PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Semerád, Matouš
AU  - Havrda, Jan
TI  - The chain bridge of Francis I as an archaeological find : Discovery of the entrance ramp to the bridge on the Vltava river side at Malá Strana
DP  - 2016 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 53--72
VI  - 32
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2016.2.03
IS  - 02316056
AB  - Around the mid-19th century three chain bridges were built over River Vltava in Prague. The earliest of these, the bridge of Francis I by the constructor Bedřich Schnirch, was replaced in 1899 by a new stone bridge, today the Legion bridge. During a standard archaeological rescue excavation, the entrance ramp of the bridge was revealed in a trench for the reconstruction of a water pipe in Vítězná street, Malá Strana. This article also mentions other archaeological excavations of Prague industrial buildings.