Petőfi híd

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Named after Horthy first

The bridge was named after Regent Miklós Horthy before it was even built. It opened in summer 1937, a slender three-span bridge that cost about ten million pengős. From September 1944 the railways took it over to carry war materials, and in the last days of the war it was blown up. After long debates it reopened on 22 November 1952 — wider, lighter, and renamed after the poet Sándor Petőfi.