[1][2] Since September 1919, a year after the end of the First World War, plans for the construction of a permanent road bridge were already set.

[1][2] Before the start of construction, a contract was made between the military and civilian authorities, by which the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ceded the former Brukšanac (Bruckschanc) bridgehead to the city.

[1][2] For the purpose of building the new bridge, during 1923 the Brukšanac bridgehead, a small fortress built on the Novi Sad side, as well as the Novi Sad gate, which was located on the Petrovaradin side, were demolished and leveled.

Queen Maria of Yugoslavia awarded a chalice for liturgical communion to the Franciscan monastery of Saint George in Petrovaradin, as the closest Christian religious building to the bridge.

[1][2] In the Second World War, by the orders of the Military-Technical Services of the Novi Sad Military Region and Captain Svetozar Popov, the bridge was destroyed on 11 April 1941 by Yugoslav army to slow down the German advances to the south.