Sand Bridge connects the city centre to Sand Island.
It stands in a place, where the oldest bridge in Wroclaw was built. It was an element of the first Wroclaw's Oder river crossing, making up the initial fragment of the route leading from the mediaeval city northwards.
The present bridge replaced a timber span in 1861, and is of a broadly similar type to that which could have been built in timber.
It was designed by Ernst Uber in the form of two riveted steel lattice trusses, supporting a tramway and highway deck between them.