Reichsbrücke
The Reichsbrücke—German for “Imperial Bridge”—once formed one of Vienna’s vital Danube connections, linking Mexikoplatz in Leopoldstadt with the Donauinsel in Donaustadt. The first bridge here, the Kronprinz-Rudolph-Brücke, was built between 1872 and 1876 and formally opened on 21 August 1876; its name was changed to Reichsbrücke in 1919, after Austria became a republic. In the 1930s, authorities planned a suspension bridge to cut unemployment, using technical plans by Siegfried Theiß and Hans Jaksch, with artistic control by Clemens Holzmeister; the bridge was built between 1934 and 1937 and opened on 10 October 1937 by Cardinal Innitzer and Federal President Wilhelm Miklas. …
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