Petőfi Bridge

Petőfi Bridge, seen from the Csepel HÉV terminus

Petőfi híd (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈpɛtøːfi ˈhiːd]) or Petőfi Bridge (named after Sándor Petőfi, old name is Horthy Miklós Bridge, named after governor Miklós Horthy) is a bridge in Budapest, connecting Pest and Buda across the Danube. It is the second southernmost public bridge in Budapest.

Its two ends are:

• Boráros tér (southern end of Grand Boulevard and terminus of the Csepel HÉV)
• Goldmann György tér (next to the campuses of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Budapest already made a proposal in the early 1900s to build the bridge, but the competent state bodies believed that a bridge in Óbuda was much more important. After the start of World War I., the idea was postponed, however, the bridge was still important for the townspeople.^[1]

The bridge was built between 1933 and 1937,^[2] according to the plans of Hubert Pál Álgyay. It is 514 m in length (along with the sections leading up) and 25.6 m in width. It was destroyed by the retreating German troops during the Second World War. Its rebuilt version was inaugurated in November 1952, when it also took on its new name, Petőfi Bridge.^[3]

See also

• Bridges of Budapest
• List of crossings of the Danube River

References

1. "Lovely Budapest". Archived from the original on 2019-08-29. Retrieved 2016-10-18.
2. "Petőfi bridge - Budapest Bridges".
3. "The Fascinating History of Petőfi Bridge". Hungarianconservative.com.

External links

• DBridges - Petőfi híd
• Photos of Budapest bridges
• Petöfi hid at Structurae
• Bridges of Budapest - Petofi Bridge^[usurped]

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