Petersbach (Schwechat)

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Petersbach
Petersbach in Siebenhirten

Petersbach in Siebenhirten

Data
location Lower Austria and Vienna , Austria
River system Schwechat
Drain over Schwechat  → Danube  → Black Sea
source in Perchtoldsdorf
48 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
muzzle in Maria-Lanzendorf in the Schwechat coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 40 ″  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 20 ″  E 48 ° 5 ′ 40 ″  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 20 ″  E

Catchment area 33.7 km²
Left tributaries Aubach
Right tributaries Schirgengraben

The Petersbach is a brook in Lower Austria and Vienna . He is a feeder of the Schwechat .

course

The Petersbach has a catchment area of 33.7 km². Its mean discharge (MQ) is 0.03 m³ / s. It has water all year round.

The stream rises near the Schwab spring in the market town of Perchtoldsdorf . Initially it runs underground in the area of ​​Wiener Gasse and Mühlgasse and drains the community's rainwater sewer system. From Anton-Wildgans-Gasse it initially flows above ground. An above-ground right feeder is the Schirgengraben . The Aubach as a feeder on the left, which used to feed the moat of Liesing Castle , now only runs underground.

After Perchtoldsdorf, the Peterbach flows over a length of 1650 m through the Siebenhirten part of the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing . Under the Kellerberggasse it is covered over a distance of 200 m. The Petersbachbrücke is a 3 m long and 12 m wide reinforced concrete road bridge over which the Bernhard-Billes-Gasse leads. There is a very high risk of flooding in Vienna. In the event of a hundred-year flood of the Petersbach, the infrastructure and the resident population are affected to a very high degree.

After Vienna, the stream reaches the Lower Austrian communities of Vösendorf , Hennersdorf and Leopoldsdorf . In the municipality of Maria-Lanzendorf , it finally flows into Schwechat on the left.

history

Map of the Petersbach near Siebenhirten around 1837
Dammed Petersbach at the Schellenhof brewery around 1900

The Schellenhof was an old noble residence on the Petersbach. It was first mentioned in a document around 1530. A brewery was established here in the early 19th century. The building complex was destroyed in a bomb attack during World War II. The Teufelsmühle in Siebenhirten was first mentioned in a document in 1590/1591, but was probably of older origin. A legend about a robber and murderer as a mill owner has been widespread since the 18th century, which formed the basis for the successful play Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberg by Karl Friedrich Hensler . A popular inn has stood on the site of the Teufelsmühle since the 18th century, which fell victim to a fire in 1903 and was then rebuilt. There were other mills at the Petersbach. In the 18th century, these included the market or hospital mill, the Tabor or hospital mill, the Scharr or Khern mill, the Neumühle, the Obere Spaichmühle and the Untere Spaichmühle in Perchtoldsdorf.

During the Second World War, regulation work began on the Petersbach in Vienna, which was discontinued in 1944. The roofing under the Kellerberggasse was built in 1950. The Petersbach Bridge on Bernhard-Billes-Gasse was built in 1959. In Perchtoldsdorf, work began on the sewer system from 1959 and the Petersbach was regulated. After a dam broke, flooding occurred in Maria-Lanzendorf at Whitsun 1991. A 200 m long section of the brook near Kellerberg in Siebenhirten was renatured in 2012 . In order to improve flood protection, the banks of the stream in Maria-Lanzendorf were cleared in 2016. The Parish Association Am Petersbach , created in 2019 and comprising the Roman Catholic parishes of Hennersdorf, Leopoldsdorf and Vösendorf, was named after the body of water .

Environmental situation

Shortly before crossing Triester Straße , the Petersbach was contaminated with mineral oil hydrocarbons and PAHs over a period of several decades from the operation of the former Vösendorf refinery . Oily industrial wastewater was discharged into former brick ponds . The brick ponds then drained into the Petersbach via a canal. Since 2009, the now as contaminated site N20 refinery Vösendorf in contaminated sites designated former location by a partial enclosure by sealing wall secured and ends the contamination of Peter Brook.

See also

literature

  • Julia Tanzer: Historical morphological changes in the southern Viennese Danube feeder 1755–2010 . Master thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2016, Chapter 5.4.1 Petersbach bei Siebenhirten , p. 94-97 ( boku.ac.at [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Petersbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Julia Tanzer: Historical morphological changes in the southern Viennese Danube feeder 1755-2010 . Master thesis. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2016, p. 94–95 ( boku.ac.at [PDF; accessed January 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ MA 45, review of the discharge capacity of various torrents in connection with flood protection. Activity report 2014. (PDF) City Audit Office Vienna, April 2014, p. 22 , accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Poor Petersbach . In: Green Perchtoldsdorf. The community magazine of the Greens . Autumn, 2015, p. 7 ( perchtoldsdorf.gruene.at [PDF; accessed on January 3, 2020]).
  4. ↑ List of areas of the river basins. Danube region from the Enns to the Leitha (=  contributions to the hydrography of Austria . No. 62 ). Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management: Department IV / 4 Water Management (HZB), Vienna December 2014, p. 117 ( bmnt.gv.at [PDF; accessed January 3, 2020]).
  5. ↑ creeks by district. Economy, Labor and Statistics (Municipal Department 23), Municipal Authority of the City of Vienna, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Bridge Information Vienna. Vienna Bridge Construction and Foundation Engineering (Municipal Department 29), Municipal Authority of the City of Vienna, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ MA 45, review of the discharge capacity of various torrents in connection with flood protection. Activity report 2014. (PDF) City Audit Office Vienna, April 2014, p. 8 , accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  8. ^ Ferdinand Opll : First mention of settlement names in the Vienna area . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-224-16004-7 , p. 56 .
  9. ^ Ferdinand Opll: Liesing. History of the 23rd district of Vienna and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8 , p. 38 .
  10. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Teufelsmühle. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 432 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ a b Stefan Pukl: Economic structural change in Perchtoldsdorf since the 18th century . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2014, p. 35 and 120 ( othes.univie.ac.at [PDF; accessed on January 3, 2020]).
  12. ^ Petersbach: Disaster floods in Greater Vienna. Association for the History of the City of Vienna, accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  13. ↑ From the chronicle of the community of Maria Lanzendorf from 1881. (PDF) Freiwillige Feuerwehr Maria Lanzendorf, p. 6 , accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Birgit Samer: Dispute about clear-cutting on Petersbach-Ufer. In: NÖN.at. March 25, 2016, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Parish Association Am Petersbach. Archdiocese of Vienna, accessed on January 3, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Secured contaminated site N20: Vösendorf refinery. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .