It was built between 1908 and 1910 to a design by Richard Pl\u00fcddemann. A new technology was used in its construction – the span is hooked up by steel straps to masonry 20-meter pylons set on the banks of the river. <\/p>\n
It is mostly built of Strzegom granite, only that this majority is the structural mass, pedestals and everything that is in the ground on both sides and that you can’t see. For this you can see decorative slabs of Karkonosze granite. <\/p>\n
The ceremonial opening of the Kaiser Bridge, as the crossing was called, was attended by the then German ruler Wilhelm II. After World War I, it was named the Freedom Bridge, but after a few years it was renamed the Kaiser Bridge again. <\/p>\n
In the spring of 1945, it was severely damaged. When buildings were being demolished in besieged Breslau at the site of today’s Grunwald Square and an airport was being built, it was decided that the tall pylons would impede airplane traffic, so the crowning turrets were demolished. <\/p>\n
The repairs took more than two years.<\/p>\n
For years it was the most important crossing of the Oder River in Wroclaw. The Grunwald Bridge was the site of many spectacular and dramatic events. According to urban legend, in the early lat. 50s, an airplane was flown under the bridge by one of Wroclaw’s aviators. The feat was supposedly the result of a social bet. <\/p>\n
In the 1980s, on the Grunwald Bridge, Wroclaw residents protesting the communists clashed with militia units. From Grunwaldzki you can perfectly see Ostr\u00f3w Tumski and the Grunwald Campus on one side, and on the other side Wroc\u0142aw’s first house on water and the monumental water tower. <\/p>\n
The bridge is 112.5 meters long and 18 meters wide.<\/p>\n
Grunwald Bridge can be reached:<\/p>\n