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The Friendship Bridge (French: Pont de l’amitié, German: Freundschaftsbrücke) crosses the river Saar south of Saarbrücken, thus connecting the municipality Kleinblittersdorf (which nowadays belongs to Saarland) whith the lorrainian Grosbliederstroff.
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Grosbliederstroff and Kleinblittersdorf municipalities
The idea to connect these two places - that have belonged together for centuries - with a bridge already came up in the 1860s but wasn't carried out until the 1880s. Being destroyed at the very beginning of the Second World War, it was reconstructed in 1964. Its current form of a mere pedestrian bridge was developed in 1993.
The bridge impresses neither by its architectoral daringness nor by any possibly record-breaking measures. Its history, however, being full of changes enables the retracing of the development of the France-Germany relations from the French-German enmity to a close relationship within the European Union, especially marked by the Élysée Treaty from 1963. From time to time the bridge served as a border crossing between France and Germany, between that it temporarily shifted between being seen as an inner-german or inner-french work of construction.