Trift Canal (Munich)
The Trift Canal was a canal built for the Holztrift in Munich . Like the Munich city streams , it got its water from the Isar , into which it finally flowed back again.
history
The Trift Canal was built at the beginning of the 17th century to supply the ducal court with firewood. In 1606 it was put into operation. The wood was felled upstream in the forests and then thrown into the Isar or Loisach . In Munich, the wood was on Cancel collected and drawn into the drift channel. There it was directed to the wooden garden, which took up the area bounded by Liebigstraße, Oettingenstraße, Seeaustraße, Lerchenfeldstraße and Wagmüllerstraße, where the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bavarian National Museum are located today .
In the wooden garden there were several fields, separated by dams, into which the wood was driven by the water and from which the water was then drained. There the wood was dried and stored. Part of it covered the farm's own needs, the rest was sold to the citizens.
The Trift Canal was only fully flooded at the time of the Holztrift, otherwise it carried less water.
In 1870 the wood drift was discontinued, since the transport of the wood could now be cheaper and safer by rail. In order to keep the possibility of the Holztrift open, the Trift Canal remained in operation until 1881, when it was closed and filled.
course
The drift channel is above the Abrechens discharged from the Isar, now corresponding to a location approximately midway between the Marianne bridge and the Prater military bridge . There was a second diversion directly at the Prater weir. From there, the Trift Canal ran roughly north to Tierschplatz, then followed today's streets Triftstrasse and Wagmüllerstrasse and flowed into the Eisbach shortly after Prinzregentenstrasse.
Branches
Trift Canal foothills
The Trift Canal had several branches through which water was taken from it and fed back to other city streams or to itself. They were also known as the foothills of the Trift Canal. These included the Gewürzmühlkanal , the Hat factory channel and the Stone saw channel .
The Holzgarten Canal was not a direct extension of the Trift Canal, but it received its water indirectly from it. It was fed from five outlets, through which the water was drained from the fields of the wooden garden after the wood had been washed into them with the water from the Trift Canal. Also theThe Vienna Canal was used to drain the wooden garden.
City streams
Immediately after the beginning of the Trift Canal, two city streams were diverted from it, the Hofhammerschmiedbach and the Feuerbächl.
The Hofhammerschmiedbach , also called Hofsägmühlbach, ran roughly along Reitmorstraße and flowed back into the Isar at the height of Paradiesstraße. It was originally a natural tributary of the Isar and was probably only channeled in the 17th century for the court hammer smithy established in 1680. Further down was the Hofsägmühle, so that the stream was also called Hofsägmühlbach. The stream was abandoned in 1928, but its bed was not filled until 1955.
The Feuerbächl initially flowed roughly along Sternstrasse and originally flowed into the Vienna Canal. With this it flowed at the height of the Prinzregentenstrasse under the Hofhammerschmiedbach into the Isar. After the Trift Canal and the Vienna Canal were closed, the Feuerbächl was diverted from the Hofhammerschmiedbach and flowed back into it at Prinzregentenstrasse. It was closed in 1899.
Remarks
- ↑ This section of today's Eisbach between the Eisbach Bridge and the confluence of the Eisbach and Schwabinger Bach rivers was called Schwabinger Bach until 1945.
literature
- Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich city streams . Ed .: City Archives Munich. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9809147-2-0 .
- Franz Schiermeier: Munich city streams. Travel guide to the lifelines of a city . Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813190-9-5 .
