Mödling aqueduct

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Mödling aqueduct

The Mödling aqueduct is a listed building belonging to the Viennese water supply in the course of the 1st Viennese high spring water pipeline in Mödling ( Lower Austria ).

description

The Mödling aqueduct, begun in 1870 and completed on November 14, 1872, is a 190 meter (100 Viennese fathom) long valley crossing over the Mödlingbach and part of the city itself. The clear height is around 24 meters and the greatest total height is around 28 meters.

The valley is spanned with seven arches, each with a span of around 17 meters , with the outermost arches leaning directly against the rock faces. At both ends of the aqueduct the water pipe tunnels of the first high spring water pipe are directly connected.

General renovation between 1999 and 2004

Between 1999 and 2004 the Mödling aqueduct was completely  renovated according to a method developed in consultation with the Federal Monuments Office by MA 31 - Wiener Wasserwerke. After the vault was repaired, the damaged masonry was separated from the aqueduct with a diamond wire on the outside to a thickness of around 15 centimeters and replaced by a newly built facing masonry made of frost-resistant clinker bricks in the old Viennese format.

The Speising aqueduct in Liesing was also renovated using the same method by October 2006 .

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. - archive.org .
  • Carl Mihatsch (Ed.): The construction of the Viennese Emperor Franz Josef Hochquellen-Wasserleitung. Represented in 57 plates . Self-published, Vienna 1881, OVB .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=%2F2006%2F1019%2F006.html
  2. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) The keystone for the water pipeline buildings (...). In:  Die Presse , Abendblatt, No. 316/1872 (XXV. Volume), November 16, 1872, p. 4, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr.
  3. ^ Stadler: The water supply of the city of Vienna. P. 247.

Remarks

  1. ^ Stadler in The Water Supply of the City of Vienna. P. 247 mentions a (total) height of 12 fathoms (22.8 m).

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 1 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 45.6 ″  E