A bridge first built in 1945 has ended up as a pair of separate road structures. Here, Strzegomski Bridge carries the route between the Nowy Dwór side of the Ślęza and Muchobór Wielki on the other bank, along Strzegomska and Mińska streets. The original was a single reinforced-concrete span, supported by beams.
It measured just over 20 metres in length, while its full width was nearly 15 metres; the roadway itself took 6.7 metres, with broad pavements alongside. Stand safely on the pavement for a moment and notice how this is a working connection rather than a ceremonial riverside bridge. Between 2009 and 2011, the surrounding stretch of Strzegomska Street was rebuilt from one two-lane carriageway into two carriageways with four lanes altogether.
The crossing changed with it: traffic in the two directions now uses two distinct bridges. Before 1945, bridges across the Ślęza carried the German designation Lohebrücke. It was not an individual bridge name in the modern sense, but the general German term used for crossings over this river. The modest watercourse below has therefore shaped both the route and the vocabulary of this part of Wrocław.
