Gailitz scrap tower

The scrap tower Gailitz or scrap tower Arnoldstein is a scrap tower in Arnoldsteiner district Gailitz. He stands on the remains of the Fuggerau .

In 1814, the lead dealer Simon Wallner built a 25 m high wooden scrap tower on the remains of the early industrial Fugger systems. Wallner had learned about the process in England. This first shot mill in Austria produced around 199 t of shot in 1817 and around 255 t in 1818. In 1830 Wallner replaced the complex with a 57 m high masonry one. This came to the Bleiberger Bergwerks Union (BBU) in 1880 . The BBU modernized the plant several times and only closed it in 1974 as the last scrap tower in Austria. The complex has been a listed building since 1978 .

Web links

Commons : Schrotturm Gailitz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Archives for patriotic history and topography, Volume 99. In: books.google.at. P. 90 , accessed January 29, 2017 .
↑ Reinhold Gasper, Friedrich Hans Ucik: The former scrap tower near the Hollenburg (Southern Carinthia) and the other scrap towers in Carinthia and Austria, which was previously unknown in the specialist literature . In: Carinthia II . 2006, p. 2 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed on January 29, 2017]).

46.54817222 13.69349167Coordinates: 46 ° 32 ′ 53.4 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 36.6" E

[1] Archives for patriotic history and topography, Volume 99. In: books.google.at. P. 90 , accessed January 29, 2017 .

[gasper-2] Reinhold Gasper, Friedrich Hans Ucik: The former scrap tower near the Hollenburg (Southern Carinthia) and the other scrap towers in Carinthia and Austria, which was previously unknown in the specialist literature . In: Carinthia II . 2006, p. 2 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed on January 29, 2017]).