Danube Canal pipe bridge

The pipe bridge in 2004

The Danube Canal pipe bridge was a provisional bridge of Heizbetriebe Wien for district heating lines over the Danube Canal in Vienna . It connected the districts of Leopoldstadt and Landstrasse .

location

The bridge was located between Herrmannpark and Tempelgasse, a little south of the planned but unrealized Urania bridge .

1981-2005

The new building of the Reichsbrücke was used to supply the districts east of the Danube with district heating. This also required a two-kilometer line between the Kleiner Marxerbrücke and Mexikoplatz . A pipe bridge was therefore built over the Danube Canal in the summer of 1981. Injection piles were necessary to protect two houses in Tempelgasse. The bridge was purely a temporary measure, as the lines were later to be relocated to the planned Urania bridge.

The bridge was a 80 meter long steel structure with a width of 3.20 meters. It contained two pipes, each 60 centimeters in diameter, as well as a bar that was used to control the lines. However, since the Urania bridge could not be built, the district heating pipes were laid under the Danube Canal. In the course of the demolition work in February 2005, however, the pipe bridge fell into the Danube Canal.

literature

• The Administration of the City of Vienna , p. 252, Vienna 1981
• Rudolf Gerlich: Wiener Brücken , Verlag Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1982
• Irene Wernicke: Bridges over the Danube Canal in the 3rd district , in: Bezirksmuseum Landstraße Nachrichten 2005/3, p. 4

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 44 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 7 ″  E