. In front of the left bank there was a 15.2 m (50 ft) long swing bridge so that the ships could pass through during high tide if there was not enough space under the bridge. The forged chains and other iron parts were manufactured in Birmingham by Fox, Henderson & Co. , shipped to Odessa and from there transported by ox carts over a distance of around 500 km to Kiev.
A model of the bridge was exhibited at the World's Fair in London in 1851 .
In 1898 the bridge was reinforced, raised 3.4 m and the swing bridge replaced by a fixed bridge.
In 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War, a bridge field was blown up by the withdrawing Polish troops, whereupon the entire bridge collapsed along its entire length.
The Nikolaus Chain Bridge was the longest chain bridge in history.
In 1925, a bridle strap named after Yevgenia Bosch was built on the remaining pillars by EO Paton . It was blown up in 1941 by Russian troops on their retreat from the Wehrmacht .
Since November 5 1965, the 700 m long leads Metro bridge at the same location on the two Dneprinseln located Hidropark .
Web links
- Nicholas Chain Bridge on GuideKiev
- Kiev Suspension Bridge 1846 - 1853. Detailed description of the construction of the bridge (English, 22 pages)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiev Suspension Bridge 1846-1853.
- ↑ a b Mykhailo Korniev: Bridge Engineering in Ukraine . In: Wai-Fah Chen, Lian Duan (Eds.): Handbook of International Bridge Engineering . CRC Press, Boca Raton 2014, ISBN 978-1-4398-1029-3 , pp. 869 ( limited preview in Google Book search).