Gistatic Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 On the northwestern corner of Kaunas county exists small and remote village of Lyduvėnai, Village is small and almost without any places of interest but it has railway bridge - largest bridge in Lithuania. And even more interesting fact is that this large bridge is built not over the big river but over the valley with very small river.Length of bridge is 600 meters, heigth 45 meters. First wooden bridge here was built in 1915 - 1916 by the German army. At the time it was largest wooden bridge in Europe. But wooden bridge was unstable and in 1918 German army built concrete bridge with statue of field-marshal Hindenburg nearby. In 1926 - 1928 bridge has been reconstructed by Lithuanian authorities and statue of Hindenburg was removed. In 1944 former bridge was blown and rebuilt only in 1951. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gistatic Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 The bridge today 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gistatic Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 About this bridge in 1925 book Die Wiederherstellung der Eisenbahnen auf dem ostlichen Kriegsschauplatz. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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