Weißwasser (municipality of Weyer)

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Weißwasser ( Scattered Houses )
Weißwasser (municipality of Weyer) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Steyr-Land  (SE), Upper Austria
Judicial district Steyr
Pole. local community Weyer   ( KG  Laussa )
Locality Unterlaussa
Coordinates 47 ° 45 '22 "  N , 14 ° 31' 50"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '22 "  N , 14 ° 31' 50"  E
height 670  m above sea level A.
Building status 8 (addresses 2018 f1)
Post Code 8934 Weyer
Statistical identification
Counting district / district Pichl - After d . Enns - Laussa (41 522 003)
Mooshöhe and surrounding alpine pastures;
former locality until 2009 (Occ. 12018; former ZSP 41519 001 von Weyer Land )
Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS ; UBA
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Weißwasser is a former miners' settlement in the Reichraminger Hintergebirge and a district of Weyer , Upper Austria.

geography

The Weisswasser area is located north of the small town of Unterlaussa , in the area of ​​the Schwarzen Bach (also called Weißwasser), the Mooshöhe and the Leerensackbach (Larensackbach) . Today only the Mooshöhe is permanently settled.

history

The place lived mainly from bauxite mining , which had already ceased and was reactivated in the Präfing mining area (near Blahberg) and in the grass mining area during World War II. The aircraft industry required enormous amounts of the raw material for aluminum. In addition to the miners' settlement, a material ropeway was also built to the Weißenbach-Sankt Gallen railway station 14 kilometers away on the Rudolfsbahn , from where the bauxite was transported to the Mattigwerk in Ranshofen.

This material ropeway, which went into operation in August 1944, had a total of 89 supports and its total network was 18 kilometers. The cable car was built by the Leipzig company Bleichert-Transportanlagen GmbH , with the cable car hunte being fitted with Zenith couplings. Two sections in Unterlaussa were driven by a three-phase motor with 64 kW, the third in Weißwasser with 44 kW. At the end of the sector the dogs were automatically released from the pulling rope and passed on to the next section.

The mining industry with up to 130 employees closed in 1964 with the constant drop in prices on the international raw material market, all facilities were dismantled and the settlement was subsequently abandoned. The remains of the miner's house were removed in 1998 as part of the Upper Austrian state exhibition in 1998, Land der Hämmer - Eisenwurzen, and faithfully rebuilt in the local area of ​​Unterlaussa. Since then, the miner's house has housed a mining museum and the former mining area is now in the Kalkalpen National Park .

The route of the Reichraming Forest Railway, which was closed in 1971, was opened to Weißwasser from the north, from the Reichramingbach . Today the Hintergebirgsradweg runs along the old route .

At the beginning of the 2000s, the settlement was still run as a separate village with 9 inhabitants at the time, that was the Mooshöhe houses and the surrounding alpine pastures. On the occasion of the amalgamation of Weyer-Markt and Weyer-Land in 2007, the village was abolished as an administrative unit in 2009.

literature

  • Otto Harant, Wolfgang Heitzmann: Reichraminger Hintergebirge. Forgotten mountain home between Ennstal and Sengsengebirge , Steyr 1984, p. OA
  • Land of hammers. Homeland Eisenwurzen. Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen region. , Catalog of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 1998. Edited by Julius Stieber . Salzburg 1998, p. OA
  • Josef Weichenberger: The former mining in the area of ​​the Kalkalpen National Park. Unpublished Manuscript, Leonstein / Linz 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Removed with Statistics Austria: List of places. Issued July 9, 2009; Information according to the Federal Environment Agency: List of amendments - 2162: Austrian localities. 14th