Flour Bridge is a bridge in the center of St. Petersburg.
Next to the bridge there is a museum with a characteristic theme - the Museum of Bridges.
The flour bridge is perhaps one of the most modest and simple in the city, but at the same time it attracts attention with its "airy" lattice and unpretentiousness, which gives the bridge a refined elegance.
The flour Bridge is completely pedestrian.
The name "Flour" bridge was given due to the fact that it is located in the alignment of Flour Lane, which, in turn, was named "Flour" because in the 18th century, wooden shops were located between Sadovaya Street and the embankment of the Catherine Canal (now the Griboyedov Canal), where flour was sold.
The flour Bridge spans the Griboyedov Canal, and connects the Kazan and Spassky Islands.
The bridge has a total length of 22.2 meters and a width of 2.8 meters.
Flour bridge is a single-span bridge-heat pipe, the span of which is a metal girder structure. The abutments of the bridge are reinforced concrete on a pile foundation. The upper and lower girder belts are outlined by circular curves of different radii. Heating pipes are laid between the beams.
The covering of the passing part of the bridge consists of removable metal sheets.
The railings of the bridge are metal, of an exquisite artistic pattern.
Upstream of the Griboyedov Canal from the Flour Bridge there is a pedestrian hanging Bank Bridge, decorated with large sculptures of four winged lions (griffins), and below (very close) - the roadway and pedestrian Stone bridge.
Photo of the Bank Bridge
Photo of the Stone Bridge
The history of the Flour Bridge
The first pedestrian bridge at this place appeared only in 1931, because before that there was no special need for a crossing at this place, because only 100 meters downstream of the canal there was and now there is a Stone Bridge.
The construction of the Flour Bridge was required mainly for laying heating pipes of Lenenergo through the Griboyedov Canal. Initially, it was a wooden three-span bridge of a beam-split system on wooden pile supports. The superstructure consisted of three runs, each of three beams, between which the heating pipes were located.
In 1951, according to the project of the Lendormostproekt Institute (author - engineer P.V. Bazhenov), a new metal single-span bridge was built on the site of the old wooden bridge by that time. The abutments of the bridge were the walls of the embankment of the Griboyedov Canal. The pavement of the passer-by was wooden with steps that made it easier for pedestrians to ascend and descend.
The metal railings of the bridge railing were previously installed on the neighboring Bank Bridge at the end of the 19th century, but during the reconstruction of the Bank Bridge in 1952, the railings were moved to the Flour Bridge.
In 1977, the bridge was repaired: the wooden elements of the bridge and the painting of metal structures and railings were replaced.
During major repairs in 2014, the boardwalk of the passer-by part of the bridge was replaced with removable metal plates.
Despite the fact that the Flour Bridge owes its appearance and appearance to the Soviet era, it is now often used as one of the symbols of "old Petersburg".
Practical information
Near the Flour Bridge, at the address: Flour lane 2, is The Bridge Museum, which exhibits paintings, watercolors, photographs, drawings and models of bridges, is a collection of more than 60 reduced copies of the main symbols of the Northern capital: starting with the model of the 1770s and ending with models of bridges built in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
Coordinates of the Flour Bridge: 59°55'51.0"N 30°19'15.0"E (59.930833, 30.320833).
Nearest metro stations: "Nevsky Prospekt", "Gostiny Dvor", "Admiralteyskaya", "Sadovaya", "Spasskaya" and "Sennaya Ploshchad".
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