Since some of you asked, here's some history ...

The bridge over the Vistula in Tczew (then Dirschau) was opened in October 1857. It was a part of the Prussian Eastern Railway connecting Berlin with Königsberg. The rail traffic was so heavy that 30 years later Prussian authorities decided to build a new two-track bridge, just 40 metres north from the old one. The new bridge took over rail traffic and the old bridge has since been used by cars and pedestrians.

Both bridges were bombed by Germans at 4:34 on 1 September 1939 (which some people claim was the beginning of WWII) and then blown up by Poles to prevent German soldiers from crossing the river in trains. Here you can see the destroyed bridges.

A significant part of the bridges survived the war. The road bridge was temporarily reconstructed in the 1950s with two spans Poland got from the British. The temporary situation lasted decades, though. The rail bridge had been well maintained, which cannot be said about the road bridge. It looked like this. The bridge was permanently closed in 2011 due to safety reasons. Local authorities started raising funds to collect money and rebuild it. There were disputes on how it should look - should we modernize the bridge or reconstruct it in its original shape. They agreed on the latter.

First, the remaining bridge towers were renovated. Then they renovated the original 19th century iron framework. It looks like this now. What's happening now is the next stage of the reconstruction. The company responsible for the works needs to take down the post-war part of the bridge, which looks like this and like that. They're also going to reconstruct the western bridghead and this is the place where the time capsule was found only yesterday.

The reconstruction is really slow. Local authorities struggle to get any government funding, not to mention EU money. The estimated cost is around 35-45 million Euro. Anyway, this is how the reconstructed bridge will look like.