Rohrwasser

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Röhrwasser were systems for the water supply in pre-industrial times.

Portion Market 4 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
Water towers at the Red Gate in Augsburg

In Saxony, such systems were also known as tube trips , in Franconia sometimes as tube trips and in the Harz as water trips .

Commissioned by city governments or sovereigns, laid Röhrmeister sometimes over long distances Deicheln that in portions led taps above. The leveling of the complex system and the maintenance of the water locks were also part of their duties. Some systems were in operation for centuries before they were replaced by modern installations.

Exemplary use cases

  • In Augsburg , between 1412 and 1416, foremen Leopold Karg and Hans Felber set up a municipal water supply with around 5,000 dikes. The total output of the five wells was 1382 steften (4146 l / min). The facilities were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019 .
  • In Lutherstadt Wittenberg , two of the five former tube rides from the 16th century have been preserved in working order to this day; the old and new Jungfernröhrwasser. Their taps (portions) can be seen on many farms in the old town, as well as on the market and the wood market.
  • Until a central water supply was set up in 1869, the city of Iserlohn was supplied from ponds in the Wermings Valley, which were connected to 40 wells throughout the city by wooden pipes.
  • In 1530, Christoph von Beulwitz used pipe water from the Leimitz tunnel to expand the water supply for the city of Hof .
  • In Salzburg , water flowed through the city's last wooden dyke line, the historic Sternweiherbrunnenleitung, until 1976.
  • The aqueduct that gave the Freudenstadt Teuchelwald its name was in operation until 1952.
  • A line made of several meters long (outer diameter no more than 8 cm), axially drilled out wooden poles, which supplied the hut at Grünen See , Styria, was only replaced by a plastic line around 1990. A tiller was still in good condition at the bottom of the lake around 2000.
  • In 2016, excavation work in Innsbruck uncovered a pipeline from the 16th century.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Friedrich Schröder : First continuation of my treatise on the Brocken Mountains, or letters to the lieutenant engineer Lasius, about various height measurements, two large magnetic rocks discovered, and other strange objects from the Brocken Mountains . Tuchtfeld, Hildesheim 1790, p. 11 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Stadtwerke Augsburg: Water with history
  3. ^ Gerhard Endriss: The artificial irrigation of the Black Forest and the adjacent areas. In: Reports of the Natural Research Society in Freiburg im Breisgau. Vol. 42, No. 1, 1952, pp. 77–113, here p. 103, ( digital version (PDF; 4.16 MB) ).
  4. ↑ Centuries-old aqueduct discovered, ORF-Tirol .