Hernals water pipe

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The Hernals water pipeline is considered to be the first Viennese water pipeline , although the Siebenbrunn court water pipeline was completed earlier. It supplied drinking water from springs in Hernals in Vienna.

history

The reason for the construction of the Hernals water pipeline was a major fire that broke out on the night of July 18-19, 1525 in what is now the Amalientrakt of the Vienna Hofburg . Of a little more than 1,000 houses in Vienna , 460 buildings, including St. Stephen's Cathedral and Michaelerkirche , were destroyed.

On March 7, 1526, the Archduke and later Emperor Ferdinand I commissioned the City Council of Vienna to create a project for the introduction of running water to Vienna. However, lack of money, the first Turkish siege of Vienna and the Turkish wars, the plague in 1541 and famine in 1556 and 1559 delayed the completion of the aqueduct until after 1564. The completed aqueduct was first mentioned in a concession letter on August 12, 1565 , in which the city of Vienna was allowed to lay the pipeline.

The origin of this water pipe lay between Hernals and Dornbach and delivered up to 12,000 cubic meters per day at peak times, but over time the delivery volume of the weather-dependent pipe was reduced to around 45 cubic meters per day.

On August 23, 1707, the lower chamberlain of the city of Vienna was instructed to feed additional sources into the Hernals water pipe. On February 1, 1708, the abbot and the convent of the St. Peter Abbey in Salzburg, as property owners, approved this project. In 1732 the main source of the Alserbach was finally included in the aqueduct. As a result, the stream dried up almost completely, so that a mill in Hernals had to be shut down. On January 10, 1736, the city council of Vienna awarded the affected miller compensation.

From the headwaters to the city wall, the Hernals water pipeline consisted of wooden pipes, within the city wall of lead pipes. The well house of the aqueduct, which existed until 1879, was located at Hohen Markt and Am Hof.

This expansion measure initially made the construction possible

  • an outlet in Alserstrasse,
  • two pools at Am Hof,
  • two pools on the Hoher Markt,
  • an outlet in the war building at Am Hof,
  • an outlet in the Vienna City Building Office Am Hof,
  • an outlet in the civil arsenal,
  • an outlet in the old town hall,
  • an outlet in the State Ministry building,
  • an outlet in the former Schrannen building
  • as well as the connection of some other buildings to the water supply.

The decline in spring yield later made it necessary to connect to the Kaiser-Ferdinands-Wasserleitung . In 1879 the last existing stone well of the Hernals water pipeline at Taubergasse was removed.

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Hernals water pipe ( Memento from October 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

literature

  • The water supply of the city of Vienna in its past and present - memorandum for the opening of the high spring water pipeline in 1873 , based on official data edited by Rudolf Stadler, Vienna, 1873, self-published by the Vienna City Council
  • Hernals - a home book for the 17th district of Vienna , published by teachers from Hernals, Österreichischer Schulbücherverlag, Vienna, 1924
  • Josef Donner: To refresh you, my beloved Vienna - History of water supply from its beginnings to 1910 , Norka Verlag Dr. Norbert Kastelic, ISBN 3-85126-25-2
  • Ruth Koblizek, Nicole Süssenbek: Water in every citizen's house - The drinking water supply of Vienna , MEMO Association for Historical Research , Vienna, 2003, ISBN 3-9501238-2-2