Wienerberg gasometer
| Wienerberg gasometer | |
| Location data | |
| State : | Austria |
| Region : | Lower Austria |
| City : | Vienna |
| Construction data | |
| Construction: | 1883-1884 |
| Cancellation: | 1987 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Type: | Dry gas container |
| Construction: | Disk gas container |
| Mass of the gas pressure disc without concrete ballast: | 500 t |
| Height : | 104 m |
| Diameter : | 67.5 m |
| Usable volume : | 300,000 m³ |
| Base area : | 24-square m² |
The Wienerberg gasometer in the 10th district of Favoriten was the penultimate gas container of this type built by the City of Vienna . It was only followed by Gasometer VI on the premises of the Simmering gas works.
Location
The Wienerberg gasometer was built on the area at the Wienerbergstrasse- Eibesbrunnergasse intersection of the Wienerberg gasworks built between 1883 and 1884 by the Wiener Gasindustrie Aktiengesellschaft founded on February 18, 1872 . After the expiry of the last lighting contract between the Imperial Continental Gas Association and the City of Vienna, this gas works was the last privately run gas works in Vienna. From 1912 onwards, only communities outside Vienna in the area of the southern railway line were supplied . On January 1, 1940, Wiener Gasindustrie Aktiengesellschaft and its gas works on Wienerberg , Wiener Neudorf and Traiskirchen were taken over by the municipality of Vienna. It is not known when the shutdown took place.
history
The construction of the gas tank was granted on January 2, 1957, and the contract for the construction was awarded on May 23, 1958. From spring 1959, VÖEST built the gas tank together with 96 other companies according to plans by MAN . The Wienerberg gasometer was opened on November 28, 1960. It was demolished in 1987.
technology
The gasometer was intended to secure the supply in the southern and western districts of the city of Vienna when gas consumption rose. The commissioning of the Wienerberg gasometer increased the storage space of the Wiener Gaswerke by around 25 percent.
Before the completion of the Wienerberg Gasometer, Wiener Gaswerke had a total storage volume of 1,150,000 cubic meters. 700,000 cubic meters of this was in the supply area of the Leopoldau gas works . With the construction of the new gasometer with a capacity of 300,000 cubic meters, the supply area of the Simmering gasworks also had almost the same storage capacity.
Technically, this gas container corresponded to the larger of the two on the premises of the Leopoldau gas works, which was around 32 years older.
The 104 meter high and 24-sided gasometer had an outside diameter of around 67.5 meters and was built as a disk or drying container, i.e. without a bell sealed by a water basin.
This type of container consisted of a cylinder made of 4.5 millimeter thick sheet steel, closed at the top, in which the stored gas was only kept under pressure by a steel plate weighing around 500 tons, which, depending on the amount of gas present, sits like a piston in this cylinder. and moved off. This steel plate was sealed against the outer wall by elastic seals. Any leaks that occurred in the process were sealed by oil on the moving steel plate. Oil overflowing was collected on the bottom of the gas container and pumped back onto the top of the disk.
The Wienerberg gasometer was connected to the existing medium pressure network as well as a newly laid medium pressure pipeline with a nominal diameter of 700 millimeters to a distribution node in what was then Sankt-Johann-Park in Margareten . In this way, gas stored on the Wienerberg could be directed both to the supply area south of Vienna to Traiskirchen and also in the west of Vienna to Hadersdorf-Weidlingau .
Three rotary compressors, each with a capacity of 5,500 cubic meters of gas per hour, and a further three rotary blowers, each with a capacity of 25,000 cubic meters of gas per hour, were installed to transport gas to the south.
An additional VHF antenna was installed on the roof of the Wienerberg gasometer for in-house communication .
Individual evidence
literature
- Rathaus-Korrespondenz, April 6, 1960, sheet 581: The new large gas container on the Wienerberg
- City hall correspondence, November 28, 1960, sheet 2305: Mayor Jonas put Wienerberger gas tanks into operation
- Robert Medek: 85 years Vienna-Simmering Municipal Gas Works - municipal gas supply since 1899, Wiener Stadtwerke-Gaswerke
Web links
- A gas storage facility as big as the Karlskirche . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 7, 1960, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- Warmth, comfort through the gas pipe . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 29, 1960, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- April 13, 1959: The Wienerberger gas tank is installed
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 13.2 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 20.6 ″ E