Mostar Bridge (1567)

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Mostar Bridge

Built:	1566 - 1567
Status:	rebuilt
Location:	Mostar, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Geographic Coordinates:	43° 20' 13" North 17° 48' 54" East
Crosses:	Neretva River

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Structural Type:

Arch bridge
fixed

Function / usage:

Road bridge

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure

Architect	Mimar Hajrudin

Firms, offices, etc. involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure
Rehabilitation
Structural engineering	General Engineering

Technical information
	Description	Value
Construction materials used
arch	stone
Dimensions

	height	19 m
	span	27.30 m

Chronology

9 November 1993

Croats shell the bridge to destruction.

2001

Reconstruction begins after two years of archeological research.

23 July 2004

Re-opened after careful reconstruction.

Notes & Comments

Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.

The reconstruction cost 15 million Euros.

Relevant Web Sites
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	archINFORM: Brücke über die Neretva - Stari Most (Alte Brücke), Mostar
	ArchNet: Stari most
	BBC News: Historic Mostar bridge being rebuilt (7.6.2001)
	BBC News: Symbolic Bosnia bridge to reopen (23.07.2004)
	BBC News: Work begins on Mostar bridge (7.6.2001)
	Bridge design & engineering: Rebuilding history
	Efforts to Reconstruct the Mostar Bridge...
	General Engineering: Stari Most
	Mostar and the Balkans
	Mostar Hypertext: Stones of Mostar
	SFOR Informer: The Old Mostar Bridge Project
	Stari Most

Relevant Literature
	Blakstad, Lucy Bridge, Birkhäuser, Basel (Switzerland) , ISBN 3764366435, 2002.
	Bonatz, Paul Brücken, Karl Robert Langewiesche Verlag, Königstein im Taunus (Germany) , 1956; pp. 42-3.
	Celic, Dz. Stari mostovi u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) , 1969.
	Dupré, Judith Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA) , ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 24-25.
	Dupré, Judith Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 24-25.
	Dupré, Judith Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany) , ISBN 3829004109; pp. 24-25.
	Jurecka, Charlotte Brücken (2^nd edition), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna (Austria) , ISBN 3703106204, 1986; pp. 146.
	Küffner, Georg Weitgehend originalgetreu wird die Stari Most wieder aufgebaut, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.), "Technik und Motor", 15.04.2003.
	Leonhardt, Fritz Brücken / Bridges (4^th edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3421025908, 1994; pp. 86.
	Maric, Vesna Rebuilding history, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 4th Quarter 2003, n. 33 v. 9 .
	Pequeux, Gilles La reconstruction du «Stari Most» à Mostar en Bosnie et Herzégovine, in "Travaux", March 2000, n. 762 .
	Wittfoht, Hans Buiding bridges, Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf (Germany) , ISBN 3764001763, 1984.

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