Fugger's water pumping station

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View of the Fugger water pumping station in Kirchheim

The princely Fugger water pumping station is located in the municipality of Kirchheim in Swabia , in the district of Unterallgäu , Bavaria . It is a listed building and was built in 1563. It is located at the southern end of the Schlossberg on the Flossach River . Under Hans Fugger it was repaired in 1583 and redesigned in the 18th century.

It consists of a square building with two storeys in the south and one storey on the north slope side. It is covered with a tent roof over a carnies cornice . The extension on the west side is more recent. The interior consists of a large room with a brick lance cap barrel from the 16th century. The large bucket wheel was formerly located in this, but was replaced by a modern pumping station . Two memorial plaques are attached to the modern central pillar. One plaque is made of limestone and bears the inscription Ex imis restauratum opus / ab / Illstma. SRI Committee DD Cajetano / Ioseph. Fugger Com. de Kirchberg / et Weißenhorn Illstmo. Regents in Kirchheim. / Operant D. Francisco Houard Machinatore / origine Gallo. / MDCCXXXVIII. The second plaque contains the inscription Maiorum vestigia persecuts / Illstmus. DD Carolus Ernestus / ex Comitibus Fugger, Dominus in / Gloett et Kirchheim et Oberndorf / has aquas nostrae excultioris aetatis arti- / bus usus restauravit et opere electrico / auxit curantibus IM Voith in Heidenheim / machinatore et Societate generali / operibus elctricis instituendis Mona- / censi MCMI. The roof structure from the 18th century is a radially constructed collar beam roof with a lying chair.

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 189 .
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 589 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-158-18

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 30 ″  E