Most Pilczycki has an unusually short history for a major city crossing: its official opening came on 20 July 1974. It was built in 1973, yet demolition followed in 2010. As you stand still on the sidewalk, imagine the traffic it was designed to carry across the Ślęza, linking Pilczyce on the river’s right bank with Żerniki on its left.
This was a road bridge on the Lotnicza–Kosmonautów route, with two carriageways and four traffic lanes in all. Its purpose was practical and urgent: it took car traffic away from the older, narrower Pilczycki Bridge, where tram tracks shared the roadway with vehicles. The newer crossing stood north of that older bridge, allowing the road traffic to be redirected there.
Structurally, it had three spans and a reinforced-concrete design; the central span used prefabricated prestressed Kujan beams. At 24 metres long and 26 metres wide, it also provided sidewalks on both sides, each 3.5 metres across. The construction of the Wrocław motorway bypass and its interchange brought another reshaping of this route, and this bridge was ultimately replaced by a newly built structure.
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