Hofbrunnwerk Canal

The Hofbrunnwerkkanal is a canal that supplies the Hofbrunnwerk on the northern edge of the Munich Hofgarten with water to drive its turbines. The canal belongs to the system of the Munich city streams .

course

The Hofbrunnwerk Canal is around 410 m long, 1.17 m wide and 0.58 m deep. It carries an average amount of water of 600 l / s and has a gradient of around 1.2%.

The canal is branched off underground from the western Stadtgrabenbach in front of the middle of the north wing of the residence , continues underground, initially at an incline through the Hofgarten to its northeast corner and then eastwards to the Hofbrunnwerk.

After the turbines have been driven, the water continues to flow underground towards the northeast under the Harmloswiese and between Prinz-Carl-Palais and Köglmühlbach to the pedestrian underpass under the Altstadtring . There it flows in a trough covered with gratings and flows below a waterfall at the beginning of the English Garden into the Schwabinger Bach that begins there .

history

A canal had already been laid for the first Hofbrunnwerk, which was built in 1562, which presumably branched off from the western Stadtgrabenbach. The canal as it is today was built around 1845 when the old fountain at the Residenz was demolished and rebuilt next to the Hofbrunnwerk.

In 1968 the Hofbrunnwerkkanal was closed because it stood in the way of the construction of the Altstadtring, and the Hofbrunnwerk was shut down. As part of the conversion of the old Army Museum into the State Chancellery , in which the Köglmühlbach was rebuilt next to its original bed, the Hofbrunnwerk Canal and the Hofbrunnwerk were also put back into operation in 1991.

literature

• Christine Rädlinger : History of the Munich city streams . Ed .: City Archives Munich . Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9809147-2-0 , p. 166 .
• Franz Schiermeier: Munich city streams . Travel guide to the lifelines of a city. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813190-9-5 .