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The Dubingiai Bridge has been restored. Photo from the Lithuanian Highway Administration.
The interwar period wooden log-pile bridge over the longest Asveja lake in Lithuania near Dubingiai in the Molėtai district has been completed. Testing of the bridge in late August confirmed that it was safe and useful. The value of the work performed under the contract is more than 1.8 million. Eur, reported the SE Lithuanian Highway Administration.
The Dubingiai (or Asveja) Bridge is the first wooden bridge over the lake in Lithuania, built in 1934 at the initiative of President Antanas Smetona. declared a technical and historical monument.
The bridge included in the List of Royal Cultural Heritage Sites is 75.4 m long and 8.4 m wide. During its revision, but without changing the external dimensions, load-bearing structures were installed: the wooden poles under the water were replaced by other metal ones and the ones above the water by new ones. Equipped with wooden railings and handrails.
It is announced that the repairs were carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture for managed heritage protection objects.
Dubingiai Bridge is one of three Lithuanian wooden bridges located on state roads: Joniškis – Dubingiai – Dirmeitai – Paberžė Regional Highway.
The weight of the vehicles traveling over the bridge is limited to 5 t.
The history of the bridge
Before the construction of the bridge over the lake, Count Tiškevičius installed a ferry and a boatman’s house. 1933 Lithuanian President A. Smetona, who arrived in Dubingiai, was unable to move to the city on the other side of the lake. It was this circumstance and the requests of the locals that led to the construction of the bridge being allowed.
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1934 June 3 with the participation of the President of Lithuania, the bridge was solemnly inaugurated.
Interestingly, in 1998. During excavations, piers from an ancient bridge were discovered near the Dubingiai Bridge. The remains of 24 oak and coniferous wooden posts are found at a depth of 1.20 to 12.0 m. According to the researchers, these are the remains of a medieval bridge that connected the then island of Dubingiai Castle with the coast. The long-term service life of the bridge can be judged by the fact that it has been repeatedly repaired or rebuilt, because part of the posts are not connected in a single system.
The oldest painting from Dubingiai Castle (1872) depicting the ruins of the old palace and the bridge leading to the castle site is the work of the artist Napoleon Orda (1807–1883).
Dubingiai Castle Site
The open bridge is a great opportunity to spend a weekend lunch in Dubingiai. After climbing the Dubingiai Castle site and traveling a cognitive path from the old island, now a peninsula, you can admire the panorama of Asveja, one of the largest and deepest lakes in Lithuania.
According to sources, in the XV century. Vytautas the Great was able to build a castle on this site. From the 16th century. Dubingiai is the homeland of the Dubviai and Biržai branches of the Radvila family. The most famous nobles of this branch are Duke Mikalojus Radvila Rudasis and his sister, the Queen of Poland Barbora Radvilaitė. 2004-2007 Thanks to the efforts of anthropologists, historians, art historians and archaeologists, the remains of 8 members of the Radvila family were identified: Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Voivodeship of Vilnius and Deputy of Livonia, Union of Lublin Hetman Mikalojus Radvila Rudojos, his son Mikalojus Radvila, Mikalojus Radvila’s wife, Elena Hlebovičaitė, Mikalojus Radvila (grandson of MR Rudoji), Jonušas VI Radvila and Anna Sobkovna (first wife of Kristupas Radvila Perkūnas).
2009 The remains of the Radvilas were reburied in a cemetery on the site of the Dubingiai Castle Church. 2009 The research results of the VU researchers have been awarded the National Prize for Scientific Progress.
2010 The publishing house of the Vilnius Academy of Arts has published a collective monograph: A. Kuncevičius, R. Jankauskas, R. Laužikas, D. Stankevičiūtė, I. Rutkauskaitė “Radvila Homeland in Dubingiai”, which summarizes the castle church of Dubingiai in 2003-2007. investigation.
The castle site has a cognitive trail with 6 observation stops close to archaeological and natural objects.
The length of the natural dirt trail is about 1.5 km, it is equipped with wooden stairs, information posts, benches. Since 2012 The castle site exhibits the surviving fragments of the Radvila Palace, covered with a hood, and the site of the former Evangelical Reformed Church with the Radvila Burial Pantheon, where Radvila Mikalojus Rudasis is also buried.
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