Aquädukt

3D Model

Model of an aqueduct at the Kaiserbrunn Water Pipeline Museum in Reichenau an der Rax.

During the construction of the 95-kilometer-long I. Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline, it was decided to construct a gravity pipeline (water runs from a higher starting point to a lower end point) due to the topography and the state of the art at the time (only small pipelines). The valley crossings therefore had to be overcome along the route of the high spring pipeline with 30 aqueducts. There are aqueducts made of brick or stone, depending on the material available at the respective locations. They were built between 1870 and 1873 and since then this aqueduct and a later aqueduct (1910) have supplied the city of Vienna with high spring water from springs in the Rax and Schneeberg regions in southern Lower Austria and Styria.