Hieflauer rake
The Hieflauer rake was located in the river Enns near Hieflau in what is today the municipality of Landl in the Liezen district in Styria . It was built by Hans von Gasteiger . The remains of the rake are under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The Hieflauer Rake was built in 1502 by order of Emperor Maximilian to catch felled tree trunks that were drifting down the Enns. After several floods that had destroyed the old rake, Archduke Karl gave the order in 1574 to build a new rake. This was 252 meters long and 11 meters wide, and there was a 25 meter long side screen in front of it. With water elevators, which were operated with a water wheel or through a turnstile in times of low water, the wood was lifted ashore, chopped up and made into charcoal piles - so-called long piles that were lying until 1800, later standing, so-called round piles. The charcoal was used in the Eisenerzer blow houses and wheel works to produce pig iron, later also in Hieflau blast furnaces. Towards the end of the 19th century, charcoal lost its importance due to the conversion to coke, and in 1908 the superstructure of the wood trench was removed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hieflauer Ennsrechen. In: Josef Hasitschka: The Gesäuse. The Gesäuse (PDF) Gesäuse National Park , Admont 2012.
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 30.2 " N , 14 ° 44 ′ 32.2" E