Breitensee pumping station

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View of the waterworks
former Breitensee pumping station - residential building
Cultural property and service board
former Breitensee pumping station - machine hall

The Breitensee pumping station (also Hebewerk or Breitensee pumping station ) in Hütteldorfer Strasse 142 in Penzing (still Hietzing at the time of construction ) was the first pumping station in the Viennese water supply network .

history

The Breitensee pumping station was built at a cost of 528,645.46 guilders and put into operation on November 6, 1896, in order to be able to supply the higher-lying districts in the west of the city of Vienna, which were newly incorporated in 1892, with drinking water from the first Viennese spring water pipeline .

The water from the high spring was increased from its own to 120,500 cubic meters by means of a 5312 meter long water pipe (2836 meters with 950 millimeters nominal diameter and 2476 meters with 870 millimeters nominal diameter), which also supplied Speising , Lainz , Hietzing, Baumgarten , Hacking , Unter Sankt Veit and parts of Hütteldorf Rose Hill's extended water tank capacity was transferred here.

The first endowment was made to the Breitensee water reservoir 800 meters away in Altebergenstrasse (or Braillegasse) west of the Vega-Payer-Weyprecht barracks built in 1904 and the Zeiss factory built in 1916 . From there the water arrived under its own steam in the container Schafberg . The water level of the Rosenhügel container is approximately 245 meters above sea level, the axis of the pumps was approximately 229 meters above sea level and the water level of the container in Altebergenstrasse (or Braillegasse) is approximately 274 meters above sea level Altitude.

The Breitensee pumping station consisted of a machine house, a boiler house, the valve house, a weighing house, a cooling tower, the coal depot and a staff residence.

The entire complex was built using exposed brick. The former staff residence, which, like the rest of the area, is still used as a service building by MA 31 - Wiener Wasserwerke , is a two-storey building with pilaster strips and a sloping corner with a raised risalit. The inscription " Stadt Wien MDCCCXCVI " is on the attic . The plant was built by Union-Baugesellschaft , and the Prague-based company Märky, Bromovsky & Schulz was responsible for the delivery and assembly of the mechanical equipment as well as for the iron roof construction.

  • There were four pumps in the machine house, with space left for a fifth. The pumps were lying compound steam engines with a 'Doktor Proell' automatic valve control ' and two adjacent steam cylinders. The pumps were directly coupled to the piston rod. Each pair of pumps delivered 8,000 cubic meters of water in 23 hours.
  • The boiler house had four Multitubular boiler system Fairbairn having a heating area of 110 square meters each. The kettles were 6.8 meters long and 2 meters in diameter.
  • The cooling tower consisted of a 10.8 meter tower made of larch wood with a graduation system J. Popper . A total of 48 sieve boxes were installed on several floors, through whose holes the water was divided into fine water jets. The air moving in between cooled the water sufficiently so that it could be used again.

The Breitensee pumping station supplied supplies in the then district borders until the end of June 1898

  • 0400 houses in the 13th district ,
  • 0350 houses in the 14th district ,
  • 0170 houses in the 15th district ,
  • 1200 houses in the 16th district,
  • 0600 houses in the 17th district ,
  • in the 18th district 0572 houses and
  • 0172 houses with drinking water in the 19th district .

After the Steinhof reservoir went into operation , the pumping station, which has been a listed building since June 15, 2004, was decommissioned.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Hietzing - A home book of the 13th district of Vienna, published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde in Hietzing, 1st volume, Vienna, 1925 - page 254
  2. ↑ Ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office regarding the 14th district of Vienna

literature

  • The waterworks of the Vienna high spring pipeline in the XIII. District (Breitensee). Self-published by the author, Vienna 1898.
  • DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .

Web links

Commons : Pumpwerk Breitensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 51 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 41 ″  E