Belgrade has received another bridge, overdue past 10 years.

The city government has decided that the

bridge is a gift to all of Belgrade which is why the New Year's ve could be !ghting over it, so that in the !rst
minutes of "01", moving from one to the other ban# of the $ava. %nyone who thin#s that the opening of the
bridge at %da made a circus needs to #now that that was always and everywhere. &ost of 'ing %le(ander
opened the royal cavalry and the entire Yugoslav government, and on the bridge of the )ed )ibbon %rmy is
prese#ao the mu# Tito. *f you are wondering about which bridges tal#, read a brief and interesting history of
Belgrade bridge.
The story of the Belgrade bridges e+ually spectacular as that of the bridge over the ,rina )iver from %ndri-'s
novel. Bridges have shared the fate of their city, and with each new army demolished and erected on the
same site, ma#ing it di.cult to catch them chronological thread.

/or each of them is connected to at least one interesting story, an urban legend or the incredible construction
underta#ing, which need to be reminded of 0ust when the new bridge becomes part of the history of
Belgrade. 1e wish you to the new bridge near %da spend less of their time to serve us long and be an
inspiration for some of the new generation. %nd the fewer people in the future he wants to ta#e his own life
with him or anyone else.

Branko's Bridge - ruse about names 2 3alf of Belgrade daily yarn Bran#o Bridge from the old part of the city to
the new. %nd everyone #nows him as 4Bran#o4. But what the Bran#a5 &ost would say that the bridge was
named after Bran#o 6opic who performed samoubstvo 0umping with him in 1789. But the bridge is also
referred to as prior to this unfortunate event, and it has since continued Bran#o $treet, named after the
famous poet Bran#o )%,*:;*<%. But here ruse is 0ust beginning.
The o.cial name of Bran#o's bridge $ava bridge, and before this term was
the bridge of brotherhood and unity, although no one lives e(cept maybe
some clerical positions in the city administration does not #now. Belgrade it
never so did not call. =rban legend has it that some of his party hosts were
coming to him by the Bridge of Brotherhood and =nity >so it said on the
map? and as#ed for directions where to go. The host was very confused and
wondered whether his guests in the right city.

*s a boycott of the new names was deliberate or not, whether the reason for the boycott connected with
never understood the reason for its demise, will never #now. 3owever, Belgrade #nows that pre Bran#o at the
same place there Bridge 'ing %le(ander, and today there is an initiative that the title and returns.

To understand what it is we need to get bac# history. %nd the story goes li#e this2 *n 17@0, he announced a
public competition to build the !rst road bridge across the $ava river in Belgrade, because until then across
the $ava )iver in Belgrade there was only railway bridge built at 1889. Aobs was awarded Bermany !rm.

Borgeous hanging bridge, which said it was more beautiful even than in Budapest, $ava bridge is supported
by two reinforced concrete pillars in the $erbianCByDantine style, while the steel cables holding Thisvideo
construction. The bridge was opened on 1E ,ecember 17@9, and is named after 'ing %le(ander
'arad0ord0evic, who was #illed two months before that, in &arseille.

Fin# between Belgrade and
Gemun

$ince the Bridge of 'ing
%le(ander 'arad0ord0evic
connected Belgrade with Gemun,
among which until then traveled
by ferry, the bridge was in the
prewar period was #nown as the
Gemun Bridge.
The opening was spectacular and corresponded to what the present government in Belgrade plan with the
bridge at %da. %cross the bridge of 'ing %le(ander crossed the ceremonial !rst #rla0evs#a cavalry made up of
several hundred horsemen.%cross the bridge was soon transferred the !rst tram to Gemun, which is popularly
#nown as the Gemun Bridge.

&agni!cent construction pro0ect of Belgrade served less than seven years since the partially demolished
during nemaH#og bombing of Belgrade in 1791. 1hat 3itler's s+uadron failed to destroy slay the %llies in the
bombing of Belgrade in 1799. *n the old uprights, which $tanding up together and the $ava coast, 17II was
erected bridge of brotherhood and uni+ueness. 3owever, from Belgrade became Bran#o and so to this day.

Gazelle head - a bridge that is due to negligence could be brought down : BaDela Bridge is the busiest bridge
in Belgrade over the $ava )iver. ,aily over it e(ceeds more than 1EI,000 vehicles, although it was designed
for about 90,000. $ince 17J0 when it opened until two years ago was not maintained at all, which is why he
came into a state of serious damage. The last two years on the reconstruction of the BaDela wor#ed day and
night about I00 wor#ers. %ccording to them, the BaDelle was so dilapidated that the reconstruction was a
challenge li#e the construction bac# in 17J0.

6onstruction of the BaDelle was right Yugoslav story C was built by local companies, was designed by the
professor of the /aculty of ngineering &isha ,0uric. The bridge was built from 17EE to 17J0 as an urban part
of the &otorway and 3ighway of Brotherhood and =nity, which was supposed to lin# the then $/)Y republics C
&acedonia, $erbia, 6roatia and $lovenia. Belgrade television broadcasted the testing capacity of the bridge.

The bridge is a combination of beams and harbor, @@" m long and "J.I m wide. Kverall width of %ugust
"1,8m >three lanes in both directions?, and above the basin rises "",8m during the middle water levels. 3is
design loo#s li#e a gaDelle head, which was named after this %frican animal and he never changed.

%nd now, bac# to the Yugoslav story. BaDelle with pride in his soul and heart rising young a#ci0aLi proletarians
from all over the country. *nterestingly, the two sides of the bridge and 0oints in one day, when they appeared
all engaged proletarians, and they in0ured and those with a temperature of @7 degrees.
ivil ngineer Tihoslav Tosic, then director of 4Bosei4 who wor#ed on the building, recalls in his boo# 4,iary of a
director4 anecdotes when Tito and Aovan#a came to inspect the wor#s.

41hen 6omrade Tito and his wife Aovan#a visited the site of the BaDela bridge in Belgrade >1Eth 11th 17EJ? *
was there as a representative of one of the performers ma#ing the bridge structure >in addition to &*N's? and
assembly >near the bridge construction?.
e(posing chief designer Bridge prof. ,r. &isha ,0uric on the characteristics of the ob0ect and the importance
of the bridge for solving the problem of tra.c in Belgrade, wife Aovan#a, loo#ing at the bridge, so elegantly,
without support in the river, s#ips $ava as#ed prof. ,uric2
',o you predict some bac#end' in the middle of the span of the bridge5 Aust in caseM

Nrofessor ,0uric patiently and e(plained that it was not necessary and that the bridge was safe and without
'props'M
&ail is oHigledno, *t 0ust so happens drugaHi0e thin#ing, drugarica Aovan#a said2 'Nroverite you this, * could sa
podupiraHem this was the safestM'

%fter three years before release only bridge in tra.c, at the time of strengthening and rehabilitation >the
oOset plates? * could not remember this conversation ... 4wrote engineer Tosic.

*magine a university professor listened Aovan#a, now we have a tripod gaDelle or a wounded gaDelle.

Pancevac - eternally felerian Bridge 2 6onstruction of Nancevo bridge, the Bridge of 'ing Neter 'arad0ord0evic,
best demonstrates the degree of progress of the then state since the bridge opened 0ust a year after Bran#o
17@I.

&ost of 'ing Neter was the !rst real bridge over the ,anube, and opened by the NrinceC)egent Naul
'arad0ord0evic. *mmediately afterwards, the bridge is crossed and the !rst train. 3owever, as Bran#o, this
bridge has not survived the $econd 1orld 1ar.
%fter nemaH#og attac# on Yugoslavia on %pril E, 1791, the command of the Yugoslav %rmy has decided to lift
into the air three e(isting bridges in Belgrade >two over the $ava )iver and one over the ,anube? in a vain
attempt to slow down the progress of the Berman army.Bermans Nancevac repaired the bridge for their own
purposes, but it was damaged during the bombing on %pril 1E and $eptember @, 1799.

1hen they began to retreat from Belgrade in Kctober 1799, the Bermans destroyed the bridge. Kf the seven
pillars of only one survived, and the bridge was rebuilt in 179E as part of war reparations and built by the
Berman !rm. Kn construction and clear rubble participated )ussians crvenoarme0ci, and today in the baDaar
can hear that it is responsible as most poorly built.

1hen he !nally completed on November "7, the tape is prese#ao the mu# Aosip BroD Tito, and the bridge is
crossed !rst train, as 11 years before that. The bridge was then called Bridge of the )ed %rmy, but among of
Belgrade remained forever the name Nancevo bridge. The real name of the ,anube bridge today #nows little
of its users.

%lthough city authorities repeated that the bridge was safe to use, drivers do not thin# so, especially when
passing through the large hole to loo# muddy ,anube.$erious reconstruction waiting since 17EI when the
last time it was done, and probably priHe#a-e because in early "011 stated that there is no money.

Old ava bridge - a bridge that was rescued teacher Bridge that connects the bus station and Kld /airgrounds
built by the Bermans during 1orld 1ar ** >179"?, intending to put it on the Tisa river in /rog, but it is set in
Belgrade because it was the only bridge bridging $ava Bridge >'ing %le(ander was demolished?. Besides him
over the $ava )iver in the function was still the only bridge in $abac, but he was in very poor condition.
The bridge was set up as a temporary solution, which has lasted for J0 years. The Bermans called it 4NrinD
ugen4, and after the war, Belgrade called him 'raut bridge. 3owever, these names are now forgotten.

*nteresting story on this build is that it is mining, which the Bermans were planning to Kctober 1799, sapasao
Belgrade teacher &iladin Garic C completely forgotten !gure in $erbian your history, and a real +uiet and Nrle.

Teacher Garic participated as a reserve o.cer in the Bal#an 1ars 171"C171@.>when it demined bridge on the
river P&N*6% near Bitola?, as well as in the /irst 1orld 1ar when it was one of those who survived the
%lbanian Bolgotha.

%t that time !fty year teacher ran from the basement of their building and between the three armies, the
Bermans as they retreated, and the partisans and the )ed %rmy who was attac#ing, prese#ao the mu#C
throughs and saved the bridge demolition. %ccording to his testimony, over a month ago he saw how the
Bermans placed mines and studied whenever he could go where cables and that the mines were connected
to a detonator.
That on "0 Kctober 1799, he heard the cries of the )ussians in the neighborhood, ran out of the basement
and headed for the bridge wee#s inspired by 4the idea that it saved at any cost.4 The bridge has arrived with
a group of )ussian soldiers and reviewed with them the pillars under the bridge. Together they spotted that
under the third pillar wooden bo(es with e(plosives, and that the fuse is already lit and the system. The
)ussians stayed in a shelter, and Garic ran out, grabbed pinors#i spade that was lying ne(t to a dead
nemaH#og soldiers and began to stro#e the detonator until prese#ao the mu# 4as mil# white wire.4 The hissing
stopped the old tram bridge was saved.

%fter 1orld 1ar ** the bridge was rebuilt several times. /or the !rst time from 17E9 to 17E7, and the last time
from "00J to "008. Trams are over it released in 1789 as part of the construction of the tram line to the Bloc#
9I and since then, this is the only vessels which trams from the old town of traveling to New Belgrade.

!he old railway bridge - a witness to all wars 2 the twentieth day of %ugust 1889 opened the 9E"Cmeter long,
J,"00 tonne railway bridge, which bridge the $ava rested on si( stone pillars. This is the bridge with the most
turbulent history since it was built and destroyed si( times.
6onstruction was started on 1 Aanuary 188" according to the ;ienna 6onvention, according to which the
railways of %ustriaC3ungary 0oins with the $erbian railway bridge on the $ava. &ost could not boast of
aesthetic values, but for @0 years served of Belgrade to switch from one to the other ban# of the $ava. The
!rst time was destroyed during the /irst 1orld 1ar 1719 and mined by the $erbian army in order to prevent
the rush of the %ustroC3ungarian army in Belgrade.

The bridge was rebuilt in 1717 and again demolished at the beginning of the war in 1791, the Bermans it
then correct a to the railway could transfer their personnel and e+uipment to the &iddle ast. ,uring their
occupation of Belgrade Bermany command ma#es a decision on the construction of another bridge opposite
trac# twenty yards downstream. Both bridges suOer in %llied bombing in 1799, to #eep them in the same year
the Bermans destroyed during the retreat.

Today the old railway bridge was built after the $econd 1orld 1ar, as part of war reparations and was the
only Belgrade railway bridge over the $ava )iver and the construction of the railway bridge in 17J7. Today
over it trains tra.c between Belgrade and $rem main railway station.

"ew #eleznika Bridge - a marvel of "ikola $a%dina 2 ,vo#oloseHni QeleDniH#a new bridge on the $ava morao
is to cater to the principle that bridge u 0ednom poteDu, beD stubova, saying, Bod shots of what is selected
and salvation sa system bac#stay pieces, old which is 90 godina #asni0e primen0eno i on the bridge where
%de.
The bridge was built as part of the reconstruction of the Belgrade railway 0unction >the soCcalled solution
4Nro#op4 which was never completed?. *t was designed a#ademo# Ni#ola 3a0din e(pert #nown around the
world by utiliDing slanted tie.&any of Belgrade their appearance reminiscent of the socialist period, and the
more recent origin and relatively peaceful socioCpolitical circumstances not related to him some particular
stories and anecdotes.

Belgrade addition to the above there are also KstruQniH#i bridge that is part of the ring road around the city,
and in early ,ecember open bridge across the $ava near Kbrenovac which will allow the municipality to the
Belgrade $urcin arrives in 0ust 10 minutes.

This opening passed without the pomp and ceremonial ribbon has thwarted the architects who wor#ed on
it. Then they crossed over the bridge Belgrade &ayor ,ragan ,0ilas and the mayor of whose mandate 1779,
the bridge began to build C Nebo0sa 6ovic.
The bridge near Ada was officially opened New Year's Eve, although Bograani during the summer had a chance to wal
about with it one weeend and switch from one ban to another basin! "iti#ens gave him the name, including craft and many
proposals such as Bridge Nova $%oovic, "ica $ra#a or needle Belgrade, won a simple and domesticated name & 'os near
Ada!
,uring the construction of another bridge in Belgrade, the soCcalled 6hinese bridge >because it do 6hinese
companies and wor#ers?. 3e will stretch across the ,anube and povaDiva-e Gemun and Borca. %lthough it
was planned that the bridge is completed until "01@ due to delays wor#s opening is postponed for Kctober
"019.

Belgrade bridges weapon suicide 2 Belgrade bridges are #nown for having a large number of unfortunate and
depressed each year commit suicide by 0umping oO them. Knly with Bran#o's bridge year 0umped about 90
people. %las )enato who was !shing on the ,anube at the foot NanHevca became Belgrade's urban legend,
because everyClittle shady from the ,anube out a suicide. $ometimes it fails to revive in his little boat, and
sometimes only allow the family to be unhappy people deserve to bury, without wondering where they were
ta#en the river.

This 4other4 history of Belgrade bridges and opening of the bridge on %da was the reason that the site
N0uD.net >which publishes humorous !ctional news? inform $erbia by whom the writer would bridge could be
called. Kf course, having 0umped with him. 3ere are their stories2

4News about connecting the two ends of the bridge over %da 6iganli0a gladly greeted by a de0ected writers
and artists throughout $erbia. % large number of writers for years thin#ing about 0umping oO a bridge, but
considering that Bran#o's bridge already #nown by Bran#o 6opic, and the other bridges were not overly
attractive, have still remained deprived of that moment.
/rom now on, however, in the bohemian circles of depressed already beginning to match about who will be
the !rst to 0ump to a new, truly veliHanstevnog, bridge and so it brendirali his name for all time.
The famous writer &ar# ;ido0#ovi- said that for him the greatest honor was when this bridge was named
'&ar#' on him, while $vetislav Basara, as we learned, already bought two bottles of vod#a Baltic to mentally
prepared to 0ump oO a bridge somewhere tonight around midnight. %lso, a 0ump has already announced
several bloggers who see this as a uni+ue opportunity to become famous and somehow ac+uire and fourth,
true postCmortem, the reader.
Nhotographers and reportage teams are already on site and are ready to 0ump ove#oveHe !rst note of a
writer, and his entry into history as boo#ies already have the list with +uotas not only for writers but also for
the place on which to fall. $o stand with hot dogs carries 11290 +uota until the +uota that the ;ido0#ovi- 0ust
fa#ing it and will 0ump bandQi0em only 1.80.
/rom the associations '1ithout you can' 1e have got a notice that people with love problems for now remain
in diving with Bran#o's bridge, due to less height, because in most cases they do not really want to #ill, but
only to draw attention to themselves 4 .

Bridges of memories chronicler

)ims#y vi0adu#t code $ingidunum
Nontoon bridges across the $ava these were built in the ByDantine era, and
during the Tur#ish raids into urope. $uleiman Nasha warlord 'aradDa done it
before winning in Belgrade in 1I"1, while builders $ultan %hmed near the
village of ;isn0ica !rst bridged the ,anube in 1I7I. %t the same place, 1"0
years later, the army ugene of $avoy has built a new pontoon bridge and won
Belgrade >1J1J?.

3owever, the most spectacular bridge in Belgrade was built in 1E88.The
%ustroC3ungarians bridge the $ava )iver near KstruDnice and then over %da
6iganli0a. /irst, he made long bridge or bridge across the marsh, over
vodoplavnog !eld of Novi Beograd. This bridge was leaning over pontonac
Basin.(perienced master ,0ord0evic Belgrade, in 0ust one month with the help
of 900 wor#ers, raised the long bridge, using ",000 trees, 1,100 wooden posts,
poles and beams 1I,I00 1",000 palisade of logs.