Margit híd, Arch bridge in Budapest, Hungary

Margaret Bridge is a three-way steel arch bridge over the Danube in Budapest, 607.6 metres long, joining Szent István körút on the Pest bank with Margit körút in Buda and touching Margaret Island. Its six spans measure 73.5, 82.67, 87.88, 87.88, 82.67 and 73.5 metres. At the island the bridge axis bends, so the piers stand parallel to the current in both branches. The yellow-green arches carry a lattice of diagonal and vertical braces beneath the deck, and the pale grey stone piers bear sculpted figure groups.

Budapest's second permanent bridge was ordered by the 1870 Act X and built from 1872 to 1876 by the Société de Construction de Batignolles to a design by Ernest Goüin, opened on 30 April 1876. On 4 November 1944 the three Pest-side spans were blown up, and the Buda spans followed on 18 January 1945. Rebuilt in steel with six arches instead of eight, it reopened half-width in autumn 1947 and fully in summer 1948.

The bridge is named after Margaret, daughter of King Béla IV, who lived on the island it reaches. Soon after its 1876 opening it became a known spot for suicides, prompting poet János Arany to write the ballad "Híd-avatás" (Bridge Inauguration), illustrated by Mihály Zichy and circulated as a leaflet. The island link opened on 19 August 1900.

The bridge runs between Jászai Mari tér on the Pest side and Germanus Gyula park in Buda, where the Szentendre HÉV stops and the Lukács and Király Baths stand nearby. The axis bends at Margaret Island, and a branch bridge opened on 19 August 1900 leads onto the island from the central pier. The 2009–2011 works widened the middle lanes, added about 2 m to the sidewalk and completed a bike path.

The bridge's two arms meet at the island at an angle of 165 degrees, because the short link to Margaret Island was inserted into the original design in haste but built only two decades later for lack of funds. Until the branch bridge opened on 19 August 1900, the island could be reached only by boat.