Meriç River, which forms a part of Turkey’s borders with Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey is entering Emerging from the river pours into the Aegean Sea via Edirne.
Religious court records state that there was once a wooden bridge across Meriç River and it was destroyed in the flood 1827.
Then the bridge was repaired for 3874 kurus. Mahmud II. ordered the construction of a stone bridge here instead of a wooden bridge was imperative. The construction of the bridge, which started in 1833, was interrupted by the economic depression of the Ottoman Empire. It was compeleted in 1847 during the reign of Abdülmecid, the son of Mahmud II.
There is a marble kiosk in the middle of the bridge. The bridge 263 m. of length, 7m. of width, positioned on 13 abutments. In the abutments of the bridge with 12 lancet arches are drainage units.
The fender piles on the abutments are triangular. On the arch of the first water discharge unit facing Edirne are embossed dragon figures, with the star and crescent and the twelve animal Turkish calendar on the left side.
The kiosk has a cover with cavetto vault that is positioned on seven columns, two of which in the front are dependent on each other. The pendant of the kiosk is ornamented in the neoclassical empire style.
Tasseled finials with star and crescent, arrows, flags and groups of swords are among the figures on the pendant. Traces of the Sultan’s signature inside a circular medallion in the middle of the pendant have reached our day.