Stephaniewarte

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The Stephaniewarte and on the right the transmitter Kahlenberg
Inscription "Crown Princess Stefanie-Warte 1887"

The Stephaniewarte (also Stefaniewarte ) is a 1887 erected observation tower on top of the 484 m high Kahlenberg in the 19th Vienna district Döbling .

Description and history

The observation tower was built in 1887 by the Kahlenbergbahn- Gesellschaft as part of the extension next to the terminus of the cog railway and named after the founder, Crown Princess Stephanie , wife of Crown Prince Rudolf . Which was planned waiting by Fellner & Helmer . During the construction, some of the bricks from the machine house of the cable car to Leopoldsberg, which was closed in 1876, were recycled. The rectangular tower with a height of 22 meters has a base area of ​​about 35 m². The viewing platform has an area of ​​around 60 m² and is surrounded by a wooden parapet. Due to the expected number of visitors, two separate staircases with 125 steps each were built, one for the ascent and one for the descent. Today only one staircase is accessible to the public. In the 1980s, the control room was acquired by the City of Vienna and completely renovated from 1990 to 1992. The staircase was covered with a glass construction. For the 130th anniversary in 2017, another renovation was carried out by the City of Vienna.

The control room is looked after by the Döblinger Naturfreunde and can be climbed from midday on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from May to October.

Broadcasting

Radio has been broadcast here regularly since 1953, and the Kahlenberg transmitter mast has been right next to the control room since 1956 . Between February 8th and April 21st, 1898 the Marine-Technische-Comité (MTC) of the Austro-Hungarian Navy carried out the first attempts with wireless telegraphy to the Votive Church from here. From 1953 to 1956 the control room itself served as a carrier for transmitting antennas for the ORF and was the location of the first VHF radio station. On August 1, 1955, provisional television operations began here as well as in Graz, Linz and Salzburg. On March 15, 1956, directional radio operations were started for three radio channels on the first west and south routes (Vienna-Salzburg-Innsbruck / Vienna-Klagenfurt), with the first stage initially going through the Anninger transmitter for both . On October 10, 1956, a 129 m high guyed lattice mast built next to the Stephaniewarte and the new transmitter building finally went into operation and on September 23, 1974 the current 165 m high guyed tubular mast was put into operation.

Web links

Commons : Kronprinzessin Stefanie-Warte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lt. Information board of the City of Vienna on site; viewed on May 5, 2018
  2. ↑ Stefaniewarte on wien.info/de
  3. ↑ a b c Control Office of the City of Vienna: Audit report for the 2001 financial year - Chapter: Magistratsabteilung 49, Forstverwaltung Lainz, safety-related observations regarding lookout points , p. 845 ( online version from p. 840–845 ; PDF; 115 kB)
  4. ^ Karl Baedeker (Firma): Austria, together with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad: Handbook for travelers ( Baedeker's guide books series ), 12th edition, Baedeker, 1929, p. 139
  5. ↑ Alexander Hecht: Funkgeschichte Österreichs (PDF; 80 kB), univie.ac.at/igl.geschichte, November 26, 2006
  6. ↑ Austria and the Age of Television - 1955–2005 - 50 Years of Television in Austria , Dampfradio, version of December 26, 2005
  7. ↑ Directional radio in Austria - first western and southern routes , steam radio , as of August 29, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 34.6 "  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 59.9"  E