Borovsko Bridge

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The Borovsko Bridge (Czech: Borovský most) is an unfinished highway bridge near Borovsko, part of Bernartice municipality, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. It is commonly known as the "Czech Avignon" or "Hitler's Bridge". The original bridge over the Sedlický River near Borovsko was under construction at KM 59 of the highway between 1939–42 and 1948-50.

Construction was commenced in July 1939 by the civil engineering company "ing. J. Domanský".

The planned budget was 5,552,400 crowns. Despite most civil engineering projects in Czechoslovakia being halted after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, in order that material scheduled for them could be diverted to the Nazi war effort, the construction of the bridge continued, although it was halted after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi overlord of Czechoslovakia. Under the Communist regime which came about at the end of World War II, construction resumed, even though the emphasis at the time was on heavy industry and railroads rather than on automobile travel.

The bridge itself was completed at the end of 1950 and formally approved by the authorities in 1952. However, highway construction was suspended...