Liesing aqueduct

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Liesing aqueduct with access house in the duct, view towards Sauberg

The Liesing aqueduct is a listed building of the Vienna water supply in the course of the 1st Viennese high spring water pipeline in the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing . It runs across the valley of the river of the same name .

history

The aqueduct, which is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict , crosses the Liesing over a length of around 745 or 785 meters as well as several streets running parallel to it, including the Breitenfurter Straße in the area of ​​the Upper and Lower Aqueduct Street, which takes its name refer to this building.

A small part of the valley crossing, which is still located in the local area of Perchtoldsdorf in Lower Austria , was built by the London-based construction company Antonio Gabrielli under the construction management of the Vienna City Building Office between 1870 and 1873 using non-frost-resistant bricks. Moisture and temperature changes affected the bricks in such a way that the building is currently partially secured with steel grids to prevent larger parts of the wall from falling down.

As building material, ashlar and quarry stones and bricks were used.

The vault of the duct was built from conical shaped bricks. The top of the duct was covered with quarry stone paving, which was bordered on the sides of the aqueduct by cornice blocks. Later, an asphalt coating to which Boschin - a paint made of asphalt and rubber - was added was applied as additional weather protection . Boschin's job was to keep the asphalt elastic and prevent cracks from forming.

literature

  • Rudolph Stadler: 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 . Publisher of the Vienna City Council, Vienna, 1873.
  • Carl Mihatsch: The construction of the Viennese Emperor Franz Josefs high spring water pipe . Self-published, Vienna, 1881.
  • Technical guide through Vienna . published by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, edited by Paul Martin. Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1910.
  • DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .
  • Paul Katzberger, Marktgemeinde Perchtoldsdorf (ed.): Historicism, Art Nouveau and New Objectivity in Perchtoldsorf , Verlag der Marktgemeinde Perchtoldsdorf, Perchtoldsdorf 2001, ISBN, p. 458ff.

Web links

Commons : Liesing Aqueduct  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liesing aqueduct , wien.gv.at
  2. ↑ Technical Guide 1910
  3. ↑ Dehio
  4. ^ Boschin . In: Lueger: Lexicon of the entire technology. (zeno.org)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 18 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 25 ″  E