Rich sculptural decoration was originally also on the side facing Malá Strana, but it was destroyed when the Swedes unsuccessfully besieged the bridge in 1648 (to be commemorated by an inscription on a memorial plaque by B. In the upper part, which represents the heavenly sphere, there is St. The second sitting figure represents Václav IV, and between them, there is St. Just like the bridge itself, also the tower was built by the Parléř’s smelting plant the lower part came into existence when Charles IV was still alive, which means the sitting statue being a part of the decoration, is the real resemblance of the emperor. Old Town Bridge Tower (Staroměstská mostecká věž) Public transport operated here until the World War II, cars stopped driving across the bridge in 1965. Even the buses were not ideal, so the transport was again stopped the next year, to be renewed in 1932 using buses on tires. Yet the heavy carriages vibrated the construction, and thus were replaced by buses in 1908. In order to preserve the artistic view of the bridge and not to ruin it by wires leading at the top, Frantisek Křižík came with a special line through the bridge deck. Trite sidewalks on the sides of the bridge were in 1833 replaced by sidewalks of iron ranges, furnished with anti-slipping notches.įrom 1883, there was a horse tram passing across the bridge, replaced in 1905 by electrical line. The staircase to Kampa was built in 1844 in place of old stairs from 1785. In 1723, the bridge was lighted via oil lanterns. in the years 1432 (5 pillars destroyed), 1784, and namely in 1890, when the wood deposits from Vltava’s upper stream demolished 2 pillars and 3 vaults. It was damaged by floods several times, e.g. Petr Parléř was appointed to manage to construction, yet the bridge was only completed after his death in the beginning of the 15 th century it is made of sand-stone blocks, 515.76 m long, 9.5 m wide (it was one of the mightiest bridge constructions of its time), it rests on 16 vaults of different span reaching from 16.62 to 23.38 metres. There are more similarly magical connections relating to Charles Bridge. When we write the numbers down as follows: 1 3 5 7 (year) 9 (day) 7 (month) 5 3 1 (time), we get an increasing and decreasing scale with number 9 at the top: The foundation stone was laid down by Charles IV on the 9 th July 1357 at 5:31 a.m., and the date and time have not been selected randomly. Borovský) is the oldest preserved Prague bridge. (the title Charles Bridge only became popular around 1870 based on an earlier suggestion of K. František ChurchĬharles Bridge (Stone Bridge, Prague Bridge) Vaclav’s wine pillar at the corner of St. You can see what the original Romanic bridge paving looked like by the St. The head of the Bearded man (Bradáč) located today within the Old Town riverside wall, was originally also a part of the Judith’s Bridge, probably on the first Old Town vault, and it served the purpose of a water mark. Other remains of the vaults can be found in the cellars of several houses in the U Lužického semináře Street. The Old Town bridge tower from the 13 th century is built in the emphasized corner buttress of the Křížovnický Monastery, and under the monastery’s front face, there is a preserved outer Old Town vault (today a gallery).
There is a preserved Romanic relief of the original bridge inside the smaller Malostranska bridge tower (depicting a sitting person, probably the ruler, passing a document to a kneeling one - there are different interpretations of who the persons might be and on what occasion). The bridge not only got the name of educated and energetic wife of Vladislav, Judith of Thuringia, but she probably also had merit in the actual building of the bridge. This bridge existed until 1342, when it was destroyed by flood. In the 10 th century, there are some references to a wooden bridge, which was, however, threatened by each flood, and therefore Vladislav II had a stone bridge built around 1170 and named it Judith’s Bridge. First of all, there used to be a crossing via bound logs, the so called steps, in place of the bridge.
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