Show buda and pest are united difed by fifth danube edrid bridge 16 built by hungarians Hung arians the fifth bridge to span the danube be between Buda and pest is open to the public writes the ifie budapest correspondent of the london suhn day observer the bridge which stands near the Horthy miklos road is a plain solid structure designed by hungarian architects anda ailt from hungarian materials by huri workmen it indicates the swift development of the capital in i 1 the last 10 years bears for it opens pew prospects over a district which not long jong ago was wag marshy land ake th el fifth bridge commer commemorates notates both the world war and the postwar ost period and brings the history 0 of the city c ty up to date A hundred years year ago the only means of crossing the danube was a bridge made of 43 42 boats which was taken apart and stored iri in winter when the ice formed for med the citizens walked across the river feromone fior none town to the other the first bridge to be built was the chain bridge below the royal palace after a ate r count had struggled for far seven barry cary the cost florins florans flor ins abbath toll was two farthings far things it ed in december 1819 1849 i 1 twenty seyen seven years later the margaret bridge was built by a french engineer ri named alilea gouin not by eiffel who was then th en director in the firm which employed him the bridge was opened by the suicide of several persons who threw th themselves ema down from its parapets and immortalized by b y arany in his ballad on the scene the francis joseph bridge was wilt built in 1896 for the hungarian millenary and was opened by the emperor hammering a silver nail into the construction during the revolution this nail was lost but w was s later found and may now be seen under glass I 1 |