Podul Dacilor (Timișoara)

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The bridge shortly after it opened

Podul Dacilor is the name of a bridge in the western Romanian city ​​of Timișoara . It crosses the Bega at Piața Badea Cârțan and is one of the three bridges in Fabric , the 2nd district of the city. The building has been named after the Dacians since 1924 . Until 1919 it was known as Széna-téri híd , then for five years as Podul din Piața de Fân , German for  both Heuplatzbrücke . In both cases the name was derived from the earlier name of Piața Badea Cârțan.

prehistory

The Bega used to have several arms in the factory town, on which a large number of water mills were in operation. To make better use of hydropower, the city council decided in 1902 to build the Timișoara hydropower plant and to close the water mills at the same time. The systematisation plan from 1901 to 1903 by the engineer László Székely provided for the straightening of the Bega over a length of 2.4 kilometers. Three new bridges were built on this route: at today's Piața Sarmisegetuza, at today's Piața Badea Cârțan and at the later Baia Publică Neptun .

The old bridge

The construction of the bridges was put out to tender . 14 applications were received from companies in Budapest , Timișoara and Arad . The Budapest company Magyar beton és vasbeton építési vállalat was awarded the contract for the bridge treated here . In the spring of 1908 the contracts were signed. The construction of the bridge was the responsibility of the Budapest office of Aladár Kovács – Sebestény .

Aladár Kovács – Sebestény (* 1858 in Buda, † 1921 Budapest) was a respected hydrotechnician . After completing his studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , he settled in Timișoara, where he became head of the water regulation commission. He developed the project to regularize the Bega and Temesch as well as the project to build the dams. Together with Ludwig von Ybl , he worked out the city's first systematization plan.

The architect of the bridge was the Budapest Rezső Hikisch . In preparation for the construction work, he made several study trips to Budapest, Dresden and Munich .

On the part of the city, the engineers Emil Szilárd and Stan Vidrighin were responsible for the project. The bridge was completed in 1909.

The new bridge

Time did not leave the bridge without a trace, signs of aging and wear became visible. 1970–1971 the Institutul de Proiectare Timiș (IPROTIM) was commissioned to assess the bridge. The damage found was serious. They also led to the abandonment of freight transport on the Timișoara tram .

In 1988, eight years after the neighboring Podul Mihai-Viteazul bridge , Podul Dacilor was also demolished and replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge. Tram traffic on the Piața Traian –Bulevardul Take Ionescu line was temporarily suspended, and private motorized traffic was diverted over the Mihai – Viteazul Bridge.

The new bridge has a central opening of 31.36 meters, the two side openings are each 8.26 meters wide. The roadway is 7.80 meters wide , the sidewalks are each three meters wide.

As with the Mihai-Viteazul Bridge, the construction of the new bridge was carried out by the Institutul de Proiectare Timiș (IPROTIM) under the direction of engineer Radu Marinov . Marinov was born in Miercurea Ciuc in 1936 . He graduated from the CD Loga Lyceum in Timişoara in 1954 and then studied civil engineering at the Timișoara Polytechnic Institute until 1959 .

The construction work was carried out by the Romanian state railway Căile Ferate Române .

See also

literature

  • Árpád Jancsó: Istoricul podurilor din Timișoara. Editura Mirton, Timișoara 2001, ISBN 973-585-545-3 .
  • Else von Schuster: A tour of Timisoara. = O plimbare prin Timişoara. 3. Edition. ADZ, Bucureşti 2001.
  • Timisoara - Timisoara. A Southeast European city in a changing era. Hometown community Timisoara, Heidenheim 1994.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 37 "  N , 21 ° 14 ′ 55.5"  E