The bridge was built in 1892 by the Christiania Municipal Road Administration, in cast iron with detailed decorations. The bridge was rebuilt (extended double-wide) in 1982. The new bridge was completed in similar style as the original, including copies of original details in cast iron construction and the old railing was retained.
By 2014, the bridge was showing signs of corrosion, and it has been listed by the SVV (Road Authorities) for renovation. As with other road bridges, the ironwork has to be protected from aggressive attack from chlorides that are present each winter with salt-gritting of the roads, sulphurous emissions from vehicles that produce acidic residues via condensation and rain, hot and cold conditions that create thermal expansion in the hot summer months and freezing water that can expand inside any microcracking on the surface of the iron in the winter months.
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