Lafranconi Bridge

48.14210617.075264174Koordinaten: 48 ° 8 ' 31.6 " N, 17 ° 4' 31" E

DIAĽNICA D2

Danube

The Lafranconi Bridge (Slovak Most Lafranconi ) is 764 meters, the longest bridge in Bratislava. After an architectural competition in 1976 marked by aesthetic purity bridge was built in the years 1985 to 1991, in 1992 it was opened. It has the first Slovak Danube bridge a supporting structure made ​​of concrete. It is named after the Italian architect Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi (1850-1895), who mapped the course of the Danube in Bratislava and also dedicated to the flood protection. You should be originally named Most Mládeže (Bridge of Youth).

Their main purpose is the motorized road transport in the D2 motorway ( European Route 65), it is equipped with a walkway, a wheel track and inside various water and gas lines. The walkway is also used by the European long-distance path E8. Its capacity is 41 000 vehicles per day, which run to four lanes. The width of all traces is 30 meters.

The bridge is located immediately east of the Austro- Slovakian border. On the right bank in Petržalka it builds on the internationally important important motorway interchange with the motorway D1 ( European Route 75 ) ( direction Central Slovakia and Poland ), and in the further course of the D4 or Austrian Northeast motorway A6 ( towards Vienna ), while the D2 even further leads to Hungary.