Boden (Dornbirn)
Boden is a parcel in the Austrian city of Dornbirn in the state of Vorarlberg .
history
Until industrialization
The plot of land originally only had agricultural land. Boden shared a pasture with the Bürgle . There is said to have been a ( whetstone ) loop nearby (see: Whetstone production (Dornbirn) ) and some rocks were mined to a small extent on the opposite side of the Dornbirn Ach.
Construction of a factory building
In the middle of the 19th century there was a small tool grinding shop at the northern end of the plot. This site was acquired by the brothers Johann and Martin Rüf in 1865, who built a three-storey factory building with an attic for a spinning mill in 1866 . After Johann Rüf's death, Josef Andre Winder acquired the building, expanded it and completed it. In 1873 a mechanical weaving mill was set up in the building on the ground floor and a spinning mill on the upper floor. In 1882 an annex was added to the west side of the building (a hall with around 260 m²) for cotton processing. In 1886 the spinning mill was relocated to Josef Andre Winder's main plant in Eulental , the weaving mill remained in Boden. In 1902 the factory building burned down completely and was not rebuilt. To protect and secure the fire ruins, the upper brick floors were removed and the lowest sock (ground floor) and the hall were given a roof. In 1905 Josef Andre Winder's company went bankrupt. The remains of the building were taken over from bankruptcy by the Rüsch works in 1907 , including the intact turbines inside.
power supply
The energy supply of the factory building was covered in 1873 by water from the Bodenbach and a steam engine . In 1881 Josef Andre Winder acquired further water rights on the Dornbirner Ach and was able to guarantee the factory's energy needs from 1882 with two low-pressure turbines . The water intake is located a little above the road bridge over the Dornbirner Ach, which leads to Ebnit. The pipeline is about 550 meters long and has a diameter of 700 mm and was able to convert about 85 HP (63 kW ) of energy in the turbines at 600 liters per second and deliver it to the transmission system of the factory.
These turbines were preserved after the fire in the factory building in 1905 and were only used to drive locksmith machines when a locksmith's shop was set up here after the fire. From 1907, these turbines continued to be used by the Rüsch works for the energy supply of their operation in the smelter, and turbine test systems were installed here. With the adaptation of the existing building as a night club in 1993, the turbine was finally shut down. The utility water supply and drainage is still available.
Geography and traffic
Boden is part of the Hatlerdorf district in the southeast of the Dornbirn settlement area at 400 m above sea level. A. up to about 530 m above sea level. A. The plot is about 2.7 km as the crow flies from the city center of Dornbirn and is roughly rectangular in shape (about 200 meters long and 160 meters wide).
The parcel was and is sparsely populated, there are only two farms here, in addition to the factory building (today: Night Club Conrad Sohm ), of which the lower Bodenhof is no longer inhabited. The western side of the Boden plot is bordered by the Bodenbach, which was previously used to generate energy for the factory located here. The northern side of Boden lies on the Dornbirner Ach and Gütlestrasse. The Dornbirner Ach forms the northern and northeastern boundary of the Boden plot.
Line 47 of the Landbus Unterland (Dornbirn - Ebnit ) serves the Boden stop on Gütlestrasse .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Kalb: Dornbirn Lexikon , keyword: soil.
- ^ A b Barbara Motter, Barbara Grabherr-Schneider: Places - Factories - Stories, 188 historical industrial buildings in Vorarlberg , Haymon Verlag, Wirtschaftsarchiv Vorarlberg (ed.), Innsbruck / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7099-7097-3 , p 179.
- ↑ a b Richard Eberle: The company Josef Andre Winder in Dornbirn , Dornbirner Schriften, contributions to urban history, No. 39, Dornbirn 2011, ISBN 978-3-901900-28-0 , pp. 133 ff, 195.
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ' N , 9 ° 46' E