The Melan Bridge is located in Emma Sater Park on the east side of Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States.

[2] Austrian engineer Josef Melan developed a new system of concrete reinforcement for bridge construction in the early 1890s.

A fellow Austrian, Fritz von Emperger, introduced the system in the United States, and obtained a patent for it in 1893.

[3] Von Emperger designed this bridge the same year to span a crossing over Dry Creek south of Rock Rapids.

Due to local public sentiment, the county and the state highway commission moved the historic structure to the park in 1964.