Thaya Bridge Hardegg - Čížov
The Thaya Bridge Hardegg - Čížov is a pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Thaya between Hardegg ( Austria ) and Čížov ( Czech Republic ).
history
Before the bridge was built, the Thaya had to be crossed at a ford above the city . In the years 1873/1874 a new road to Hardegg (today state road L 38 from Niederfladnitz to Hardegg) was built. In the course of this work, the bridge was also built. The Viennese company Ignaz Gridl was commissioned to erect the iron structure .
The customs houses on both banks were only built after the First World War and the definitive demarcation between the two states. Until the end of the Second World War, this bridge was used almost continuously and without significant restrictions. From 1945 the border crossing at the Iron Curtain was closed. The Prague Spring brought efforts to reopen, but this did not materialize.
In the meantime, the pavement consisting of posts was removed first on the Czech and then on the Austrian side and only the most necessary maintenance measures were carried out.
After the change of power ( Velvet Revolution ) in the Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the following wave of new openings of old border crossings, the Thaya bridge from Hardegg was put back into service.
On the Austrian side, after a static check, as a result of which the steel construction was approved for a maximum load of six tons, the Krems an der Donau bridge maintenance department took over the work, which lasted from January 2, 1990 to March 29, 1990.
The costs for the necessary repair work amounted to around ATS 200,000 (approx. EUR 14,500) for the half belonging to the Republic of Austria.
On Maundy Thursday of 1990, April 12, 1990, the new border crossing from Hardegg to the district of Čížov (German: Zaisa) in the municipality of Horní Břečkov (Oberfröschau) was reopened. However, only during the warm season and at the urging of the administration of the later Czech National Park Podyjí only for pedestrians and cyclists, as the Hardegg - Čížov road is in the area of the national park.
The Czech nature reserve was declared a national park in 1991 and the Austrian one in 2000, so that the bridge is now an important tourist link between the two national parks.
During the “Retzer Land - Fiery Land” series of events in the summer of 2001, the Thaya Bridge, like so many other things in the municipalities of the “Retzer Land” region, was bathed in bright red - the steel girders were wrapped in red plastic film.
Technical specifications
- Erected by: Ignaz Gridl, K. u. K. Hof-Eisenconstructions-Werkstätte, Vienna - Margareten , Bacherplatz 3
- System: truss bridge with 4 fields
- Spans 4 × 18.25 meters
- Height of the truss: 2.15 meters
- Distance between the main beams: 4.40 meters
- Lane width: 4.20 meters
Neighboring border crossings
See: Austrian border crossings to neighboring countries
literature
- DEHIO Lower Austria - north of the Danube ISBN 3-7031-0652-2 (1990)
- Manfred Wehdorn: architectural monuments of technology and industry in Austria. Vienna-Lower Austria-Burgenland , 1984, ISBN 3-205-07202-2
- Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 11.1 ″ N , 15 ° 51 ′ 45.9 ″ E