The unique nature and universal value of ’s water management system and water art are based Hydraulic Engineering and on the complete and comprehensive documentation Water Power, Drinking Water of water technology and related architecture and art covering more than six centuries, including canals and Decorative Fountains (above, left) and the water towers and fountain masters’ houses of the waterworks at Rotes Tor (Red Gate) in Augsburg (above, right). The waterworks dating from 1879 (below, left) and the three monumental fountains can also be included among the technological and architectural Photo documentation monuments of the water management system, as well as the early hydroelectric power stations. supporting the city of Augsburg’s expression of interest

| 1 | Left: At both the beginning and end of the canal system there is a Right: In the Lech region the canals have powered grain mills and technological wonder. Near the Hochablass, built in 1911, which diverts hammer mills since the Middle Ages (first documented in 1276). They the water from the Lech into the canal network, the waterworks at have also served as transport routes and have been used for waste Hochablass (above) were built in 1879. Where the and the removal. The city’s drinking water comes from clean streams and was linked canals flow into the Lech, the hydroelectric power station at supplied via parallel canal beds. The canals from the Lech, Wertach Wolfzahnau (below) has been generating electricity since 1902. and were instrumental in the industrialization of Augsburg.

| 2 | Above: The clean Brunnenbach was diverted to the waterworks at Rotes Below: Until 1879 seven waterworks with a total of nine water towers Tor, built from 1416 onwards. The Große Wasserturm (large water provided Augsburg with running water. Besides the three towers for tower) and Kleine Wasserturm (small water tower) (above, right) and the waterworks at Rotes Tor, the Untere Brunnenturm at Mauerberg the Kastenturm (box tower) provided Augsburg with running water (below, left), in use since around 1500, and the Untere St.-Jakobs- until 1879. Hydro-technology models and instruction panels were used Wasserturm constructed by Elias Holl in 1609 have also survived. The by Augsburg’s fountain masters to train up employees: their technical “Fountain Lad” designed by Adriaen de Vries served as the outlet tap expertise is today documented in several archives and collections. for the Kastenturm.

| 3 | Above: From 1588 onwards the Free City’s first monumental fountain Below: The emperor on the column of the Augustus Fountain (below, was built; it was designed by Hubert Gerhard, who had been trained left) represents the Romans, who founded Augsburg in the area of land by Giambologna. It was officially brought into use in 1594. At the edge between the Lech and the Wertach. The Mercury Fountain (center) and of the fountain there are four river gods which personify the Augsburg the Hercules Fountain were completed by Adriaen de Vries in 1599 and waterways (clockwise from top left): the Lech - navigable by ship and 1600 respectively. This globally unique triad of fountains is used to flanked by forests, the Singold - powering the mills, the Brunnenbach - decorate Augsburg’s central road axis. These three Mannerist-style provider of clean drinking water and the Wertach - abundant in fish. fountains are European masterpieces.

| 4 | The waterworks at the Hochablass (above, right) and early hydroelectric power stations are monuments to the industrialization and engineering skills in Augsburg. In 1879 the air-pressure chambers of the waterworks were an innovation that received attention from all over Europe (above, left). The hydroelectric power station at Wolfzahnau (above, right) gene- rated electricity for a textile factory from 1902. Its flywheel generator, standing at a height of more than five meters and dating from 1913 (second row, left) has also been preserved, as have the machine workings from the waterworks on the Wertach canal built in 1921. In 1899 the Lech canal (left) began to be dug in the north of Augsburg, where the first hydroelectric power station (below, left) was brought into operation in Gersthofen in 1901, with a second in Langweid in 1907. The turbine chamber (below, right) has been preserved in the Historicist-style building in Langweid as a technical monument that can be walked through. Design: context verlag Augsburg, Photography: Thomas Baumgartner (3), Baumgartner Thomas Photography: Augsburg, verlag Design: context Martin Kluger (8), Kleiner (13), B. Wolfgang (4), Hajo Dietz/Nürnberg Luftbild (1) Augsburg/Walter (1), Stadtwerke Augsburg/Brücklmair Maximilian Museum

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