Waterworks at Rotes Tor

General:

• Plant with three historic water towers, outbuildings and courtyard
• Augsburg, city center, Lechviertel - Eastern Ulrichsviertel; At the Red Gate 1
• Remodeling, additions and superstructures from 1416 to the 19th century, use until 1879

Large Water Tower:

• from 1416 by well master Hans Felber in wood
• bricked in 1463
• Increase 1669
• Construction and interior work 1764 by fountain master Caspar Walter
• Original Instruction Painting 1753
• Underflowed from the channel of the front Lech
• square base on the walls of a medieval fortified tower
• with corner stucco
• octagonal attachment with transverse oval openings and final balustrade
• pressure head approx. 29 m

Small Water Tower:

• Built in 1470
• Increase in 1599 and 1672
• 1672 and 1744 interior fittings
• Spiral staircase 1744
• six instructional paintings 1753
• Stuccoed vaulted ceiling 1672 preserved
• four-storey square base
• on the walls of a medieval defense tower
• with northeastern longwall
• two-storey, hexagonal attachment with plaster structure and hood
• pressure head around 1750: 24.8m
• Pressure head around 1817: 29m

Box Tower:

• Built in 1599 on a former defense tower
• 1703 balustrade
• 1742 interior fittings
• on the east side of the Heilig-Geist-Spital, a semicircular foundation built on the city wall
• hexagonal construction with balustrade
• double spiral staircase inside 1742

Aqueduct:

• over the Red Torwall ditch with viaduct (bridge function)
• 1777 two-storey brick in brick to six double arches (above traffic route to the city gate, down the water pipe)

Upper and Lower fountain master’s house

• two-storey mansard roof construction with dwarf house and two-storey hipped roof construction
• former official residence and workshop of the well master and warehouse
• in the core 17th century
• external appearance 18th century

• Waterworks took over the drinking water supply of the city of Augsburg for about 460 years (1416-1879)
• Integration of the individual buildings into a functional unit, including use of the yard
• Waterworks at Rotes Tor as the largest waterworks of the imperial city Augsburg, thereby central role in the water system
  • Supplying the public tube boxes and later the private house connections, thus humanitarian or social component
  • Ongoing modifications and efficiency improvements of the well works
  • Constant development of the centuries-old system from the medieval-early modern to a proto-industrial scale and thus adaptation for an increased water supply
  • Demonstration, dissemination and communication of technical developments (see Model Chamber of the Maximilian Museum and publications in the city archive)
• content related to the three monumental fountains (see Box Tower)
• thematically related to waterworks at the Vogeltor and the Domviertel (supplemented urban water supply until 1879)
• predecessor of the drinking water works at the Hochablass (from 1879)

• Restoration 1972-1975
• Total renovation 2005-2010
• Today's figure of 1604
• today used as a cultural park (including the Swabian Craft Museum, open-air stage)
• technical equipment and wooden pump houses not received
• Most of the documents and models are in the possession of the Municipal Archive and the Municipal Art Collections and Museums
• oldest existing waterworks in Germany and Central Europe (highest water towers of their time)
• Technical solutions influenced by developments from across Europe and further developed in Augsburg
• singular ensemble