Kaunitzgasse steam power station
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 11 '47 " N , 16 ° 21' 13" E | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| power | 1.95 megawatts (1910) | ||
| owner | Wiener Elektrizitätsgesellschaft W. E. G. (until 1907) Municipality of Vienna - Municipal Electricity Company (from 1907) |
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| Project start | 1887 | ||
| Start of operations | 1890 | ||
The Kaunitzgasse steam power plant in Vienna's 6th district, Mariahilf, was a privately run electricity company .
The Kaunitzgasse steam power plant was owned by Wiener Elektrizitätsgesellschaft W. E. G., a stock corporation founded by manufacturers and other interested parties after Richard Engländer and the two manufacturers Karl Leistler and Johann Kremenitzky applied for the concession to build an electrical central station in 1887.
On January 1, 1890, electricity production began in a former parquet factory . In addition to the power station itself, initially only the Theater an der Wien was supplied. It was not until May 1st of the same year that other subscribers were also supplied with electricity.
Originally, the steam power plant in Kaunitzgasse only had a steam engine with an output of 60 hp (equivalent to 44 kW) and two generators to generate 2 × 110 volts direct current. In 1910, seven steam engines with 2650 hp (equivalent to 1.95 MW ) reached the maximum capacity of the power plant. In 1895 an accumulator with a capacity of 2045 ampere-hours was installed in the neighboring house at Kaunitzgasse 6 to cover the peak load .
On April 19, 1907, at an extraordinary general assembly, an agreement concluded between the Municipality of Vienna - Städtisches Elektrizitätswerk and the Wiener Elektrizitätsgesellschaft , which concerned the redemption and takeover of the systems and properties by the City of Vienna, was approved. Furthermore, the dissolution and liquidation of the Wiener Elektrizitätsgesellschaft was decided. The plant was handed over to the municipality of Vienna on May 1, 1907. At that time, around 4500 customers in the districts of Mariahilf and Neubau as well as parts of the inner city , the Wieden and von Margareten were supplied with electrical energy via a 53-kilometer network .
Todays use
Due to technical obsolescence property located in the residential area Dampfkraftwerk Kaunitzgasse was shut down and in a substation of the power mains Vienna rebuilt. Part of the Kaunitzgasse substation is a listed building . As of 2010, the electrical system consists of three power transformers of 40 MVA each, which transform the voltage at the distribution network level from 110 kV to a total of 37 strings of the medium-voltage network with 10 kV, thus ensuring the supply of the surrounding urban areas. Due to the age of the high-voltage cables , some of which date from the mid-20th century, the medium voltage in this region is only 10 kV instead of the usual 20 kV. Due to the limited space, the system is designed in the form of a gas-insulated switchgear with a completely encapsulated construction.
literature
- Wiener Heimatbuch: Mariahilf - once and now , Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna, 1926
- Festschrift for the fifty-year existence of the city's own electricity works, April 8, 1952 , Wiener Stadtwerke - Elektrizitätswerke, Vienna
- Hubert Mader: Wiener Stadtwerke - Elektrizitätswerke, 75 years of city-owned power supply , Bohmann Verlag AG, Vienna, 1977, ISBN 3-7002-0439-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wien Energie Stromnetz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 676 kB), accessed on November 18, 2011
