Mönchsberg water tower

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Water tower next to the Museum der Moderne

The water tower on the Mönchsberg (since 2014 Amalie-Redlich-Turm ) is a tower built between 1891 and 1892 on the Mönchsberg near Salzburg.

history

The banker Karl Leitner had built an electric elevator and the "electric elevator restoration" on the Mönchsberg. In addition, he had the architect Karl Demel build a water tower in the manner of a knight's castle. This should supply the houses that he wanted to build along the eastern Mönchsbergkante with water. An actually built water pipe from Gaisberg should guarantee the appropriate water pressure. The water tank was removed as part of the renovation of the tower. In addition, the tower served as a lookout tower for the users of the Mönchsberg lift, the panorama was a special attraction. Leitner had a street built over the Müllner Schanze up to the Mönchsberg, but the planned villa district was not implemented. The coats of arms attached to the tower for decoration were acquired in the art trade.

During the time of Café Winkler on Mönchsberg, the water tower served as a staff building.

Today he is included in the concept of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg on the Mönchsberg. For this purpose, the city of Salzburg left the somewhat dilapidated tower to the state in 2007. The tower was adapted and there were rooms for Art Education and Artist-in-Residence - Studio built. This was made possible by a donation from Georg Jorisch (1928 in Vienna - 2012 in Quebec), the grandson of Amalie Redlich (1868 in Budapest - 1941 in Łódź ). Amalie Redlich was the legal owner of the painting Litzlberg am Attersee (1915) by Gustav Klimt , which was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1941, was in the holdings of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and was restituted in 2011 . In 2014, in memory of Amalie Redlich, the water tower was renamed the Amalie Redlich Tower.

Next to the tower is an inconspicuous building, the broadcasting house of the Radio-Verkehrs-AG ( RAVAG ) for the first radio operation in Salzburg from 1930. From this transmitter the choir of the Trappfamily was recorded and broadcast for the first time. In addition, on May 4, 1945, the radio speech of the Salzburg combat commandant Colonel Hans Lepperdinger was broadcast from here, who offered Salzburg to the Americans for voluntary surrender and thus saved the city from destruction.

  • Mönchsberg water tower

  • Water tower: west view

  • Transmitter house from 1930 next to the water tower

  • Moenchsberg water tower 2017

literature

  • Christian F. Uhlir (Ed.): Salzburg City Mountains. Mönchsberg - Kapuzinerberg - Festungsberg - Nonnberg - Rainberg. Winterwork, Salzburg 2012 ISBN 978-3-86468-033-5
  • Hedwig Weiss: The dining room in Mönchstein Castle. Salzburg Archive, 20 = series of publications by the Friends of Salzburg History Association, Salzburg 1995, pp. 269–302

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm Mönchsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Georg Jorisch , in Canada since 1957, on the background of the rededication of the tower in the name of his grandmother, in "NU. Jüdisches Magazin für Politik und Kultur," Vol. 45, Vienna 2011, p. 22

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amalie Redlich Tower. Museum der Moderne Salzburg, accessed on October 14, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '4.1 "  N , 13 ° 2' 17.4"  E