Hanns Reiffenstuel

The title of this article is ambiguous. For a German painter with a similar name, see Hans Reiffenstuel (1894–1980).

Hanns Reiffenstuel (* 1548 in Gmund am Tegernsee ; † June 29, 1620 presumably there) ( ue is pronounced as a long u, see also the expansion symbol ) was a German court architect (more precisely Hofbrunnen - and master carpenter ) from Bavaria.

Life

Hanns Reiffenstuel, born in Gmund am Tegernsee , was an innkeeper and master builder. From 1597 he was court architect of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria , but had already made great contributions to his father, Duke Wilhelm IV . Together with his son, the Hofbrunn master and carpenter Simon Reiffenstuel , he managed the construction of the brine pipeline from Bad Reichenhall to Traunstein from 1617 to 1619 . The salt water pipeline, which is more than 30 kilometers long, overcame an altitude of around 250 meters through seven pumping stations (“Brunnhäuser”), whose piston pumps were driven by seven meter high water wheels. At that time there were already brine pipes to the Ebensee saltworks on the Traunsee in the Salzkammergut; However, these used the natural gradient and therefore did not require any pumps. In 1619 Hanns Reiffenstuel retired, his son Simon Reiffenstuel died a few months before him in Gmund.

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  Replica of a piston pump in the Salinenpark Traunstein

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  Reiffenstuel piston pressure pump

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  Reiffenstuel piston pressure pump

The Reichenhall-Traunstein brine pipeline was in operation until 1912, its extension to Rosenheim, which had been in place since 1810, until 1958. In the vicinity of the Thumsee near Bad Reichenhall you can now walk on a themed hiking trail along the dykes (wooden pipes) and past the “fountain houses” on the route of the “first pipeline in the world” and thus on Reiffenstuel's tracks. At various other locations along the old route, there are hints, drawbars to be visited and other traces of the historic brine pipes, e.g. B. near Weißbach an der Alpenstrasse , Siegsdorf , Traunstein and Rosenheim .

Honors

Reifenstuelstrasse in Bad Reichenhall

In Bad Reichenhall, the Reifenstuelstrasse, which is not far from the brine pipeline from Bad Reichenhall to Traunstein and the still existing Brunnhaus Fager , was named after Hanns and Simon Reiffenstuel. In Traunstein , Reiffenstuelstraße is named after Simon and Hans Reiffenstuel, and is located in the immediate vicinity of the Traunsteiner Saline . The "Reiffenstuel Realschule " in Traunstein is also named after father Hanns and son Simon Reiffenstuel.

literature

• Walter Staller:  Reiffenstuel, Hanns. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 328 f. ( Digitized version ).
• The brine pipe from Reichenhall to Traunstein 1617–1619. German Museum, 1978.
• Kurt Enzinger: Bavarian salt. Pannonia, 1995.
• M. Treml, W. Jahn, E. Brockhoff (eds.): Salt, power, history. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Published by Bayer. Business u. Culture 30. Regensburg, Augsburg 1995.