Buza Péter: Bridges of the Danube - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

subsequently reinforced and the weight of the abutment was increased by the inclusion of cast iron blocks within the stone bastions.

Another problem was the designation of the bridge axis. Kossuth Lajos utca had to be extended to the Danube but the entire medieval core of the city, including the old City Hall, had to be sacrificed. The Parish Church of Pest barely escaped demolition. Its preservation, the result of significant popular support, was perhaps the first spectacular victory of the then still unorganized movement for the conservation of architectural monuments. Even today it is easy to see that the church was a major obstruction. By now we have become used to this solution dictated by necessity.

Special cables hold the enormous load

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