Branko's Bridge

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Brankov most ( Serbian Cyrillic Бранков мост, German: Branko's bridge ) is after the Gazela the second longest bridge in Belgrade, connects the core of the Serbian capital over the Save the district of Novi Beograd.

Construction

Replaced the bridge, which opened on 16 December 1934, and in 1941 Alexander destroyed bridge, built by the Gutehoffnungshütte suspension bridge. The pylons had a height of 33 meters above the 12 meter wide road, which had among other things, two streetcar tracks.

During the construction of the new bridge substructures of the decorated by Ivan Mestrovic in Serbian -Byzantine style previous bridge were used. She is putting on two separate superstructures a motorway-like road with three lanes in each direction. The second superstructure was completed in 1979.

The bridge is 450 m long and built of solid-walled steel beams. Your main span is 261 m, the side spans of 75 m each. The major carriers have a maximum web plate height of 9.6 m above the river piers. The building is traveled daily from approximately 90,000 vehicles and traffic jams are common.

The construction of the bridge was built in 1956 by the German company MAN. At the time of commissioning, she was the girder bridge with the longest span in the world. The Belgrade society Mostprojekt took on the task to double the capacity of the bridge in the 1970s. Project was Danilo Dragojević.

Name

The name of the bridge is unofficial and is at the end of a bizarre chain of events. The official name during the communist rule was bridge of brotherhood and unity (Most bratstva i jedinstva ), but the name did not sit in the population: it was mostly " Branko bridge in the street " (after Branko Radičević, a Serbian romantic poet ), or Savski most / Savabrücke called. The term Brankov most prevails finally, after another writer, Branko Ćopić, with a jump from the bridge on March 26, 1984 committed suicide.