Key facts
- Coordinates
- 47°29′27″N 19°02′57″E / 47.4908°N 19.0492°E / 47.4908; 19.0492
- Carries
- Six-lane road bridge
- Crosses
- Danube
- Locale
- Budapest , Hungary
- Preceded by
- Elisabeth Bridge (1903)
- Design
- Suspension bridge , portal frame , gravity-anchored
- Total length
- 378.6 m
- Width
- 27.1 m
- Longest span
- 290.0 m
- Designer
- Pál Sávoly
- Inaugurated
- 21 November 1964
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- road bridge
- Named after
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Budapest
- Material used
- steel
- Location
- Budapest
- Image
- View from Citadella on Budapest 2005 154.jpg
- Length
- 378.6
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- Commons gallery
- Erzsébet híd
- Commons category
- Elisabeth Bridge, Budapest
- crosses
- Danube
- inception
- 1964-00-00
- next crossing downstream
- Liberty Bridge
- next crossing upstream
- Széchenyi Chain Bridge
- distance from river mouth
- 1646
- number of spans
- 3
- native label
- Erzsébet híd
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Encyclopedic overview
Film footage about the original bridge in 1906 The original eclectic flamboyant style bridge The bridge in 2017 The bridge from above The bridge from the Pest side by the March 15 Square
Elisabeth Bridge (Hungarian: Erzsébet híd, Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɛrʒeːbɛt ˈhiːd]) is the third newest bridge of Budapest, Hungary, connecting Buda and Pest across the River Danube. The bridge is situated at the narrowest part of the Danube in the Budapest area, spanning only 290 m. It is named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, a popular queen and empress of Austria-Hungary, who was assassinated in 1898. Today, her large bronze statue sits by the bridge's Buda side connection in the middle of a small garden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elisabeth Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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