Travel Guide
University Bridge
This bridge was constructed around 1200 at the end of Wiezienna Street, and was initially used by travelers crossing the river. A written record from 1369 mentions a wooden bridge on this site consisting of two sections – a longer and a shorter one – that spanned the two arms of the Odra.
Being the longest in Wroclaw it was called the ‘Long Bridge’. The two sections of the bridge were separated by fortifications, which consisted of a defensive gate, a 16th-century guardhouse, and walls with the Młynska Gate. Between 1866 and 1869 a new iron bridge supported by stone pillars (designed by Kaumann) was constructed upstream of the old wooden one. The old bridge was dismantled in 1870. The present-day bridge is a 190-metre-long steel structure and in fact consists of two bridges spanning the two arms of the river, with a vista point at the east end. [Around Central Wroclaw]
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