Podul Traian (Timișoara)
The Podul Traian Bridge is located in the western Romanian city of Timișoara and crosses the Bega . It connects the 1st district of Cetate with the 4th district of Iosefin . In the immediate vicinity is the Water Regulation Palace and the Cathedral of the Three Holy Hierarchs .
Wooden bridge
The first bridge in place of today's Podul Traian was a wooden bridge , this connected the Peterwardeiner Tor with the Josefstadt. In the second half of the 19th century this old bridge was already rotten and therefore urgently had to be replaced, especially since it had also been used by the horse-drawn tram that was extended into Josefstadt since October 25, 1869 .
Steel bridge
As a replacement for the dilapidated wooden bridge, a steel truss bridge was built between 1870 and 1871 . This was the second steel bridge in the city, alongside the Bem-híd, which opened in the same year. A special feature of the steel bridge was the one-sided pedestrian walkway on the west side, which means that the entire construction was asymmetrical.
With the introduction of the electric tram in 1899 , the steel bridge from 1871 had to be reinforced with two additional supporting pillars . The tram company called Temesvári Villamos Városi Vasút Részvénytársaság at that time contributed a quarter of the costs to this measure .
Concrete bridge
The construction of today's concrete bridge in the direction of Josefstadt began in March 1913. However, construction progressed slowly during the First World War . The endurance test only took place between December 14 and 18, 1915; pedestrians could pass it from January 1, 1916, and finally it was opened to road traffic in 1917. And it was not until November 1918 that the tram could be relocated from the temporary bridge that had been in use since November 1912 to the final route . The old 120-ton steel structure, on the other hand, was rebuilt in 1915 about 500 meters downstream as a pedestrian bridge , which is today's Podul de Fier .
The bridge was modernized after World War II and is now the widest of the city's older bridges.
Technical data: The bridge has an opening of 32.80 meters and a length of 40 meters, the carriageway is seven meters wide, the two footpaths each two meters.
Name of the bridge
On the city map from 1849, the bridge treated here is recorded as the Great Bridge . After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 it was initially called Losonczy híd . It was named after István Losonczy - the last defender of the local fortress before it was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1552 . Later it was after the Hungarian statesman and army leader John Hunyadi in Hunyadi híd renamed. Similarly, the road connecting the inner city (Cetate) and the Josefstadt (Iosefin) was then called Hunyadi út . After Timișoara fell to Romania in 1919, the bridge finally got its current name, derived from the Roman emperor Trajan .
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.
Web links
- Legenda Eiffel strămutată la podul metalic , Primăria Timișoara, Aprilie 2009
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 45 ° 44 ′ 59 " N , 21 ° 13 ′ 15.3" E
