Pont Boieldieu

View of the bridge from the right bank of the Seine

The Pont Boieldieu is a Seine bridge built in 1955 on the site of a previous bridge of the same name in the city center of Rouen . It is named after the Rouen composer François-Adrien Boieldieu .

Previous buildings

Photo of the old suspension bridge.

In place of the Pont Boiebeldieu, previous bridges had existed since the 12th century, the oldest being the Pont Mathilde. From 1836 to 1884 there was a suspension bridge on the site .

First Pont Boieldieu

Le Pont Boieldieu à Rouen, temps mouillé , Camille Pissarro , 1896

The first Pont Boieldieu or Grand-Pont was a three-arched iron road bridge opened in 1888. with a total length of 240 m. Camille Pissarro was impressed by the hustle and bustle around the bridge and in 1896 made a whole series of pictures of the bridge. The bridge was blown up on June 9, 1940 by units of the French armed forces in order to slow down the advance of the Wehrmacht over the Seine during the French campaign .

Second Pont Boieldieu

The second, current Pont Boieldieu was built a little west of the previous building after the Second World War. It is located at a distance of about 200–300 m between the Pont Pierre-Corneille and Pont Jeanne-d'Arc bridges .

literature

"Les nouveaux ponts de Rouen". In: Acier = Stahl = Steel , February 1956 BC. 21, pp. 60-61.

Web links

Commons : Pont Boieldieu - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 1116, Le Pont Boieldieu a Rouen, temps mouille. In: Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts: “Pissarro: Critical Catalog of Paintings.” Wildenstein Institute (Ed.), Milan 2005, ISBN 978-2908063141 , Vol. 3, pp. 704-705.
^ Pont Boieldieu. In: Structurae , as of July 22, 2014, accessed January 31, 2015.
^ "Rouen, Dieppe, Le Havre - The great port cities and industrialization". In: Gerhard Finckh (ed.): Camille Pissarro. The father of impressionism (exhibition catalog). From the Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89202-091-2 , p. 342ff.

49.437222222222 1.0911111111111Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '14 " N , 1 ° 5' 28" E

[1] 1116, Le Pont Boieldieu a Rouen, temps mouille. In: Joachim Pissarro, Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts: “Pissarro: Critical Catalog of Paintings.” Wildenstein Institute (Ed.), Milan 2005, ISBN 978-2908063141 , Vol. 3, pp. 704-705.

[2] Pont Boieldieu. In: Structurae , as of July 22, 2014, accessed January 31, 2015.

[3] "Rouen, Dieppe, Le Havre - The great port cities and industrialization". In: Gerhard Finckh (ed.): Camille Pissarro. The father of impressionism (exhibition catalog). From the Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89202-091-2 , p. 342ff.