Klausen-Leopoldsdorf wood drift system

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Overview historical Klausen
Hauptklause
Riesenbachklause

The wood drift system Klausen-Leopoldsdorf is a former drift system in the municipality of Klausen-Leopoldsdorf in Lower Austria. It was founded in 1667 under Emperor Leopold I as a wood drift system in the Schwechattal and consisted of 14 Klausen when fully expanded . It was used to transport felled wood from the Schwechat catchment area and its tributaries. The wood was collected in Baden with a computer and transported to Vienna via the Wiener Neustädter Canal . In 1756 the main hermitage was built as a solid structure instead of a wooden previous building. Carpenters from the Salzkammergut founded the settlement "Leopoldsdorff in der Claußen", today Klausen-Leopoldsdorf.

The data of the system were:

  • Water catchment area 69.62 km²
  • Total capacity 253,000 m³
  • Triftbach length 84 km
  • Total drift volume 1667–1939: 8.5 million running meters

The last drift took place in 1939, according to other information in 1942.

List of the individual Klausen

  • Agsbachklause
  • Gaisrückenklause ( location )
  • Grödlklause
  • Groß-Krottenbachklause
  • Hainbachklause ( location )
  • Hanefbachklause (in the municipality of Alland )
  • Hauptklause ( location ) (preserved)
  • Hollerbachklause
  • Klein-Krottenbachklause ( location )
  • Lengbachklause ( location ) (preserved)
  • Ranzenbachklause
  • Riesenbachklause ( location ) (preserved): Built in 1742 and operated in Holztrift until 1939. Served as a reservoir for 22,000 m³ of water, with its power in several drifts in one year up to 18,000 cubic meters of firewood logs were washed to Baden. The hermitage, which was revitalized in 2006, was converted into a flood retention basin .
  • Schöpflklause ( location ) , also Salygrabenklause (preserved): The Schöpflklause wood drift and forest museum is located there.
  • Weidenbachklause

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sagen.at - The Triftanlage around Klausen-Leopoldsdorf in the Vienna Woods, accessed on November 15, 2015
  2. ↑ a b display board at the Riesenbachklause
  3. ↑ a b Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria . Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1, A to L. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 24 f., 975 .
  4. ^ Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria: history, technology, architecture . Böhlau, 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0 , p. 387 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed November 18, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Schöpflklause wood drift and forest museum at www.noemuseen.at

Web links

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