The Anna Jagiellon Bridge ( pl, Most Anny Jagiellonki) is a

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, part of the S2 expressway, across the

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. The bridge links the Węzeł Warszawa Wschodnia junction, in

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, with Węzeł Wał Miedzeszyński junction, in

Wawer Wawer is one of the districts of Warsaw, located in the south-eastern part of the city. The Vistula river runs along its western border. Wawer became a district of Warsaw on 27 October 2002 (previously it was a part of Praga Południe district, a ...

. It is the ninth bridge in Warsaw, and the longest and most southern river crossing across the Vistula in Warsaw. The construction of the bridge began in June 2017 and was set to be complete in the third quarter of 2020. This deadline was not met and the bridge opened for public use on 22 December 2020.

Name

Before the present name, the name of the bridge was the generic Southern Bridge ( pl, Most Południowy), named after the bridge's location in southern Warsaw. This name was used in numerous planning studies and documents, so over time it began to be commonly treated as the name after completion. In 2021, the mayor of Warsaw,

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, announced that he would submit an application to the

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to name the bridge after Polish queen

Anna Jagiellon Anna Jagiellon ( pl, Anna Jagiellonka, lt, Ona Jogailaitė; 18 October 1523 – 9 September 1596) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587. Daughter of Polish King Sigismund I the Old and Italian duchess Bon ...

. Earlier, there were proposals to name the new bridge after the

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, the Battle of Warsaw Bridge, or the Piłsudski Legions Bridge. The idea of naming the bridge in honour of Anna Jagiellon was positively assessed by the City Nomenclature Team. On 10 June 2021, the Warsaw City Council adopted a resolution that she will be the patron of the bridge.

References

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