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

For this bridge, unlike the Chain Bridge, the engineers managed to develop a suitable stiffening system. Important technological innovations, such as the pendulum-like design of the pylons and the special anchoring of the chains, were employed. The Elizabeth Bridge was assembled from gigantic, nearly fifteen-metre long chain sheets. They were made in Diósgyőr after the Krupp Works, which was also approached, backed out of the commission due to the lack of suitable facilities.

Thus the period’s most beautiful chain bridge in the world, boasting the longest span, was constructed. It remained the longest bridge of its kind until the end of the 1920s, or even longer since the bridge of Florianapolis in Brazil, which is longer, is

The load test of the Elizabeth Bridge

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