Wienerberg water reservoir
The Wienerberg water reservoir on Triester Strasse in the 10th district of Favoriten was built together with the Rosenhügel, Laaerberg and Schmelz reservoirs as part of Vienna's water supply with drinking water from the 1st Viennese spring water pipeline .
On the area opposite the Spinnerin am Kreuz and the later George-Washington-Hof , after the water tank, the Favoriten water tower with the outbuildings necessary for operation was built.
Water tank
The water reservoir at Triester Straße 83 was built in 1873. Guide walls were erected between the massive pillars with groin vaults in order to ensure that the container chamber was continuously flushed.
The districts of Innere Stadt , Wieden , Margareten and Mariahilf are supplied with mountain spring water by around 130,000 people from the Wienerberg water reservoir .
Since the renovation work in 2012, there has been a freely accessible water adventure trail and a water playground on the newly designed tank ceiling, and the water school in the former power station building supplements the offer for school classes. Another novelty of the Viennese water tanks is the viewing window, which allows a view of the inside of the tank from the valve chamber, which is otherwise strictly prohibited for safety reasons.
Valve chamber
The valve chamber, the inlet structure of the Wienerberg water tank, faces west towards Triester Straße. The single-storey building with a flat roof with a representative house facade and massive neo-renaissance forms, like the water tower, is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict .
Container chambers
Between autumn 2008 and 2010, the two container chambers, 170 × 60 meters in size and covered with earth, which previously offered around 30,000 cubic meters of mountain spring water, are to be demolished and replaced by new chambers according to the " tub-in-tub system ". In the course of this work, for which around 12.5 million euros were estimated, the storage capacity is to be increased to 41,500 cubic meters.
New transport pipes with a diameter of up to one meter were laid in the spring of 2008.
With the previous brick construction of the tank, whose ribbed vault is supported by stone columns, the water level must not rise above the column heads. This height restriction does not apply to the reinforced concrete construction of the new container and, together with the slimmer columns, enables the storage volume to be increased.
Elevator
In order to achieve the necessary water pressure to supply the upper floors of houses in Vienna's 10th and 12th district, water was only released from the Rosenhügel reservoir at 244 meters above sea level to those houses whose carriageway level was a maximum of 214.5 meters above sea level and so on the water pressure up to the Bassenas reached a maximum of 30 meters above street level.
The increasing construction finally made the construction of the Favoritner water tower with a water level 270.8 meters above sea level necessary in order to be able to supply those buildings with drinking water that were above the height of 214 meters.
The plans for the lift were drawn up by the Vienna City Building Authority. The master builder work was entrusted to the builder A. Schumacher. The company FX Komarek from Vienna was responsible for the mechanical equipment and the iron roof construction .
Valve gate
In the valve house erected on the east side of the water reservoir, the two pipelines that led from the two tank chambers combined to form a single pipe string that led to the machine and boiler house. Sliders allow water to be withdrawn from one of the two chambers or from both at the same time.
Machine and boiler house
The structure, which is structured by pilaster strips and equipped with round arched iron lattice windows, was built using exposed brick. The machine and boiler house was equipped with two machine groups with 45 hp each and offered a third place. Two Galloway boilers, each with a heating surface of 52 square meters, were used to generate steam. The pumps were coupled to the piston rods of two compound steam engines with 45 HP each and were supposed to lift 65 liters per second over a delivery height of around 33 meters into the water tank in the water tower of the Favoritner water tower, which corresponded to an output of 5,382 cubic meters in 23 hours .
Cooling system
After flowing through a basin that served as an oil separator, the cooling water was pumped to a height of five meters. The cooling tower was a four-storey facility based on the Komarek system. Using corrugated iron, the water was made into fine threads, which were cooled by the ambient air and the heat of evaporation.
chimney
The chimney was built on a square base with sides 4.15 meters and a foundation depth of 5.15 meters. The height of the chimney was 36 meters with an inside diameter of 1.4 meters at the base and 0.9 meters at the top. It is not known when the chimney was stopped.
Water tower favorites
The Favoriten water tower is 67 meters high and has two water tanks made of sheet steel with a capacity of 1,000 cubic meters of drinking water inside. The water tower and the pumping station lost their purpose with the commissioning of the Second Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline in 1910.
Residential building
The single-storey residential building with five apartments, including the attic and cellar rooms for the operating staff, was built, like the entire complex, using exposed brick. The original residential building for the employees, which was built at the east end of the facility at the reversing loop of tram line 1 at Stefan-Fadinger-Platz, was placed under monument protection on April 1, 2007 ( list entry ).
Weighing house
The weighing house with the weighbridge was primarily used to check the amount of coal delivered.
Power station house
The power station is located at the intersection of Triester Straße and Raxstraße . It was built as a water pipeline power plant that was in operation between 1915 and 1971. After several years of use as a storage room, the building was adapted to meet the needs of the water school and opened in autumn 2005.
literature
- The waterworks of the Viennese high spring pipeline in the 10th district (Favoriten), communicated by Ms. Borkowitz, building inspector of the city building office . Reprint from the magazine des Oesterr. Engineers and Architects Association, 1900, No. 4, Vienna 1900, self-published by the author.
- The water supply as well as the systems of the municipal electricity works, the Vienna river regulation, the main collecting canals, the light rail and the regulation of the Danube Canal in Vienna - on behalf of the Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger . edited by the Vienna City Building Authority, self-published by the Vienna City Council, Vienna 1901.
- DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Water tower water playground ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/wien/stadtleben/263910_Neue-Wanne-in-der-Wanne.html
- ^ Ordinance of the Federal Monuments Office regarding the 10th district of Vienna - Favoriten. April 1, 2007, accessed January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/vtx/vtx-rk-xlink?SEITE=%2F2005%2F0901%2F011.html
Web links
- About the new container construction
- ORF announcement about the plans
- Machine construction company FX Komarek
- Viennese water school
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 12.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 3.4 ″ E