Speising aqueduct

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Speising aqueduct

The listed aqueduct Speising in the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing is the last such structure of the Viennese water supply before the Rosenhügel reservoir , the end point of the 1st Viennese spring water pipeline .

history

The aqueduct, which is around 197 meters long - 108 meters of which is freely visible - and 14 meters high and protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflicts , crosses Tullnertalgasse with seven arches. Despite its name, it is not located in Speising to the north , but in the Mauer district .

This valley crossing of the Rosenberggraben between Steinberg (256 m) and Rosenhügel (258 m) consists of 25 buried arches with a span of around 1.3 to 1.9 meters each and seven free-standing arches with a span of around nine meters.

This valley crossing was built between 1870 and 1873 by the London-based construction company Antonio Gabrielli under the construction management of the Vienna City Planning Office using non-frost-resistant bricks as well as blocks and rubble stones. Moisture and temperature changes affected the bricks in such a way that the structure was first used after a method developed by the Vienna waterworks and during the renovation of the Mödling aqueduct, which was also part of Vienna's first high spring pipeline between 1999 and 2004, at a cost of around 2.4 Million euros had to be renovated. This work was funded by the Vienna Old Town Conservation Fund .

In order to maintain the overall visual impression of a brick structure, around 88,000 frost-resistant clinker bricks in the so-called old Viennese format were used. The work was completed in October 2006 after a construction period of just over a year.

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 , Verlag des Wiener Gemeinderat, Vienna, 1873
  • Carl Mihatsch: The construction of the Vienna Emperor Franz Josefs-Hochquellen-Wasserleitung , 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 .

Web links

Commons : Aqueduct Speising  - 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. ↑ http://service.magwien.gv.at/mdb/gr/2006/gr-015-w-2006-11-22-066.htm
  3. ↑ Otto Lueger (editor): Lexicon of the whole technology and its auxiliary sciences, 2nd completely revised edition, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1904-

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 6.8 ″  E