St. James's Bridge
Background
A wooden bridge was constructed at this place in 1824, later than other bridges of the period, and for a long time it was therefore called the New Bridge (German: Neue Brücke). In 1915, it was replaced by a reinforced concrete corbel bridge by the engineer Alois Král and the architect Alfred Keller. It was described by the art historian Damjan Prelovšek as a "monumental neo-Biedermeier architectural language of late-Secession Vienna."
Since 1954, there has been a plaque with an inscription on the bridge about a 15th-century town watermill, which caused damage to farmers and was destroyed in the 1515 peasant revolt. Four bronze relief plaques depicting scenes from The Water Man, a Ljubljana-related Romantic ballad by the poet France Prešeren, were intended to be put on the fence of the bridge. However, this has been never realised.
References
- ^ Habič, Marko (1997). "Šentjakobski most" [St. James's Bridge]. Prestolnica Ljubljana nekoč in danes [A Pictorial Chronicle of a Capital City]. National Publishing House of Slovenia. ISBN 86-341-2007-4.
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ignored (help) - ^ "Šentjakobski most" [Šentjakob Bridge]. Ljubljana Tourism. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ Bric, Renato (28 March 2008). "Med mostovi slovenske prestolnice" [Among the Bridges of the Slovene Capital]. MMC RTV Slovenija (in Slovenian).
- ^ Dobida, Karel (1936). "In memoriam S.M. Peruzzi". Ljubljanski zvon. Vol. 56, no. 8. ISSN 1408-5909.
- ^ Meze (11 January 1983). "Nedokončani most" [Unfinished Bridge]. Naša komuna - delegatska priloga. Vol. 20, no. 1. p. 489.
External links
- Media related to St. James's Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
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