Brigittenau gasometer


Brigittenau gasometer
Brigittenau gasometer in 1982 (top left in the picture)
Location data
State :	Austria
Region :	Lower Austria
City :	Vienna
Construction data
Construction:	1909-1911
Business:	December 11, 1911
Cancellation:	1985
Technical specifications
Construction:	five-stroke telescopic gas container
Height :	71 m
Diameter :	74 m
Usable volume :	250,000 m³

The Brigittenau gasometer at Forsthausgasse 11 (today: Straßengeviert Forsthausgasse / Hopsagasse ) in Vienna's 20th district of Brigittenau was a gas tank for the Vienna Gas Works.

history

Since all English-owned Viennese gasworks would be demolished or transferred to the municipality of Vienna at the end of 1911, there was a corresponding need for construction and renovation of urban gas systems.

The Brigittenau gasometer was built from 1909 to 1911 together with the Leopoldau gas works , from which it was fed by a pipeline that ran over the Kaiser-Franz-Josefsbrücke bridge at the time , by the German company that had also constructed the gasometer in Simmering. In contrast to the other gasometers in Vienna at that time, this one was built without a decorative and protective brick facade. The building was originally intended as a Heiligenstadt gas container in the 19th district of Vienna on Hagenwiese (today: Kreilplatz ), but the project was averted by political intervention. In August 1909, the municipality of Vienna acquired the Brigittenau building plot (10,000 m²) from the Allgemeine Österreichische Baugesellschaft .

On August 4, 1911, during a test carried out with compressed air, the gas container collapsed after this test had already been carried out correctly twice. This time, however, a steel plate detached itself from the canister so that the compressed air could escape quickly. As a result of the rapid collapse, the telescopic gas container tipped over and was badly damaged. Since the workers were able to get to safety in time, nobody was harmed.

After the repair work, the gas tank was put into operation on December 11, 1911.

In 1953 the roof of the gas tank had to be renovated due to corrosion damage. During this time, the other eleven gas containers located in Vienna had to take over the task of the Brigittenau gasometer. Around 63 million liters of water were pumped out of the sealing basin over a period of 15 days, taking into account the fish population in the Danube Canal.

In 1985 the Brigittenau gasometer was canceled.

Data

Brigittenau gasometer: technical data
Capacity : 250,000 cubic meters
Component	Height (meters)	Diameter (meter)
Water basin	11,850	85,000
Lifting parts
Bell jar	11,050	77,400
1. Lifting part	10,900	78.280
2. Lifting part	10,400	79.460
3. Lifting part	10,500	80.040
4. Lifting part	10,900	80.920
Guide frame
Guide frame	60.295

With its capacity, the five-stroke telescope gasometer was the largest gasometer on the European continent when it was built.

literature

Felix Czeike : Brigittenau gas tank in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna , accessed on September 11, 2016.
Brigittenau home. Published by the study group of teachers of the XX. District . Self-published by the working group of teachers of the XX. District, Vienna 1920, OBV .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Czeike: Brigittenau gas container
↑ Appeal to all gas and chemical industries! Due to the demolition of the Vienna English gas works (...). In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 354/1911 (XLV. Volume), December 24, 1911, p. 134, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
^ Vienna affairs. (...) Decommissioning of the English gas works. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 357/1911 (XLV. Volume), December 29, 1911, p. 6 (bottom right) f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
^ Vienna affairs. From the town hall. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 175/1909 (XLV. Volume), June 27, 1909, p. 8, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
↑ ^a ^b daily report. (...) Collapse of the new gasometer in Brigittenau. During testing. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 213/1911 (XLIII. Year), August 5, 1911, p. 6 (center right) f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
↑ Work in the air. A new blanket for the Brigittenau gasometer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 21, 1953, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
↑ Brigittenau home .
^ The municipal gas works Leopoldau . (August) Chwala ’s Dr (uck), Vienna 1911, OBV .

48.245555555556 16.372694444444Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 44 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 21.7" E

[Czeike-1] Czeike: Brigittenau gas container

[2] Appeal to all gas and chemical industries! Due to the demolition of the Vienna English gas works (...). In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 354/1911 (XLV. Volume), December 24, 1911, p. 134, top center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.

[3] Vienna affairs. (...) Decommissioning of the English gas works. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 357/1911 (XLV. Volume), December 29, 1911, p. 6 (bottom right) f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.

[4] Vienna affairs. From the town hall. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 175/1909 (XLV. Volume), June 27, 1909, p. 8, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.

[nwg|05|08|1911|06-5] daily report. (...) Collapse of the new gasometer in Brigittenau. During testing. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 213/1911 (XLIII. Year), August 5, 1911, p. 6 (center right) f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.

[6] Work in the air. A new blanket for the Brigittenau gasometer . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 21, 1953, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[7] Brigittenau home .

[8] The municipal gas works Leopoldau . (August) Chwala ’s Dr (uck), Vienna 1911, OBV .