Gaudenzdorf gasworks
| Gaudenzdorf gasometer | |
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| Gasometer (around 1890) | |
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| State : | Austria |
| Region : | Lower Austria |
| City : | Gaudenzdorf |
| Construction data | |
| Shutdown: | 1911 |
| Reuse: | Green area and parking lot |
| Cancellation: | 1912 |
The Gaudenzdorfer Gaswerk was a private gas factory that existed between 1855 and 1911 in the Viennese suburb of Gaudenzdorf , later Vienna - Meidling .
history
After it became apparent in the first half of the 19th century that gas would be more effective in lighting apartments and public spaces, various experiments with luminous gas were also made in Vienna , but initially did not bring the desired success. The Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) was founded in London in 1824 with the aim of building gas works in all major European cities. In 1842, she took over the Fünfhaus gas works in a suburb of Vienna, which was in financial difficulties . In the nearby Gaudenzdorf, gas lighting with gas from the Fünfhauser gas works was initiated for the first time by Mayor Josef Leopold Gierster in 1853 .
In 1855 the local Austrian Gas Lighting AG (Ö.GAG) was founded in competition with the English company, but its owners remained anonymous. In the same year, they built the Gaudenzdorfer gasworks in what was then Jakobstrasse 24–30, which later became Dunklergasse. It had 3 gasometers , an office and management building, several outbuildings and 3 large chimneys. The site lay on the right bank of the Wien River and stretched between it, today's Otto Wagner Bridge , today's Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel and today's Margaretengürtel subway station .
Over time, the Gaudenzdorf gasworks supplied the Viennese suburbs of Fünfhaus , Sechshaus , Rudolfsheim , Gaudenzdorf, Obermeidling , Untermeidling , Hetzendorf and Altmannsdorf as well as part of Lerchenfeld with 686 street lights and 26667 private connections. In addition, the gas lighting for the Vienna Court Opera (today the Vienna State Opera ) came from him. In 1877 the gas works, heated by 12 ovens, produced between 4140 and 15418 m³ of gas. Coke was produced as a waste product , which the population liked to use as heating material. The gas lines from the factory to the customers had to be built and maintained by the gas factory.
The Ö.GAG also developed its own type of gas lantern , which was called the Gaudenzdorfer lantern . This had an octagonal lantern base and a square lantern, which was crowned by a pine cone. In addition, it was protected from damage by carts by a wheel deflector .
Our own factory fire brigade provided the necessary plant protection. So on January 3, 1875, a roof fire, together with the Fünfhaus and Sechshaus fire departments, prevented worse things from happening.
From the 1870s, however, the Christian-social opposition in the Vienna City Hall called for the construction of a city gas works to protect the city's gas supply from being dependent on private companies. It was not until 1899 that this requirement was implemented, when the municipal gasworks Vienna-Simmering was put into operation and was supposed to replace the private gas companies. The different terms of the private contracts were uniformly limited to 1910. As a result, the Gaudenzdorf gas works also had to cease operations the following year. The buildings were demolished in 1912, the route of the Gaudenzdorf belt, which had been planned and moved for 20 years, could now be laid through the site of the former gas factory.
In 1985, when the tunnel was being built for the U4 underground line , the gasometer tanks and the remains of the Gaudenzdorf gasworks were found, which unexpectedly delayed construction. The site of the former Gaudenzdorf gas factory has remained undeveloped since then; there is a green area and a parking lot.
literature
- Luise Roubal: About the Gaudenzdorf gasworks and gas lighting . Sheets of the District Museum Meidling No. 28/1991.
- Friedrich Fischer: Chronicle of the Viennese suburb Gaudenzdorf . 1927
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 17 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 23 ″ E