Palacký Bridge

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

Palacký Bridge Palackého most
Palacký Bridge, view from Jiráskův most
Coordinates	50°04′22″N 14°24′44″E
Crosses	Vltava
Locale	Prague, The Czech Republic
Characteristics
Material	Stone
Total length	228,8 m
Width	10,7 m
Height	11-12 m
History
Architect	Bedřich Münzberger
Engineering design by	Josef Reiter
Constructed by	Brothers Klein, A.Schmolla and E.Gärtner
Opened	1878
Location

Palacký Bridge, view from Hořejší nábřeží

View of the north side of the 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.^{[citation needed]}