Podul Mitropolit Andrei Șaguna
The Podul Mitropolit Andrei Șaguna bridge , named after the Orthodox metropolitan Andrei Șaguna , is located in the western Romanian city of Timișoara . It crosses the Bega and connects the I. District Cetate with the III. District Elisabetin . The bridge is located to the west of the Timișoara hydropower plant and is 3.78 kilometers away. Motorized individual traffic and trolleybus traffic are carried over them.
Surname
At the time of the Austrian Empire , the bridge was called the Bischofsbrücke . This name came from the former Bischofsstrasse - today Bulevardul Mihai Viteazul - which led over the fortress foreland , which was still undeveloped at the time, to the Meierhöfe (today Elisabetin ). Every year a procession took place over the bridge, which the bishop led to the former Rosalienkapelle after the outbreak of the plague of 1738/39 in accordance with the city's vow to put an end to the epidemic. In the course of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the German name Bischofsbrücke was finally translated into Püspök hid . A Hungarian alternative name was Erzsébet hid városi ( German Elisabeth townspeople bridge ), according to the former Hungarian name of the district Elisabetin. As a result of the division of the Banat , the bridge was given its current Romanian name for the first time in 1919 , but was temporarily called Podul Tinereții ( German Bridge of Youth ) during the socialist era . An alternative Romanian name was Podul Episcopal , derived from the term episcopate for the office of bishop or the term of office of a bishop.
history
Work on today's bridge construction began in 1913 on the site of an old wooden bridge that had existed since 1718 and was reinforced in 1898. It was supposed to be designed particularly magnificently, so the Prague Charles Bridge served here on a smaller scale as a model for the new bridge, which for the traffic conditions at the time was an impressive ten meters wide.
The four pillars towering over the bridgeheads were to be provided with the statues of four Csanád bishops , above all Saint Gérard , founder of the diocese. However, the plan could not be carried out because of the start of the First World War ; the bridge was completed, but the pedestals remained empty.
See also
literature
- Árpád Jancsó: Istoricul podurilor din Timișoara. Editura Mirton, Timișoara 2001, ISBN 973-585-545-3 .
Web links
- gtztm.ro (PDF; 3.5 MB), Primăria Municipiului Timișoara: Proiect No. 1/2009, Plan urbanistic zonal malurile Canalului Bega , 2009, in Romanian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kulturraum-banat (PDF; 430 kB), Timisoara and its old street names, Hans Gehl
Coordinates: 45 ° 44 ′ 55.3 ″ N , 21 ° 13 ′ 32.3 ″ E
