Elisabeth Bridge, International bridge in Komárom, Hungary and Komárno, Slovakia.
Elisabeth Bridge is a road bridge over the Danube at river kilometre 1767.8, joining Komárom in Hungary with Komárno in Slovakia. Its steel structure has four openings spanned by sickle-shaped truss girders with 102 m spans, carried on piers set 104 m apart. The deck is 10.8 m wide, with a 5.8 m roadway and 2.5 m walkways on each side. The bridge does not reach the left bank: it begins on the Elisabeth Island.
The bridge was built in 1892 during the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a crossing between the twin cities. Following extensive damage in World War II, it was reconstructed in 1946 and has remained an important link between the two nations.
The bridge is named after Queen Elisabeth, the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, and was opened on 1 September 1892 under the king and Prime Minister Gyula Szapáry. For Komárno, a centre of the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia, it also stands for the link with Hungary.
The bridge is open to vehicle traffic and provides a direct crossing between Hungary and Slovakia. Travelers should note this is an international border crossing and bring appropriate documentation for passage.
The bridge is the oldest Danube crossing to survive partly in its original form: only the two outer spans are original, while the two middle spans were rebuilt after German troops blew them up in March 1945. The Red Army's engineers and Czechoslovak firms restored it in 1946 using the intact sections.
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