Old Bridge
Starý Most
Historical Hungarian county:
Pozsony
GPS coordinates:
48.138548, 17.117243
History
The construction of the bridge in 1891 was ordered by the Hungarian minister Baross Gábor. The bridge was named after Emperor Franz Joseph. The railway towards Szombathely (Hungary) also crossed the Danube on this bridge. After the Czechoslovak invasion in 1919 the bridge was renamed to Stefánik (Stefánik was a Slovak separatist born in northern Hungary, who betrayed his homeland and joined the French Foreign Legion during WW l.). The retreating Germans exploded the bridge in 1945. The Soviet army built a temporary steel bridge on the piers of the old bridge with German prisoners of war. The temporary bridge was named after the Red Army, and although it was built for only a couple of years, it still stands.
The new Danube Bridge was opened for the traffic in 1974. It was built by the Czechoslovak rulers of Pozsony at the expense of demolishing entire historic town quarters of Pozsony.
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