Döblinger Bach
The Döblinger Bach was a brook in the area of today's 9th and 19th districts of Alsergrund and Döbling , which has now completely disappeared from Vienna's topography .
Hydrography and History
The catchment area of the Döblinger Bach originally lay between that of the Als or Währinger Bach and the Krottenbach . Its headwaters are likely to have been in what is now the Cottage district . From the cottage the brook flowed to the Währinger Spitz (triangular area between Billrothstrasse and the confluent Gymnasiumstrasse) and followed Billrothstrasse to today's Wiener Gürtel . There the Döblinger Bach branched off through Devrient- or Glatzgasse and essentially followed Augasse and Althanstraße, but already in the area of today's Althanstraße university center . In the area of today's Tepsergasse, the Döblinger Bach finally flowed into the Danube Canal . In front of the confluence, a side arm may have flowed into the Döblinger Bach until the early 19th century , as a city map from 1806 shows.
The Döblinger Bach as a brook canal
What is striking about the Döblinger Bach is its early disappearance and its transformation into a brook canal . The upper course was separated from the lower course before 1850 and diverted towards the Danube Canal. It disappeared south of what was then the machine house of the Kaiser-Ferdinand's water pipeline , which was partially in operation in 1841 , but without reaching the receiving water . However, it is unclear whether the diverted stream in the gravel of the Spittelau dried up or was used to operate the machine house. The lower reaches, however, were vaulted and canalized shortly before 1850. On a city map from 1850, the so-called Schmiedgrabenstrasse is already drawn in place of the channel. Althanstrasse used to be called Schmiedgasse just like Porzellangasse, which may have led to the name of the former lower course of the Döblinger Bach in Schmiedgraben. The former course of the brook was later also reflected in the course of the Viennese canal network . The Wolfsgrabensammler built before 1890 essentially follows the route of the upper course, while the Währinger Bach relief, completed in 1911, uses the former lower course of the Döblinger Bach.
literature
- Christian Gantner: From the brook to the brook canal. , Magistrat der Stadt Wien / MA30, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-200-00259-X
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 12 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 56 ″ E