This is a road bridge over the Nemunas on the Lithuanian–Russian border, between the towns of Panemunė and Tilsit. It is 416.3 m long and named after Queen Louise of Prussia. It belongs to the Russian Federation. The opening of the bridge coincided with the centenary of Louise's visit to Tilsit, which is why it was named after her. Connecting two regions of East Prussia with the Queen Louise Bridge spurred economic growth, but this did not last long, as the First World War soon broke out. To prevent the Russian army from invading East Prussia from the north, it was decided to blow up the bridge, and only the efforts of the town's mayor saved it. The Russians entered Tilsit anyway and, as they retreated, wanted to blow up the bridge, but German soldiers led by Hauptmann Fletcher prevented them. On 24 October 1944 the bridge was blown up by sappers of the retreating Wehrmacht's 6th Panzer Division, and all its metal structures fell into the Nemunas. In July 1947 a wooden bridge was rebuilt on the old piers, which had been re-concreted and reinforced, and in 1965 it was given a reinforced-concrete deck. After Lithuania regained its independence, it once again became a state border crossing point, with customs terminals at both ends of the bridge. The European Union also gave it the name 'Bridge of Peace', as an inscription on a stone in Russian, English and Lithuanian on the bank belonging to the Russian Federation tells.