Siebenbrunner Hofwasserleitung
The Siebenbrunner Hofwasserleitung is a historical aqueduct of the Viennese water supply . From sources in what is now the 5th district of Vienna Margareten , it primarily supplied the Hofburg and the buildings of the nobility and the church with drinking water. Although the Siebenbrunn Hofwasserleitung was commissioned after the Hernalser Wasserleitung , it was completed before this.
history
The Seven Hofwasserleitung was around 1552/1553 by order of the Roman-German king and later Emperor Ferdinand I created. Their starting point was a total of seven springs in Matzleinsdorf , Laurenzergrund , Hungelbrunn , Margareten , Hundsturm , Reinprechtsdorf and Nikolsdorf . This water was collected in two main spring rooms ("Große Brunnstube" and "Einsiedler Brunnstube", built around 1552 and rebuilt in 1716). In addition to the Hofburg, various monasteries, palaces, administrative buildings, barracks and later also the so-called Favorita, today's Theresianum , were supplied from this water pipe .
The water flowing from these springs originally formed a stream flowing into the Wien River , which drove the so-called Hundsmühle. After the springs were set and the water drained off, the stream dried up at first.
In the 20s of the 18th century, however, the productivity of the springs increased again, so that a stream formed again, which repeatedly caused damage to meadows and fields as well as in Reinprechtsdorfer Strasse and Siebenbrunnengasse.
Instead of the wooden pipes originally used and customary at the time, cast iron pipes were used from 1808 onwards. The replacement work, which resulted in lower water losses, lasted until 1826. This water pipe was in use until the first Viennese spring water pipe was put into operation in Vienna.
Margareten's house wells only delivered poor quality water with a sulphurous taste and so the residents turned to the court chancellery in 1825 with the request to be allowed to lay their own water pipe from the Siebenbrunnenwiese. However, this was refused. Four years later, in an audience, they turned to Emperor Franz I , who on February 28, 1829, allowed the municipality of Margareten to draw water free of charge by means of a half-inch pipe into a water basin on what was then Schlossplatz in Margareten.
However, the realization was delayed. During the construction of the cholera canal in 1832 along the right bank of the Vienna river, numerous wells dried up. Only an ordinance of September 3, 1835 finally allowed the construction of the line that supplied the Margaret Fountain with drinking water.
Today the Siebenbrunnen at Siebenbrunnenplatz as well as the Siebenbrunnengasse , the Siebenbrunnenfeldgasse and the Margaretenbrunnen remind of the Siebenbrunner Hofwasserleitung .
literature
- The water supply of the city of Vienna in its past and present - memorandum for the opening of the high spring water pipeline in 1873 , based on official data edited by Rudolf Stadler, Vienna, 1873, self-published by the Vienna City Council
- Franz Maurer: The former Viennese suburb Margareten , Vienna, 1910
- Josef Donner: To refresh you, my beloved Vienna ... - History of the Viennese water supply from its beginnings to 1910 , Norka Verlag Dr. Norbert Kastelic, ISBN 3-85126-25-2
- Ruth Koblizek, Nicole Süssenbek: Water in every citizen's house - The drinking water supply of Vienna , MEMO Association for Historical Research , Vienna, 2003, ISBN 3-9501238-2-2