Guard houses on the Semmering Railway
This list leads the guard houses on the Semmering Railway in their order from Gloggnitz station to Mürzzuschlag station. The railway line, built from 1848 to 1854, was accompanied by a total of 55 guard houses, 47 of which are still preserved. Most of the guard houses are owned by the Austrian Federal Railways and, along with the line itself, are under monument protection and are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Semmering Railway.
The guard houses were erected as two-story stone buildings within sight. They served the railway guard and his family as a place of work and residence. The guard houses have long since lost their operational functions; today they are used as residential and weekend houses, and quite a few are empty. In some cases there is no connection to public infrastructure such as water, electricity and road networks.
architecture
The architect Moritz von Loehr , who has been in the service of the Imperial and Royal State Railway since 1842 and has been entrusted with handling the structural engineering of the entire state railway network from 1848 , was responsible for the buildings of the Semmering Railway, including the guard houses. He was assisted by the Imperial and Royal Senior Engineer and Head of the Building Construction Department at Semmering, Johann Salzmann , who, together with the Imperial and Royal Engineer I. Classe Franz Czerwenka, was responsible for the on-site construction project.
Wilhelm von Flattich , sometimes mistakenly named as the architect of the guard houses , did not join the Southern State Railroad until 1855, which later became the Southern Railway Company .
The guard houses and station buildings along the Semmering Railway are sober functional buildings with little decoration. A large part of the guard houses is made of exposed stone masonry. Its simple, two-story, cubic shape with a saddle roof and the varying square or round gable windows are characteristic. Decorative elements are scarce: brick overlays over windows and doors, brick rosettes around the gable windows, details on the chimney heads, ornate rafter and purlin heads . The aim was " to burden the monitoring and maintenance of the buildings with the lowest possible loads " ( Martin Gschwandtner, 2001 :). The size of the guard houses is quite uniform, it is 10.67 × 8.60 m with a fluctuation width of only 10 cm in both directions.
With their uniform style, the guard houses are forerunners of the standards set in the building construction norms in 1856 , which ensured a corporate design for the railway buildings.
In the course of time, some houses were structurally changed slightly (e.g. number of windows) or plastered.
numbering
Originally the guard houses from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag were numbered from 1 to 55 in ascending order. From 1881 the numbering from 120 to 202, which is still used today, was introduced; it also lists other high-rise buildings starting in Vienna, resulting in several gaps in the numbering of the guard houses.
List of guard houses
The kilometers in the following list are the official kilometers of the southern railway line , the information on the left and right should be understood in the sense of a journey from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag.
| photo | Building | km | Location | description | Metadata |
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Guard house WH 120 |
75.43 km |
Gloggnitz location |
WH 120 stood in the area of the Gloggnitz train station and was demolished. | Name: Wächterhaus WH 120 GstNr .: .168 |
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Guard house WH 123 ObjectID : 24736 |
76.26 km |
Obere Zeilfeldstraße 2 Gloggnitz location |
WH 123 was demolished on May 11, 2013 after detailed construction documentation for the Semmering Base Tunnel . |
ObjectID : 24736 Name: Wächterhaus WH 123 GstNr .: 629/3 |
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Guard house WH 124 ObjectID : 24740 |
77.15 km |
Rehgraben 36 Prigglitz location |
ObjectID : 24740 Name: Wächterhaus WH 124 GstNr .: .131 |
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Guard house WH 125 ObjectID : 24740 |
77.50 km |
Rehgraben 37 Prigglitz location |
ObjectID : 24740 Name: Wächterhaus WH 125 GstNr .: .130 |
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Guard house WH 126 ObjectID : 24743 |
78.08 km |
Leo-Dragan-Straße 2 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24743 Name: Wächterhaus WH 126 GstNr .: .40 |
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Guard house WH 127 ObjectID : 24743 |
79.10 km |
Schmidsdorf 21 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24743 Name: Wächterhaus WH 127 GstNr .: .41 |
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Guard house WH 128 ObjectID : 24745 |
79.93 km |
Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24745 Name: Wächterhaus WH 128 GstNr .: 139 |
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Guard house WH 129 ObjectID : 24745 |
80.87 km |
Lindengasse 11 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24745 Name: Wächterhaus WH 129 GstNr .: .79 |
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Guard house WH 132 ObjectID : 24745 |
82.10 km |
Bahnhofplatz 3 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24745 Name : Wächterhaus WH 132 GstNr .: .72 Watchman's house 132 |
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Guard house WH 133 |
83.18 km |
Karl-Feldbacher-Straße 10 Payerbach location |
Name: Wächterhaus WH 133 GstNr .: .71 |
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Guard house WH 134 ObjectID : 24745 |
83.63 km |
Weinwegiedlung 16 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24745 Name: Wächterhaus WH 134 GstNr .: .70 |
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Guard house WH 136 ObjectID : 24753 |
84.69 km |
Bahngasse 1 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24753 Name: Wächterhaus WH 136 GstNr .: .23 |
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Guard house WH 137 ObjectID : 24753 |
85.51 km |
Küb 14 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24753 Name: Wächterhaus WH 137 GstNr .: .22 |
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Guard house WH 138 ObjectID : 24754 |
85.98 km |
Hellgraben-Straße 12 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24754 Name: Wächterhaus WH 138 GstNr .: .21 |
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Guard house WH 139 ObjectID : 24754 |
86.45 km |
Pettenbach 16 Payerbach location |
ObjectID : 24754 Name: Wächterhaus WH 139 GstNr .: .22 |
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Guard house WH 140 ObjectID : 24756 |
87.16 km |
Eichberg 35 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24756 Name: Wächterhaus WH 140 GstNr .: .4 |
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Guard house WH 141 ObjectID : 24755 |
87.94 km |
Eichberg 34 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24755 Name: Wächterhaus WH 141 GstNr .: .36 |
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Guard house WH 144 ObjectID : 24755 |
88.88 km |
Gloggnitz location |
Note: Lt. Source aborted, protected according to BDA. |
ObjectID : 24755 Name: Wächterhaus WH 144 GstNr .: .39 |
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Guard house WH 146 ObjectID : 24755 |
89.43 km |
Eichberg 31 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24755 Name: Wächterhaus WH 146 GstNr .: .42 |
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Guard house WH 147 ObjectID : 24771 |
90.47 km |
Aue 36 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24771 Name: Wächterhaus WH 147 GstNr .: .51 |
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Guard house WH 148 ObjectID : 24771 |
91.12 km |
Aue 37 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24771 Name: Wächterhaus WH 148 GstNr .: .52 |
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Guard house WH 150 ObjectID : 24771 |
91.91 km |
Aue 38 Gloggnitz location |
ObjectID : 24771 Name: Wächterhaus WH 150 GstNr .: .54 |
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Guard house WH 153 ObjectID : 24772 |
92.73 km |
Deiningerweg 11 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 153 GstNr .: .123 |
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Guard house WH 154 ObjectID : 24772 |
93.17 km |
Musikweg 16 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 154 GstNr .: .119 |
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Guard house WH 155 ObjectID : 24772 |
93.78 km |
Rumplerstraße 23 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 155 GstNr .: .118 |
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Guard house WH 156 ObjectID : 24772 |
94.23 km |
Pfefferstraße 38 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 156 GstNr .: .117 |
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Guard house WH 157 ObjectID : 24772 |
95.02 km |
Pfefferstraße 51 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 157 GstNr .: 427/14 |
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Guard house WH 158 ObjectID : 24772 |
95.55 km |
Blue incision 10 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 158 GstNr .: .115 |
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Guard house WH 159 |
95.89 km |
Breitenstein location |
There is a demolition plan for WH 159 from May 6, 1960. | Name: Wächterhaus WH 159 GstNr .: .146 |
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Guard house WH 160 |
96.77 km |
Untere Bahnstrasse 37 Breitenstein location |
Name: Wächterhaus WH 160 GstNr .: .144 |
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Guard house WH 161 ObjectID : 24772 |
97.10 km |
Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 161 GstNr .: .114 |
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Guard house WH 164 ObjectID : 24772 |
97.73 km |
Hauptstrasse 25 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name : Wächterhaus WH 164 GstNr .: .141 Bahnhof Breitenstein |
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Guard house WH 167 ObjectID : 24772 |
98.92 km |
Kalte-Rinne-Straße 45 Breitenstein location |
The Ghega Museum is located in the restored railway keeper's house. |
ObjectID : 24772 Name : Wächterhaus WH 167 GstNr .: 1006/3 Ghega-Museum |
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Guard house WH 168 ObjectID : 24772 |
99.55 km |
Kalte-Rinne-Straße 41 Breitenstein location |
ObjectID : 24772 Name: Wächterhaus WH 168 GstNr .: .136 |
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Guard house WH 170 ObjectID : 24773 |
100.70 km |
Semmering 17 Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 170 GstNr .: .155 |
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Guard house WH 171 ObjectID : 24773 |
101.08 km |
Semmering 18 Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 171 GstNr .: .156 |
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Guard house WH 172 ObjectID : 24773 |
101.55 km |
Semmering 15 Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 172 GstNr .: .154 |
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Guard house WH 173 ObjectID : 24773 |
102.10 km |
Semmering 14 Semmering location |
The guard house is now used as the Wolfsbergkogel train station. |
ObjectID : 24773 Name : Wächterhaus WH 173 GstNr .: .151 Wolfsbergkogel station |
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Guard house WH 176 ObjectID : 24773 |
102.94 km |
Semmering 19 Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 176 GstNr .: .158 |
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Guard house WH 179 ObjectID : 24773 |
Semmering location see description |
The WH 179 on the left was demolished in 1870 and replaced by a station building on the opposite side. The exact location is unknown. |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 179 GstNr .: |
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Guard house WH 180 ObjectID : 24773 |
103.55 km |
Semmering 128 Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24773 Name: Wächterhaus WH 180 GstNr .: .162 |
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Guard house WH 183 ObjectID : 24867 |
105.10 km |
Alte Reichsstraße 10 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24867 Name: Wächterhaus WH 183 GstNr .: .9 |
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Guard house WH 184 ObjectID : 24867 |
106.07 km |
Alte Reichsstraße 1 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24867 Name : Wächterhaus WH 184 GstNr .: .12 / 2 |
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Guard house WH 185 ObjectID : 24867 |
106.81 km |
Steinhaus 28 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24867 Name : Wächterhaus WH 185 GstNr .: .13 / 3 |
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Guard house WH 186 ObjectID : 24867 |
107.69 km |
Steinhaus 7 Spital at the Semmering location |
The original WH 186 was rebuilt and expanded in two steps from 1884 and from 1907 into the three-storey reception building that still exists today. |
ObjectID : 24867 Name : Wächterhaus WH 186 GstNr .: Steinhaus station |
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Guard house WH 187 ObjectID : 24867 |
108.26 km |
Bundesstrasse 1 Spital at the Semmering site |
ObjectID : 24867 Name: Wächterhaus WH 187 GstNr .: .29 |
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Guard house WH 188 ObjectID : 24867 |
108.96 km |
Jauern 6 Spital at the Semmering site |
ObjectID : 24867 Name: Wächterhaus WH 188 GstNr .: .25 |
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Guard house WH 189 ObjectID : 24867 |
109.71 km |
Kampalpenweg 1 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 24867 Name : Wächterhaus WH 189 GstNr .: .22 / 1 |
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Guard house WH 192 ObjectID : 9747 |
110.59 km |
Obere Bahnstrasse 2 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 9747 Name : Wächterhaus WH 192 GstNr .: .65 / 2 Spital am Semmering station |
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Guard house WH 195 ObjectID : 9747 |
111.60 km |
Grautschenhof 1 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 9747 Name : Wächterhaus WH 195 GstNr .: .101 / 2 |
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Guard house WH 196 ObjectID : 9747 |
112.30 km |
Grautschenhof 6 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID : 9747 Name : Wächterhaus WH 196 GstNr .: .108 / 1 |
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Guard house WH 197 ObjectID: 9754 |
113.07 km |
Grautschenhof 31 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID: 9754 Name: Wächterhaus WH 197 GstNr .: .19 / 2 |
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Guard house WH 198 ObjectID: 9754 |
113.81 km |
Edlachweg 1 Spital at the Semmering location |
ObjectID: 9754 Name: Wächterhaus WH 198 GstNr .: .24 / 2 |
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Guard house WH 200 ObjectID : 9764 |
114.68 km |
Scheedgraben 1 Mürzzuschlag location |
ObjectID : 9764 Name: Wächterhaus WH 200 GstNr .: .936 |
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Guard house WH 202 |
115.69 km |
Railway facility 202 Mürzzuschlag location |
Name: Wächterhaus WH 202 GstNr .: .75 |
literature
- Roland Tusch: Guard houses on the Semmering Railway . Studienverlag Innsbruck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5381-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mihály Kubinszky / Hans Peter Pawlik / Josef Otto Slezak : Architecture on the Semmering Railway. Beautiful landscape - beautiful buildings - beautiful locomotives . Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85416-156-5 , p. 98 .
- ↑ quoted from Roland Tusch
- ^ Roland Tusch: Guard houses on the Semmering Railway . Studienverlag Innsbruck, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7065-5381-0 , p. 196 .
- ↑ The 1st and only GHEGA MUSEUM. July 22, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
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