Old Sava Bridge, Railway and road bridge in Belgrade, Serbia

The Old Sava Bridge is a steel arch structure stretching 430 meters across the river to link New Belgrade and Savski Venac. It carries both car traffic and tram lines, making it a key transport route through the city.

Built in 1942 during German occupation, this structure replaced the destroyed King Alexander Bridge as the sole crossing over the river in Belgrade. It became essential infrastructure after previous bridges were damaged.

Belgraders never adopted an official name: Germans called it "Prince Eugen", after 1945 it was the "German" or "Schwabian bridge", and once other Sava crossings appeared it became the Old Sava Bridge. Because trams ran over it for about 35 years, many still say "Tram Bridge". In 2017 a citizens' initiative proposed naming it after Miladin Zarić, the teacher who cut the burning fuse in October 1944; the city commission neither accepted nor rejected it.

The bridge was demolished in May 2025, so it can no longer be crossed; the green steel arch and its concrete piers are gone from the Sava. For the river crossing, use the newer bridges nearby. The site itself now lies within the Belgrade Waterfront area, where the replacement structure was planned.

The steel span was prefabricated for a crossing over the Tisza near Žabalj, then cut into pieces and moved to Belgrade after the King Aleksandar Bridge was destroyed on 6 April 1941. The Dortmund firm C.H. Jucho reassembled it on eight Sava pillars, finishing in six months.