Crosses Vistula River No. of spans 6 Opened 21 July 1949 Width 21 m Body of water Vistula | Locale Warsaw Address 00-001 Wisła, Poland Total length 527 m Location Warsaw Carries Road transport, Tram | |
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Replaces Kierbedzia Bridge (Most Kierbedzia) Similar Świętokrzyski Bridge, Poniatowski Bridge, Gdański Bridge, Kierbedź Bridge, Łazienkowski Bridge | ||
Warsaw trams and buses on the l sko d browski bridge
Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge is a bridge over the Vistula River in Warsaw. It was built from 1947 to 1949 on the pillars which remained from the Kierbedzia Bridge which had been destroyed in World War II. Due to the bridge's completely different structure, it is recognized as a new bridge, not a rebuilt one.
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The name of the bridge commemorates the contribution of the Silesian province (commonly called the Śląsko-Dąbrowskim) in the reconstruction of the capital after the devastation of World War II.
The bridge is an integral portion of the Route WZ main thoroughfare that, from 22 July, 1949, joined Praga in the east (one of Warsaw's least destroyed districts during World War II) with the city centre, going through Muranów and out to Wola in the west.
Unlike most of the Warsaw tram tracks, trams on this bridge originally shared the bridge space with cars. In 2007, due to increased tram traffic along Route WZ during the modernization of tram routes on another major thoroughfare, Aleje Jerozolimskie, the tramway was separated from the roadway. This separation has continued even after traffic returned to normal, significantly shortening travel times for trams crossing the bridge.
The bridge has been renovated regularly including from 1992 to 1993 and in 2009.
There are plaques on the bridge commemorating events that took place on the older Kierbedzia Bridge: