The Ivančice viaduct (Brno, Czech Republic) and Gustave Eiffel

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F24%3A00375078" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/24:00375078 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.4000/ephaistos.12842" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4000/ephaistos.12842</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ephaistos.12842" target="_blank" >10.4000/ephaistos.12842</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Ivančice viaduct (Brno, Czech Republic) and Gustave Eiffel

Original language description

The railway viaduct near the village of Ivančice by Brno has a unique position among the bridge structures in the Czech Republic. Together with the bridge at Chrást near Plzeň, it is associated with the name of the world-famous French architect Gustave Eiffel. Although historical research has shown that Eiffel was not involved in the construction of both bridges, the implementation of the construction of the bridges in the Czech lands (the Czech Kingdom) was based on the transfer of technical knowledge from the Western countries to the Habsburg Monarchy, of which the Czech lands were a part in the second half of the 19th century. At that time, the Czech lands already had a well-established and well-functioning structure of technical education, which certainly could adopt this information from abroad and apply it in technical and industrial practice with some delay behind its countries of origin. Eiffel is also associated with the Ivančice viaduct probably because the structure itself, which bears a distinct visual resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, was made by the French firm Société J.-F.Cail et Cie. The aim of this article is to present the design and construction of the bridge, its importance concerning the development of industrialization (urbanization) and therefore the railway network in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Czech lands, as well as the current view of the viaduct from the point of view of cultural and technical European heritage.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

e-Phaïstos

ISSN

2552-0741

e-ISSN

2552-0741

Volume of the periodical

XII

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

20

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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