The construction was prepared secretly during the winter and spring of 1410, floated down the Vistula, and assembled above Czerwińsk on June 30, enabling Polish units to efficiently and swiftly cross the river within three days.

This structure provided a faster crossing of the Vistula, which came as a surprise to the Teutonic command and facilitated the concentration of Polish-Lithuanian forces at Czerwińsk.

[2] The decision to build the bridge was made in early December 1409 during a council meeting in Brześć Kujawski attended by King Władysław Jagiełło, Grand Duke Vytautas, and their closest advisors.

[3] The elements of the crossing were clandestinely prepared during the winter and spring months of 1410, upstream of the Vistula river, near Kozienice, close to the Radom Forest [pl], from which materials for construction were obtained.

[5] The choice of Kozienice as the place of work was due to the proximity of the forest and the fact that it was one of the last major settlements on the Vistula river, close to the area of military concentration, which was not located within the territory of the Duchy of Masovia.

[11] It appears that priority in using the bridge was given to baggage trains and artillery, while some cavalry units may have swum across the river due to the low water level that summer.

[13] The crossing was completed without technical damage or major disruptions by several tens of thousands of troops, along with artillery, baggage trains, and camp followers.

After the conclusion of the campaign in the Dobrzyń Land, the king with court retinue, baggage train, urban contingents, and part of the levy of knights stood on September 25 on the Vistula near Przypust (near Aleksandrów Kujawski).

[27] The Czerwińsk Floating Bridge facilitated a swift crossing of the Vistula river, accelerating the concentration of Polish and Lithuanian forces.

Długosz presented in his Annals an account of a meeting in Toruń (July 3) between the Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen and Dobiesław Skoraczewski, a Polish knight serving the Hungarian envoys, Stibor of Stiboricz, and Mikołaj Gara.

When Skoraczewski, who had seen the structure, began to explain its actual appearance, Jungingen dismissed his words as lies or too biased assessment of the power of the King of Poland due to the origin of the interlocutor.

[30] It is possible that this account is not reliable but rather the result of deliberate, biased portrayal of the Grand Master in the chronicle as arrogant and full of pride, disdainful of the opponent.

It is also possible that the Grand Master quickly learned about the bridge and crossing, and the conversation with the Polish knight confirmed the information he had received earlier.

In Polish scholarly literature, this construction is considered a bold and innovative solution, a spectacular success of contemporary military engineering, particularly in terms of assembly speed and the length of the bridge.

Additionally, in the summer campaign of 1410, a similar bridge was assembled on the Narew river near Pułtusk for the crossing of Lithuanian forces.

Chronologically closest to the Great War with the Teutonic Order was Conrad Kyeser's Bellifortis, a work completed around 1405, richly illustrated, where both in the description and in the miniature, a floating bridge is depicted, which may resemble the one at Czerwińsk.

[34] In January 2010, on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, there was an idea to create a replica of the bridge to commemorate this object and popularize knowledge about it.

Erected on a small hill, the monument depicts Władysław Jagiełło on horseback, whose bridle is held by Zbigniew Oleśnicki (the royal secretary during the Great War), while the starosta Dobrogost Czarny presents the monarch with plans for the construction of the bridge.