List of hydraulic rams

This page lists a selection of the locations of hydraulic rams .

Germany

state	place	Construction year	Technical specifications				comment
			Conveying quantity [l / d]	Height under- difference [m]	Riser pipe length [m]	Functional ?
Baden-Württemberg	Neukirch - Wildpoltsweiler			approx. 50	about 700	Yes	Care of the animals in a wildlife park in summer
Baden-Württemberg	Eberhardzell					Yes	At Klingelrain (single farmstead)
Baden-Württemberg	Hottingen			7th		Yes	Drives a water wheel in the Energy Museum. Drive with 2 m gradient of the river Murg .
Baden-Württemberg	Castle Hohenzollern		approx. 28,000	approx. 255	about 1000	Yes	Hydraulic rams are also used to supply the castle with water due to its exposed location. After the water initially runs from the source with a height difference of 86 meters to 2 rams, part of the driving water is pumped up to Hohenzollern Castle. The daily delivery rate depends on the setting for the rams.
Baden-Württemberg	Neubulach						at the visitor mine
Baden-Württemberg	Bad Herrenalb					Yes	to supply the Hahnenfalzhütte.
Baden-Württemberg	Stuttgart- Botnang	1875		67 m		No	Sommerhaldenweg in S.-Botnang. The purpose was to supply the two forest houses at Schloss Solitude from a spring in the Sommerhaldenbach valley below.
Bavaria	Oberstdorf					Yes	next to the church
Bavaria	Oberstdorf					Yes	in the Oytal , halfway from Oberstdorf to the Oytal-Haus
Bavaria	Oberstdorf					Yes	on the Rappenseehütte .
Bavaria	Scheidegg					Yes	In addition to a hydraulic ram, other water delivery systems with display boards have also been set up on the playground at the Scheidegger waterfalls .
Bavaria	Usterling in the district of Dingolfing / Landau.						Display object on the Isar cycle path
Bavaria	Tegernbach (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm)					Yes	Served for decades to supply the high-altitude Kurz estates, still contributes to the supply of the cattle today.
Bavaria	In Pelkering , a hamlet near Triftern ( Lower Bavaria )					Yes	for supplying stables and gardens of some farmers.
Bavaria	Tauchersreuth in Lauf an der Pegnitz						Reconstruction of a system originally from 1907.
Bavaria	Franconian Open Air Museum Bad Windsheim		circa 1440			Yes	Ram operated in the frost-free months with a delivery rate of approx. One liter per minute to demonstrate the technology
Bavaria	On the Großer Waldstein in the Fichtel Mountains
Bavaria	Between Oberrohrenstadt and Deinschwang south of Nuremberg
Bavaria	Amerang					Yes	in a house in a meadow
Bavaria	near Veilbronn in Franconian Switzerland					Yes	in the Leidingshofer valley
Bavaria	Burggaillereuth in Wiesenttal					Yes	at the Burggaillreuth source next to the Leo Jobst hiking trail
Bavaria	In Bechtelsreuth near Mainleus	1907				Yes	supplies two properties with domestic water.
Bavaria	Alzgern (City of Neuötting)					Yes	publicly visible ram by the stream behind the cemetery. He conveys water to a distribution work of art with the 5 platonic solids. From here the water runs to the village well and the water troughs at the cemetery. The plant will be shut down over the winter.
Bavaria	Bavarian Forest Museum Village in Tittling					Yes
Bavaria	Vachendorf					Yes	on the way from Spielwang to Mühlbach, left at the end of the mountain
Bavaria	Altdorf near Nuremberg	1911		approx. 25		Yes	On the opposite slope to the Grünsberg castle . Made functional again in 2014 by the Hersbruck company Weinmann.
Bavaria	Train						in a wood near the border to Elsendorf
Hesse	Hinterbach (Odenwald)	around 1923				Yes	Aries (Hinterbach)
Hesse	Vielbrunn (Odenwald)					Yes
Lower Saxony	Gödenstorf in the district of Harburg	1912				Yes	System made up of several rams, maintained by the open-air museum on Kiekeberg ; served the water supply in Gödenstorf until 1958
North Rhine-Westphalia	Much in the Rhein-Sieg district					Yes	in the Technik & Bauern Museum Berzbach .
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ernzen					Yes	feeds the fountain in the Ernzer Felsenweiher
Rhineland-Palatinate	Irrel					Yes	on the water and nature adventure trail in the South Eifel nature park
Saxony	Stollberg / Erzgeb.					Yes	promotes in the Rosental (former drinking water catchment area with over 30 collecting shafts) into a pig pond
Saxony	Tauchritz ( Görlitz )	2003	4 × approx. 90,000	13		Yes	Four rams keep the water level constant in the pond of the water castle Tauchritz, which stands on oak stakes . The driving water (25 l / s) is taken from the flooding ditch of the open-cast mine residual hole in Berzdorfer See .
Saxony	Strehla					Yes	in city Park
Saxony	Kamenz	1905				Yes	as a medium pressure heureka ram system No. 6 from Merkel jun. erected from Dresden; carried drinking water into an elevated tank until 1929; fully functional again since 2005
Saxony	Zschetzsch at Colditz		approx. 5700	15th	200	Yes	The Zschetzscher Widder currently feeds a cattle trough, previously the system was used to supply the town with drinking water.
Saxony	Oederan					Yes	on the adventure trail "Fairytale Water Worlds" (for demonstration)
Saxony	Milkwitz near Bautzen					Yes	drives a fountain in Milkwitzwer Park
Schleswig-Holstein	Molfsee near Kiel	around 1800				No	in the open-air museum Molfsee
Schleswig-Holstein	Reesdorf (Holstein)	1936		12		Yes	Pumps spring water in the Eidertal
Thuringia	Ziegenrück					Yes	Show system in the hydropower museum, is in operation during the museum opening hours

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  in Oytal (Bavaria)

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  in the municipality of Steingaden (Bavaria)

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  at the old Geierstal waterworks (Vielbrunn, Odenwald)

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  in the Park Milkwitz (Saxony)

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  in Kamenz (Saxony)

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  in Zschetzsch (Saxony)

Austria

Salzburg

• In Großgmain in the Salzburg open-air museum , a functioning hydraulic ram of older design is on display.
• Drinking water supply for the Radeckalm alpine hut in the Anlauftal near Bad Gastein -Böckstein.
• In the WasserWelten Krimml at the entrance to the Krimml Waterfalls , a ram works outside.
• In Leo's water world at the senses adventure park, reachable with the 8-seater Asitz gondola lift, a ram is installed in a functional way for viewing. The valley station is located in the Hütten district in Leogang .
• On the Teufelsgraben nature adventure trail in Seeham / Matzing.
• On the Sautränkalm on the Schafberg . It will supply two alpine huts with drinking water. Height difference approx. 100 m.

Other federal states

• On the western slope of the Reinberg in Thalheim near Wels (Upper Austria), several rams were audibly at work until 1990, supplying the houses at the top of the gravel terrace.
• In Schwaz (Tyrol) the Kellerjochhütte of the Austrian Alpine Club is supplied with water.
• In Hohenems (Vorarlberg) for the water supply for Alpe Briedler. The ram (also known as "Klockbrunnen") stands on the forest path between Gsohl-Älpele and Fluhereck .

Switzerland

Hydraulic rams are not only in operation on the Alps, they also supply remote houses or stables with water. There are still three manufacturers in Switzerland today: Tobler in Alt St. Johann , Zahner in Uznach and the Schlumpf company , which has been making rams since 1885. The demand has increased significantly in recent years.

• A collection of hydraulic rams with a functional device is on display in the Toggenburg adventure world in Lichtensteig (Canton St. Gallen).
• Below Berggasthaus Mesmer, Alpstein (Appenzell Innerrhoden)
• Herrenalp, Nesslau , in operation for around 100 years, the oldest functioning ram in Toggenburg
• Alp Hoor below the Neuenalpspitz in Toggenburg, 323 m difference in altitude
• In the Hotel Faulhorn ob Grindelwald (Canton of Bern)
• In Sennhütten, Kästhal ( Aargau ). The system has been in operation for 70 years and feeds an old farm. Pumping height 70 m.
• In Seon , Schürberg (Aargau). The system from the 1950s was revised in 2010 and feeds the forest hut and fountain. Pumping height 78 m.
• Tierfehd ( Linthal GL ) below Baumgartenalp
• On the Alp Oberpfyfferswald in the Eigental
• Tripolihütte on the Pilatus between Mittaggüpfi and Stäfeliflue

France

• In the French commune of Montresor in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the park on the Indrois River, there is a hydraulic ram in a pump house, which was previously used to supply the castle with water. The pump house can be visited.

Italy

• On the Alpe di Siusi near the mountain station of the Ortisei in Val Gardena cable car , a privately owned, secluded mountain hut is supplied with water by a hydraulic ram.
• The Oberetteshütte in Matsch is supplied with water by means of a hydraulic ram.

Poland

• In Kainen, a district of Braunswalde near Allenstein , East Prussia .

Slovenia

• At the entrance to the “Brunarica pri Ingotu” alpine hut, south of Gozd Martuljek near Kranjska Gora , the hut provides supplies.

Locations in Africa

The installation of hydraulic rams was an important part of development aid for African countries in the 1970s and 1980s because of the autonomous functioning of this pump . The spread of the desert and semi-desert areas has made their use increasingly difficult since the ram needs a relatively large amount of water to flow through.

Burundi

In the hilly mountainous country of Burundi, East Africa, in the municipality of Bisoro (Burundi) , a start was made in 2014 with support from Albstadt (Germany) to set up a drinking water supply for the residents with the help of maintenance-free "hydraulic rams".

DR Congo

• In Matamba-Solo, Kwango Province, water is pumped 220 meters into the village.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A pleasure high - in the southern Black Forest from St. Blasien. (PDF; 249 KB) Viewers information on the broadcast on September 30, 2016, 6.15 p.m. In: Go there. SWR, September 30, 2016, p. 4 , accessed April 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Hydraulic Widder - Stuttgart District, Baden-Württemberg | Hiking tips & photos | Komoot. Retrieved on August 16, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ There is a video on the Facebook page of Vachendorf in Upper Bavaria.
4. ↑ A great work is done! Stromersche Kulturgut- Denkmal- und Naturstiftung, June 21, 2014, accessed on September 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Open-air museum on the Kiekeberg: Widderanlage Gödenstorf
6. ↑ Technology & Farmers Museum Berzbach
7. ↑ http://www.irrel.de/archiv/buerger/sport/erlebnis/pdf/tafel7.pdf
8. ^ City of Strehla - City Park. In: strehla.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF document page 2 
10. ↑ Zschetzscher Aries. Saxony's water system. September 2, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on January 30, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Hydraulic Ram - WasserWelten Krimml. Retrieved May 25, 2015 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d} Barbara Anderegg: Water pumps water up the mountain. In: Toggenburger Tagblatt from September 14, 2012
13. ↑ The Hydraulic Ram in Kainen. In: ostpreussen-info.de. Association of Young East Prussia, November 16, 2008, accessed on April 29, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Water for Bisoro with the Hydraulic Ram - 2014. Accessed October 21, 2015 . 
15. ↑ https://www.kwangeau.ch