Elgeseter Bridge

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Elgeseter Bridge (in Norwegian Elgeseter bru) is on European route E6 which passes over the Nidelva river and connects Prinsens street in the center of Trondheim (a city and municipality in the county of Sør-Trøndelag, Norway) with Elgeseter street at Elgeseter in the south. Trondheim city council decided on March 17, 1949 that the bridge should be built. Elgeseter bridge was opened in 1951 after a construction period of 2 years.

The main entryway into Trondheim for hundreds of years has been at Elgeseter; the first bridge here is mentioned in 1178. It was on this bridge that the battle between the birkebeiners and the baglers took place in 1199. Two years after the city was destroyed by fire in 1681, the Old Town Bridge (in Norwegian Gamle Bybro) was built. Until then the Elgeseter Bridge was the only connection across the Nidelva. The bridge has been reconstructed many times. In the 16th century it was for a period called "Gårdsbroen" and "Kanikke bro". After the Old Town Bridge was completed, the bridge to Elgeseter fell to decay, and collapsed. In 1863 a bridge was again constructed at this location when the Trondhjem-Størenbanen railway was completed to Trondheim. This bride was called "Kongsgårds bro". The railway bridge was converted into a roadway bridge in 1885, after the train station was relocated to Brattøra.

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• List of bridges in Norway
• List of bridges in Norway by length

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