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place Höllental , Schwarzau in the mountains
Client City vienna
Construction year 1894
Coordinates 47 ° 46 '22.4 "  N , 15 ° 44' 3.95"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '22.4 "  N , 15 ° 44' 3.95"  E
Fuchspaßquelle (Lower Austria)
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particularities
Spring cave (1854/310)
Site plan of the Vienna high spring pipelines (Fuchspaßquelle lower center)

Site plan of the Vienna high spring pipelines
(Fuchspaßquelle lower center)

The Fuchspaßquelle (older also Singerinquelle ) is a spring on the Schneeberg in Lower Austria , which was taken for the 1st Vienna high spring water pipeline .

location

The source is located at the upper entrance of the Höllental , the Rax - Schneeberg - breakthrough of the Schwarza , about 5 km down from Schwarzau in the mountains . It is located near the village of Höllental , opposite the Nassbach estuary (near Singerin ), at the foot of the Kuhschneeberg .

history

The Fuchspaßquelle is conveniently located between the Höllentalquellen and the Naßwald - Wasseralm area , two areas that were planned from the start as the main sources of the high spring pipeline built in the 1860s and opened in 1873. However, through the Reich Water Act of 1869 and the Lower Austrian State Water Act of 1870, the legal position of all those lying below, plant owners and municipalities, was significantly improved. Therefore, the City of Vienna had to fight their respective water law applications through all instances up to the Administrative Court, which took around 20 years. The spring was not connected to the water supply system until the 1890s. Due to bottlenecks, it was initiated for the first time in the winter of 1893/94 shortly before the main work was completed.

Hydrology, construction and water protection

The source is part of a fault that strikes northeast through the Nassbachtal over the Kuhschneeberg to Klostertaler Gscheid , and limits the Wetterstein limestone of the Rax-Schneeberg group to the north. (The Naßwald springs near Hinternaßwald also belong to this disturbance ). The Fuchspaßquelle itself rises from the Zlambacher layer boundary to Hallstatt layers . It comes from a system of  fissures and caves that can be traced far into the mountain (the spring cave was mapped in 2004 with a length of 6 m and has the cadastral number 1854/310). The catchment area could overlap with that of the Kaiserbrunn spring.

Collecting and transfer tunnels were dug for the source and a water tower was built. The spring consisted of a main spring and several small springs below. The latter could be built over directly with the well house, whereby when blasting the main source was cut and introduced immediately. The old main outlet, which still pours when the water is strong, is led around to the left (looking up to the source) to the fountain house. A hold-up chamber there also diverts spring floods directly to the Schwarza. The concrete foundations of the moated castle reach about 4½ m to the natural rock and prevent the spring from looking for a new course. The connection to the high spring pipeline from Naßwald, which runs on the other bank, passes under the Schwarza to the south with a culvert .

The Fuchspaßquelle pours around 30–700 liters per second, that is 2,500–60,000 cubic meters per day, that could make up a maximum of one third of the total output of the I. Hochspellleitung, but the water supply fluctuates greatly. Unlike the other springs in the upper Schwarzatal, it is located on the sunny side and reacts quickly, so even in winter, after a few sunny days, it often provides a lot of water. The temperature is relatively constant 6.1–6.2 ° C. The water hardness is 8.8 ° dH, well above the average of 7.3 for the entire pipe.

The large Rax – Schneeberg – Schneealpe water reserve has existed here since 1965 , and there is a strict water protection area within 500 meters . The grounds around the spring belong to the City of Vienna to an extent of 105.5 hectares. The water protection is entrusted by the Vienna MA 31 (Vienna Water) and MA 49 (Forestry Office) . In addition, there is the European Protected Area Northeastern Randalpen: Hohe Wand – Schneeberg – Rax , a fauna-flora-habitat area with an ecological focus, and the extensive Rax – Schneeberg landscape protection area .

literature

  • [City of Vienna:] The water supply as well as the systems of the municipal electricity works, the Vienna river regulation, the main collecting canals, the city railway and the regulation of the Danube canal in Vienna. On behalf of the Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger edited by the municipal building authority, self-published by the Vienna City Council, Vienna 1901, especially the version of the Fuchspass spring. P. 54 ff ( archive.org , in the pdf P. 61 f; Plate II there P. 57/58).
  • Hermann Stadler, Ralf Benischke, Elmar Strobl: Hydrogeology Schneeberg / Rax. Final report. Study by the Institute for Water Resource Management Hydrogeology and Geophysics, on behalf of the City of Vienna MA31 (as part of KATER  II), Graz, March 2008, esp. 3.1.7.1. Fuchspassquelle (SRFP) , p. 17 (hydrogeological assessment); 4.3.3. Fuchspassquelle , p. 59 ff (source characterization); 4.10.4. Fuchspassquelle , p. 149 ff (detailed investigations); 4.11.2. Fuchspassquelle , p. 162 (catchment areas; article pdf , on ccwaters.eu, accessed May 7, 2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So also the entry in the Lower Austrian water book: Fuchspaßquelle or Singerinquelle NK-001000
  2. ^ Lit. The water supply ... 1901, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Lit. Stadler, Benischke, Strobl: 2008, 3.1.6. Interpretation of the hydrogeological conditions, p. 17.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f lit. The water supply ... 1901, p. 54 ff.
  5. ^ A b Ferdinand Lettmayer: Vienna around the middle of the XX. Century: a cross-section through landscape, history, social and technical facilities, economic and political position and through cultural life. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1958, p. 575 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Hartmann: Regional Association for Speleology in Vienna and Lower Austria. In: Annual reports 2004 of the speleological organizations in Austria. In: The cave. Volume 56, issue 1–4 / 2005, p. 107 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  7. ↑ Lit. Stadler, Benischke, Strobl: 2008, p. 163.
  8. ↑ Fuchspassquelle in Höllental. Photo, Karl Möhsl, 1894, in Bildarchiv Austria .
  9. ↑ Lit. The water supply… 1901, p. 35 u. 50.
  10. ^ Alfred Drennig, Municipality of Vienna: The 1st Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline. Festschrift, Verlag Jugend & Volk, 1973, p. 61.
  11. ↑ a b c Andreas Thurner: Hydrogeology. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-7594-1 , table p. 249 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ↑ Lit. The water supply ... 1901, p. 125.