Gas works walkway

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The Gaswerksteg, seen from the Prater (2013)
View of the Gaswerksteg (2008)
Gaswerksteg (south end), plan for conversion into a pedestrian bridge (before 1906)
The Gaswerksteg when it is opened to pedestrian traffic (1910)

The Gaswerksteg (formerly also: Gasrohrsteg and Gassteg ) crosses the Danube Canal in Vienna and connects the districts of Landstrasse and Leopoldstadt .

location

The Gaswerksteg is close to the Erdberg underground station . The extension over the tracks of the depot was built in 1988.

history

Between July 25, 1898 and July 16, 1899 the gasworks footbridge with a span of 64 meters for the large gas pipe (later: three gas pipes with a diameter of 120 centimeters each) was built around a gas pipeline from the municipal gasworks in Simmering to the 2nd district of Vienna to enable. The semi-parabolic beams are 3.5 meters high at the ends and 8.5 meters in the middle and 6.55 meters apart.

The building was planned by the architect of the Viennese city building authority Johann Nepomuk Scheiringer (1855–1934) and the city engineer Josef Luger; the work on the steel structure was carried out by the Gridl company from Vienna.

The Gaswerksteg as a grandstand on July 5, 1936

The possibility of making it accessible for pedestrians was provided at the planning stage and the load-bearing capacity of the footbridge was designed accordingly. In an agreement concluded between Hofärar and the municipality of Vienna on December 8, 1900, the Hofärar agreed to the adaptation and use of the bridge structure for pedestrian traffic as soon as the adjacent Quaistraße ( ceded in favor of the municipality) ( Donaulände ; today: Ost-Autobahn A4 ) was expanded to the gas bridge .

When the district administration took the first initiatives to implement the original project in 1907, they met with the refusal of the Hofärar, who apparently wanted to avoid further development of the Prater . Only in 1910, in order to make the footbridge usable for pedestrians, new ceiling parts were drawn into the construction and staircases were added on both banks. The opening to traffic, which took place without any celebrations, should have fallen on November 21, 1910.

In terms of traffic, the bridge was upgraded with the opening of the Pressburg Railway on the right bank of the Danube Canal in 1914 ( Gassteg stop ), which in 1909 and 1910 offered tram lines 80 ( Lusthaus ) and 81 ( Galopprennbahn Freudenau ) on the left bank of the canal, i.e. on the Prater side of the canal also connection.

In the 1930s, the bridge structure played a role in major sporting events: on July 5, 1936 as the finish line at the 15th Austrian Zillen Championship , which started on the Schlachthausbrücke ; July 2, 1937, the 16th Austrian championship Zille at which the VIP stand and the bodies for on the dock diving were.

During the Battle of Vienna in 1945, the Wehrmacht also blew up the gas works. The reconstruction had already progressed so far in November 1945 that provisional gas pipes could be laid and completion was planned for the coming spring. The Russian Stakhanov workers involved in the rebuilding of the Malinovsky Bridge (which opened on May 19, 1946) were also involved in the construction of the new gas works walkway.

In May 1903, the district administration proposed the name Gasrohrsteg for the property , and at the end of 1903 the Vienna City Council decided to name the bridge structure Gaswerksteg . This name was officially set on July 10, 1963 for the rebuilt footbridge by the responsible municipal council committee. The name is reminiscent of the historic Erdberg gasworks of the Imperial Continental Gas Association .

In 1988 the footbridge was extended on both sides and provided with ramps for easier access. Immediately below the extension in the 3rd district is the underground railway station Erdberg of Wiener Linien with the Erdberg station of the U3 line.

literature

  • Franz Kapaun: The building of the Viennese urban gas works. On behalf of Mayor Karl Lueger. Self-published by the Vienna City Council, Vienna 1901.
  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube. Edition Wien, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 .
  • Walter Hufnagel (Ed.): Crossings. Bridges - City - Vienna. Verlag Sappl, Kufstein 2002, ISBN 3-902154-05-5 .
  • Alfred Pauser: Bridges in Vienna - A guide through the history of construction. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-25255-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Gaswerksteg . In: Ewald Frühwirth (Red.): The Vienna Gasometer - a journey through time . In: gasometer-city.eu , June 11, 2016, accessed October 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Community Affairs. (...) Gas works walkway. In:  Deutsches Volksblatt / Deutsches Volksblatt. Radical medium-sized organ / telegraph. Radical Mittelstandsorgan / Deutsches Volksblatt. Daily newspaper for Christian German politics , morning edition, No. 5366/1903 (15th year), December 13, 1903, p. 33, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dvb.
  3. ↑ Daily news. (...) Daring attempts. In:  Tiroler Anzeiger. With the evening edition: “IZ-Innsbrucker Zeitung” and the illustrated weekly supplement: “Weltguck” , No. 152/1936 (XXIX. Volume), July 6, 1936, p. 3, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan.
  4. ↑ community newspaper . Vienna City Council. Meeting of June 4, 1902. (…) Regarding the gas bridge (…). In:  Reichspost. Independent daily newspaper for the Christian people of Austria-Hungary , No. 126/1902 (IX. Year), June 5, 1902, p. 3, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt.
  5. ^ Vienna affairs. (...) The gas pipe web. In:  Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the “Neue Wiener Tagblatt” , No. 334/1907 (XLI. Volume), December 5, 1907, p. 6, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  6. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) The Gassteg over the Danube Canal. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 265/1910, November 20, 1910, p. 6, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  7. ↑ All kinds of sports. The program of the barge championship. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 180/1936 (LXX. Year), July 2, 1936, p. 6, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst;
    All kinds of sports. (...) Water sports review in the Danube Canal. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 181/1936 (LXX. Year), July 3, 1936, p. 7, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst.
  8. ↑ All kinds of sports. The barge championship. In:  Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , No. 183/1937 (LXXI. Volume), July 5, 1937, p. 6, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wst.
  9. ↑ All eight Viennese bridges ready in spring. In:  Austrian Volksstimme. Central organ of the Communist Party of Austria , No. 77/1945, November 4, 1945, p. 3 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ovs.
  10. ↑ Malinowski Bridge completed at the Stakhanov pace. Opening on 19.d. - Exemplary cooperation between Russian pioneers and Austrian workers. In:  Austrian Volksstimme. Central organ of the Communist Party of Austria , No. 112/1946, May 15, 1946, p. 3 (unpaginated). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ovs.
  11. ^ Community affairs . (...) "Marxerbrücke" and "Gasrohrsteg". In:  Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , morning edition, No. 133/1903 (XXXII. Year), May 15, 1903, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / iwe.
  12. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 26 "  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 12"  E