Tumski Bridge ( pl, Most Tumski) is a steel bridge over the north branch of the
Oder river in
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. Constructed in 1889 it replaced an old wooden bridge to connect
Ostrów Tumski and
Wyspa Piaskowa. Until 1945, its name was ''Dombrücke''.
It is an old road bridge now open to
pedestrians only.
Tumski Bridge is also called Lovers Bridge, Cathedral Bridge or Green Bridge. It's a place of enamoured tradition for lovers. The bridge is full of
love locks which lovers leave to cherish their feelings. An important part of the ceremony is to throw the key into the Odra river.
In 1992 it was comprehensively renovated. During the renovation the original deck covering of
Zores section A Zores section (also: ''Z-section'') was a railway beam section designed by French engineer, {{Interlanguage link multi, Charles Ferdinand Zores, fr, 3=Charles Ferdinand Zores, vertical-align=sup, in the second half of the 19th century for use in t ...
s was replaced by an
orthotropic deck
An orthotropic bridge or orthotropic deck is typically one whose fabricated deck consists of a structural steel deck plate stiffened either longitudinally with ribs or transversely, or in both directions. This allows the fabricated deck both t ...
.
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Bridges in Wrocław
Tourist attractions in Wrocław
Pedestrian bridges in Poland
Steel bridges
Bridges completed in 1889
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