Galata Bridge
41.0228.973055555556Koordinaten: 41 ° 1 ' 12 " N, 28 ° 58' 23" E
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Golden Horn
The Galata Bridge (in Turkish Galata Köprüsü ) spans the Golden Horn between İstanbul districts Eminonu Fatih and the port area of Karaköy ( Galata ) in the district of Beyoğlu district.
Since the 19th century, with the growth of the suburbs north of the Golden Horn, the ferry with rowing boats no longer met the requirements, was built at the initiative of Bezmiâlem Valide Sultan, mother of Sultan Abdülmecids 1845 at this point the first bridge. In 1863, the visit of Emperor Napoleon III was. taken as an opportunity to renew the timber. Twelve years later, in 1875, led a British company from a first iron bridge. This in turn was in 1912 replaced by a new pontoon bridge with two floors, which was built by the company MAN.
From 1845 to 1930 the use of the bridge not only for cars but also for pedestrians was a toll road.
After a fire in 1992, this bridge was finally broken at first, and built from parts of it between Balat and Hasköy a bridge that had to be removed but again a little later due to unfavorable effects on the exchange of water in the Golden Horn.
Today's 42 -meter-wide, also two-storey, modern construction was completed in 1992. It was built to a design by the German civil engineer Fritz Leonhardt by a consortium including the Thyssen on 114 pillars, and is the first fixed bridge anchored in the ground at this point. After lying beneath the road commercial space had been empty for years unused, since 2002, this part of the bridge in operation: it there are many of restaurants and cafes, which are by no means set only to tourists. 2003, the extension of the existing tram across the Galata Bridge to the New Town was continued, so that the use of modern bridge now largely again corresponds to that of their previous building. The Galata Bridge is still one of the busiest and most stressed from traffic point of Istanbul, despite its eight lanes a kind of bottleneck, which was relieved by the Atatürkbrücke little.