Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ N , 17 ° 6 ′ 16 ″ E
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| Official name | Most SNP | |
| use | Road bridge | |
| Convicted | Street Panónska (Petržalka) road Staromestská (Stare Mesto) |
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| Crossing of | Danube | |
| place | Bratislava | |
| construction | Cable-stayed bridge | |
| overall length | 430.8 m | |
| width | 21 m | |
| Longest span | 303 m | |
| Construction height | 4.6 m | |
| building-costs | 306 million CZK | |
| start of building | 1967 | |
| completion | 1972 | |
| opening | August 26, 1972 | |
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The bridge of the Slovak National Uprising ( Slovak officially Most SNP , short for Most Slovenského národného povstania , from 1993 to 29 August 2012 officially Nový most - New Bridge ) in Bratislava was built between 1967 and 1972 after a design by Arpád Tesár (civil engineer), Jan Lacko (architect) and Ivan Slameň (architect) built a road bridge over the Danube , which was named after the Slovak National Uprising in 1944. It is the most famous of the five Danube bridges in the city and connects the Petržalka district with the old town ( Staré Mesto ) of Bratislava.
construction
It is designed as an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 303 m. Its steel structure hangs on ropes that are anchored in two pillars on the Petržalka side . The total length of the Danube bridge is 430.8 meters, the width is 21 meters and its weight is 7,537 tons. In 2001 the bridge was declared the "building of the century".
There are two lanes in each direction of travel on the bridge. There are footpaths on both sides below the carriageway level. At the southern end, the bridge connects to Panónska Street with direction dividers from Petržalka . Next to the bridge is the Janko Kráľ Park . On the north side there is a junction with the Nábrežie arm road running along the Danube . gen. L. Svobodu , while the carriageway itself as the Staromestská leads further into the old town . Directly under the junction, which also forms the access ramp to the bridge, there is a bus station with tram connections and buses to Vienna.
During the construction, part of the old town (e.g. the Jewish quarter and the neological synagogue ) was demolished to make room for the feeder and the bridge itself.
Tower restaurant
A special attraction is the tower restaurant in the form of a UFO - or rather a ship - located at a height of 80 meters on the 84.6 meter high pylon of the bridge. The restaurant, which opened in 1974, was formerly called Bystrica , but closed in 2003 and reopened on June 15, 2005 under the name Ufo . An elevator in the left pillar (seen from the north) leads to the restaurant, which offers a good view of the city. Above the restaurant there is another lookout point at a height of 95 meters. The right pillar has an emergency staircase with 430 steps. On June 16, 2013, the UFO Vertical Sprint was the first flight of stairs, which is one of the Masters races in the Staircase World Cup.
history
There were three planning variants for the bridge, which was supposed to replace the former Franz Josefs Bridge (now the Old Bridge ) , which was rebuilt in 1945 by the Red Army . A western variant, which was vehemently rejected by the military and the Ministry of the Interior because of its proximity to the border, an eastern variant at the Winterhafen, which was ultimately considered too little central, and the route that was ultimately chosen near the old town, which was specified in the development plan in 1963 with the force of law. Despite this stipulation (resistance to the plan was considered a criminal offense), opposition arose in the relatively liberal climate of opinion of the 1960s, which was borne primarily by artists and intellectuals. It was not so much about the shape and appearance of the bridge itself as it was about the city motorway that was necessarily connected with it. This necessarily resulted in the destruction of the old town fish square ( Rybné námestie ) and the Podhradie district (Eng. Castle Grounds ) and a street layout a few meters from St. Martin's Cathedral , which was therefore considered problematic for reasons of monument protection . The newspaper "Směna" therefore organized a discussion "Bridge against Bratislava?" and in the city's archives there are protest letters from committed citizens with hundreds of signatures. In the wake of the normalization of the ČSSR after the suppression of the Prague Spring in August 1968, this discussion came to a standstill; after 1989 the problems of the bridge motorway were discussed again openly, but no satisfactory and affordable solution has yet been found.
Web links
- http://www.ufo.sk/en/ - Official website of the UFO restaurant (English)
- Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising. In: Structurae
- http://www.freeweb.hu/dbridges/hidakp/novy.html - New Bridge (Hungarian)
- http://www.ufoverticalsprint.sk/ - official website of the flight of stairs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ordinance of the Mayor of Bratislava No. 4/2012 ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Slovak)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Bratislava bude mať opäť Most SNP, SME, accessed on August 28, 2012
- ↑ World Federation of Great Towers ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ [2] and from Google Books, according to Wiener Zeitung October 14, 1994
- ↑ Nový most bridge in Bratislava ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Robert Schediwy : City images. Reflections on the change in architecture and urbanism. 2nd Edition. LIT, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7755-8 , p. 53 ff.
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