Baden aqueduct

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Aqueduct in Baden near Vienna
View of Baden with the aqueduct

The Baden aqueduct is a listed building of the Vienna water supply in the course of the 1st Vienna high spring water pipeline in Baden near Vienna in Lower Austria .

history

The aqueduct and the inlet and outlet canal were planned by chief engineer Karl Junker (1827–1882) and built from 1870 onwards. Already on October 29th of the year a delegation of the Vienna City Council led by Mayor Cajetan Felder (1814-1894) and accompanied by test engineer Gustav Wex (1811-1892) was able to join in the presence of Junker and Eduard Melkus (1841-1920), Viennese water supply -Commission in Mödling, convince of the advanced building process. The aqueduct was completed in October 1872. It crosses the Schwechat over a length of about 788 meters at the eastern end of the Helenental . The building is composed of

  • 7 arch positions with full circular arcs and each around 1.9 meters span and
  • 10 arch positions, each with a span of around 3.8 meters, hidden in the embankment.

Are visible from this valley crossing

  • 5 arch positions with each around 9.5 meters span,
  • 14 arch positions each with a span of around 11 meters,
  • 8 arch positions each with a span of around 13 meters,
  • 6 arch positions each with a span of around 15 meters,
  • 9 arch positions each with a span of around 13.6 meters,
  • 1 arch position with each around 16 meters span and
  • 1 bow position with around 1.9 meters span.

The clear height of the aqueduct above the Schwechat is around 23 meters with a total height of around 28 meters.

At the meeting of December 3, 1872, the Vienna City Council rejected the request of the city of Baden to build a promenade on the aqueduct and did not comply with the request for water from the spring pipe .

literature

  • Rudolf Stadler (edit.): The water supply of the city of Vienna in its past and present. Memorandum for the opening of the high-spring water pipeline in 1873 . Self-published by the Vienna City Council, Vienna 1873, p. 247. - Online .
  • Carl Mihatsch (Ed.): The construction of the Viennese Emperor Franz Josef Hochquellen-Wasserleitung, shown in 57 panels . Self-published, Vienna 1881, OBV .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sima: General renovation of the Speising aqueduct completed. Investment of 2.4 million euros to secure the sustainable supply of drinking water in Vienna . In: wien.gv.at , October 19, 2006, accessed on August 18, 2013.
  2. ↑ Wiener Hochquellen-Wasserleirung. (...) The author of the project and the site manager (...). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 248/1873, October 24, 1873, p. 296, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  3. ^ Josef Gall :  The councilor at the water pipe. In:  Neues Fremd-Blatt , Morgenblatt, 1st supplement, No. 302/1870 (VI. Year), November 1, 1870, p. 9 f. (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfb.
  4. ↑ Hochquellenleitung. In:  Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , No. 282/1872 (XXV. Year), October 13, 1872, p. 18, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  5. ^ Vienna City Council. In:  Local-Anzeiger der "Presse" , No. 334/1872 (XXV. Year), December 4, 1872, p. 11, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.

Web links

Commons : Aqueduct Baden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 23 "  N , 16 ° 12 ′ 49"  E