Gsang water

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Gsangwasser
Old Steyr [II]
View from the Kalkofenbrücke towards Voglsang-Wehr

View from the Kalkofenbrücke towards Voglsang-Wehr

Data
Water code AT : GGN: 5538
location in Steyr , Upper Austria
Drain over Steyr  → Enns  → Danube  → Black Sea
River basin district Danube below Jochenstein (DUJ)
Diversion Bullet trap weir ( ⊙ ) of the Steyr near Christkindl settlement 48 ° 2 ′ 24 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 14 ″  E
Source height 291  m above sea level A.
muzzle below Voglsang-Wehr ( ⊙ ) near Vogelsang coordinates: 48 ° 2 '30 "  N , 14 ° 24' 43"  E 48 ° 2 '30 "  N , 14 ° 24' 43"  E
Mouth height 288  m above sea level A.
Height difference marginal

length approx. 800 m
Right tributaries Teufelsbach
Communities Steyr
The catchment area is included in the Teufelsbach.

The Gsangwasser , also called Alte Steyr , is a tributary of the Steyr River in the statutory city of Steyr in Upper Austria .

Run, Hydrography, and History

The Gsangwasser lies west of Steyra upstream of the old town . It is a right side channel and separates the Gsanginsel (Eisenfeld / Karolinental) from Vogelsang and the Christkindlsiedlung (the main course of the Steyr is called Mitterwasser here ).

The arm is diverted at the bullet trap weir . It is then about 800 m long. The Teufelsbach , which comes from Saaß, flows from the south (right) about halfway . The Voglsang weir is located just before the return mouth .

The Gsangwasser is probably a natural arm of the Steyr's clogged course, which was built in the Middle Ages or early modern times. It is hydrographically listed as Alte Steyr  [II]. The Teufelsbach was only diverted here in 1572, originally it flowed south of the old town to the Enns. At the end of the 18th century there is a mill by the Voglsang weir (now abandoned) and wood piling places. In 1868 Josef Werndl, founder of the Steyr weapons factory (Steyr-Werke), built another factory building at Voglsang-Wehr, the Gsangfabrik (object XI) with a power station (power station II). Today, it is listed residential building (Waldorf kindergarten). Since then, the corridor north of the now disused Voglsang factory canal, which was originally just called Öd, has been called Factory Island . In the 1870s, Werndl built the Eysnfeld workers' settlement on the Gsang Island ( Karolinenthal from 1878 ). In 1889, the Steyr local train station of the Steyrtalbahn was built on the still unspoilt river bank above the Teufelsbach estuary .

In 2007 the north bank of the Eisenfeldsiedlung was provided with a flood protection dam. In 2015 the bullet trap received an organism migration aid towards the Mitterwasser.

  • Eisenfeld / Gsanginsel in front of the old town (aerial photo, 1932)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Digital Upper Austrian Room Information System (DORIS); Subject waters and geology , layer small waters (there Alte Steyr II ) and detailed catchment areas .
  2. ↑ a b Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (ed.): List of areas of the Austrian river basins: Enns area. (= Contributions to Austria's Hydrography , Issue No. 61), Vienna 2011, p. 60 ( pdf ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. , Lebensministerium.at) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebensministerium.at
  3. ↑ For an overview of the transverse structures, see bridge and hydraulic engineering. steyr.at (accessed September 14, 2017).
  4. ^ The Merian engraving instead of Steyr (in GM Vischer: Topographia Austriae superioris modernae , Vienna 1674, plate 177; image file Wikimedia Commons) shows no fortifications overall; a bridge to Gsang Island is listed.
  5. ↑ a b The Josephinische Landesaufnahme (around 1780) guides a water wheel here; in the Franciscan cadastre (around 1830) cat. 256, a timber yard at the mouth Teufelsbach named, the factory island as Oed (all country recordings online at Arcanum / Austrian State Archives: mapire.eu ).
  6. ^ Press conference Rudi Anschober, David Forstenlechner: Flood protection for the city of Steyr , on May 9, 2008; Information, Landeskorrespondenz Medieninfo, Land Oberösterreich, p. 3 ( pdf, land-oberoesterreich.gv.at, accessed September 8, 2018).
  7. ↑ Peter Prack: News from Unterer Steyr and Enns . Part II, in: ÖKO · L 39/4 (2017), p. 25, column 1 ( full article, p. 21–35, pdf, files.wordpress.com, accessed September 7, 2018).