Viennese the ferris wheel in the Viennese Prater is a well-known and much visited landmark of Vienna and was for some time the largest ferris wheel of the world.

History

It became 1896 the celebration 50. Throne anniversary emperor Franz Josephs Ith on the Prater area of English engineer walter B. Basset with 30 cars established and should be torn off 1916, to which it never came from shortage of money. 1938 were taken away Viennese the ferris wheel in the course of the expropriations designated of the national socialists as Arisierung from his original owner Eduard Steiner.

In the Second World War Viennese was destroyed the ferris wheel by fires and bombs nearly completely and burned 1944 out. In the same year Eduard Steiner in Auschwitz was murdered. Together with the reconstruction of the city Vienna also the ferris wheel was again developed starting from 1945 and could be opened in the year 1947 - however only with half of the cars - again. Also today one still sees that each second arm at the ferris wheel is empty and carries it now altogether 15 cars.

Data and facts

Viennese the ferris wheel has a diameter of 60.96 meters and the highest point of the ferris wheel is 64.75 meters over the soil. The weight of the rotary construction amounts to 244.85 t and the total weight of all iron constructions 430.05 t. The axle of the ferris wheel is 10.78 m long, has a diameter of 0,5 m and weighs 16.3 t. The speed of the ferris wheel amounts to maximally 2.7 kilometers per hour.

Other one

Viennese the ferris wheel was in the process of his history also place for waghalsige actions: thus the ringmaster madame turned so long D `Atalide in the year 1914 for a film sitting on a horse a round on the roof of a car of the Viennese of ferris wheel.

Into film history came Viennese the ferris wheel at the latest by a longer sequence in "“the third man"” (1949, direction: Carol Reed), with Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten as actors.

Related links

• www.wienerriesenrad.com Viennese the ferris wheel
• www.structurae.de chronicle & data
• www.no-racism.net ferris wheel - monument of the "“Arisierung"”

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