Palacký Bridge Explained

Palacký Bridge
Native Name:	Palackého most
Native Name Lang:	cs
Coordinates:	50.0728°N 14.4122°W
Mapframe-Zoom:	14
Crosses:	Vltava
Locale:	Prague
Open:	1876

The Palacký Bridge (1876) is a bridge in Prague. It is one of the oldest functioning bridges over the Vltava in Prague after the Charles Bridge.

It was built as the third major bridge shortly after the 1868 opening of the Franz Joseph Bridge, designed by Rowland Mason Ordish which was damaged in 1941 and dismantled in 1946.^[1]

Josef Václav Myslbek created statues of four pairs of legendary couples for the bridge: Ctirad and Šárka, Libuše and Přemysl, Lumír and Píseň , and Záboj and Slavoj. These were later removed to the grounds of the Vyšehrad.

Notes and References

The new Werner twentieth century edition of the Encyclopaedia Vol.19 1907 "The two sides of the river are connected by seven bridges, of which the most important are the Kaiser Franz suspension bridge, the new Palacky bridge, and the fine old Carls bridge. This last, erected between 1350 and 1500, "