Árpád Bridge

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Danube

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The Árpád (Hungarian Árpád híd ) is one of the nine bridges across the Danube in Hungary's capital Budapest.

With 928 meters of the building connects the districts of Buda and Pest on the road and tram traffic. She touches the northern reaches of the Margaret Island and the southern tip of Óbuda. Between its consecration in 1950 and 1956, she was named Stalin bridge after the Soviet leader Stalin. After uncovering the atrocities of the Soviet dictator, it was renamed Árpád Bridge. Thus, the city honored the Great Prince Árpád, considered the leading figure after the Hungarian conquest and founder of the Árpád dynasty.

History

Already in 1903, the Budapest City Council had adopted a memorandum on construction of a bridge at this point. But it was only in 1929 an architectural competition was held, from which emerged as the winning design a girder bridge. Ten years later, could begin construction in 1943, there was, however, by the impact of the Second World War to a halt the work. Finally, the Danube crossing in 1950 was finally completed. Lack of money led but to the fact that it was not built into the estimated width, so that in the years 1981-1984 had to be a spread of 13 to 26 meters.