Mödling gasworks
The Mödling gasworks was a privately run gasworks that was actually located in Maria Enzersdorf in Lower Austria.
In Maria Enzersdorf on the corner of Hauptstrasse-Leebgasse there was a gas works that was built in 1874. It had the conscription number 133, which means that it was the 133rd building in town.
In 1874, the civil engineer Georg Brock (1840–1885) from Nuremberg concluded with Josef Schöffel , the then mayor of Mödling . a supply contract under which he was allowed to supply the city with coal gas for 25 years . On the basis of these supply contracts, the Brock-Bächle & Lenz company was founded in 1875 and on May 4, 1875, the Baden district administration (the Mödling district only existed from 1896) granted the gas production concession. Maria Enzersdorf also signed such a supply contract.
While the gas was initially used for street lighting, private houses were soon connected to the gas network. It became a sensitive financial burden for the municipalities, since the supply contracts stipulated that the municipality had to pay for the maintenance and expansion of the pipeline networks. It was not until 1899, when the supply contracts expired, that more favorable conditions for the communities could be negotiated.
Due to the increasing demand, the Brock-Bächle & Lenz company also acquired the neighboring properties between 1886 and 1892 and expanded the facilities.
In the years to come, the gas works , as it was called, changed hands several times. In 1909, the United Gas Works in Augsburg were the owners. With renewed contract improvements for customers, sales were also increased.
In 1911 the gasworks was taken over by the General Austro-Hungarian Gas Company Triest . Since the takeover by this company, with which the city of Mödling concluded a supply contract until 1963, the gasworks has been called Gaswerk Mödling .
At the end of the First World War , on October 15, 1918, operations had to be stopped due to a lack of coal.
In 1927 the owner was loud Land Registry the Mödlinger Gas AG . In 1927 Mödlinger Gaswerk AG was bought by the Gesellschaft für Gasindustrie in Augsburg .
When the Mödling district of Greater Vienna was added in 1938, the Mödling gasworks also became the property of the Wiener Gaswerke in mid-1942 . Legally, however, the handover was a long process. If the purchase contract was concluded in 1942, it was not carried out in the land registry until 1947.
While the Mödling district was finally spun off from Greater Vienna in 1954 and the old contracts from before 1938 were valid, the gasworks did not finally become the property of the Wiener Gaswerke until 1957. They also took over the public pipeline networks of the previous customers and concluded new supply contracts over 50 years.
However, gas generation at the Mödling gasworks was soon first reduced and then completely stopped. The site was used by the municipal utilities as a warehouse and base for many years, but was eventually sold.
Today only the gasworks bus stop reminds of the gasworks .
Another gasworks nearby was the Wiener Neudorf gasworks (at Hauptstrasse 65), which did not go into operation until 1908.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Culture magazine: mediliha , edition 8/2012
- ↑ Due to a lack of coal, the Mödling gasworks and other gasworks in the industrial district are closed on the history of Lower Austria - regional studies accessed on September 28, 2013
- ^ Gesellschaft für Gasindustrie in Augsburg , accessed on September 28, 2013.
- ^ Municipal gas works in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna accessed on February 28, 2019
- ↑ Wiener Neudorf Aktuell ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB) Edition September 2006, p. 4, accessed on January 17, 2013.
Web links
- Maria Enzersdorfer Rundschau Issue 2/2002 Article: The light in houses and streets (PDF file; 1.27 MB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 59.3 ″ E