135 years ago, a unique bridge was opened in Strážnice

Stádlecký bridge (relocated from Podolí)

Prague - The first iron chain bridge on the European mainland was opened on June 8, 1824, in the castle park in Strážnice. It spanned one of the two arms of the Morava River that surrounds the local castle and had a span of 28.50 meters and a width of 4.42 meters. It stood approximately where the current statue of St. John of Nepomuk is located behind the bridge over the Baťa Canal, but later it became inadequate and was dismantled before 1930.
The author of its design was the outstanding Czech engineer Bedřich Schnirch, according to whose projects several other chain bridges were later realized. For example, the bridge in Loket over the Ohře (1836), the bridge of Emperor Francis I in Prague (1841), which stood at the site of today's stone Legion Bridge, or the bridge in Podolí (1847), which was relocated in the 1960s as a technical rarity to Stádlec, where it still stands today.