WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF AUGSBURG General plan and tours to UNESCO World Heritage Site
4 maps incl. GPS tracks WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF AUGSBURG – UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE SINCE 2019 Water makes 2000 years of water history history. Past. Present. Future.
The Water Management System of Augsburg comprises a unit of 22 elements and 29 Lech canals represents an urban water landscape and water management that is over 800 years old. It is unparalleled in terms of its surviving 40 Hydropower successive technical diversity. Thus the plants outstanding universal value which constitutes the uniqueness of the Water Management 200 km System of Augsburg is described. It stands for of water courses the responsible way the Augsburg population deals with the precious commodity of water and the associated technical innovations.
This includes above all the strict separation of drinking and process water at an early stage. 1 Olympic The reason was the awareness that pure spring canoe course water from the city forest is very important for our health. The Augsburg fountain masters developed pump systems which also supplied those parts of the city situated at slightly higher altitudes. These and other groundbreaking technical innovations were implemented 530 bridges in Augsburg and aroused great interest internationally. The 22 elements are a vivid testimony to the continuous and successful Water Management System of Augsburg which 22 drinking water fountains has existed since the Middle Ages. UNIQUE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Waterworks 4 at Rotes Tor The ensemble of the three water towers is probably the oldest known The 22 elements of the Water waterworks in Central Europe. It has supplied the Management System of Augsburg city with drinking water since 1416. Throughout The system which combines nature, technology, economic Europe, its pumping systems were admired technical management and art is of great significance for the development installations and survived of the city. Its task was to: for more than four and a half • Supply the city with essential drinking water centuries until 1880. • Supply the city with process water for energy, hygiene and disposal • Strictly separate drinking and process water Today the continued existence of the Water System reminds us that it is important to use natural resources sustainably.
Hochablass (Lech weir) 1 The Hochablass has been associated since time with the start of hydropower utilisation in Augsburg. The water for most of the canals in the city is diverted at this weir system. The current construction dates back to 1911/12.
Lech canals Lower waterworks 2 The canals have been supplying 5 The Lower waterworks constructed energy for more than 1000 years. They around 1500 is the second largest and were mentioned for the first time in second oldest drinking waterworks. It 1276. They were indispensable for consists of the Lower water tower, the supplying water to the many handicraft Pump house and a water crossing in businesses, which powered their which today the inner city moat flows machines with water wheels, and later above the Stadtbach canal. for generating electricity.
Galgenablass (culvert) Waterworks 3 The Galgenablass is 6 at Vogeltor the most important water The third waterworks was crossing in the city forest. constructed in 1538 at This culvert separates the city walls beside the spring water and water from Vogeltor. Its primary purpose the River Lech (= drinking was to supply the Lech and process water). This district with drinking water. Augsburg achievement is In 1774 a fortified tower was still on display here today. repurposed to create a water tower which made the works larger and more efficient. Augustus Fountain 7 The three monumental fountains with their bronze figures are the artistic highlight of the water system. Hubert Gerhard created the first one in 1594. The city’s founder Augustus stands in the middle as a peacemaking emperor and the four river gods symbolise the main water courses of Augsburg: Lech, Wertach and Singold as well as the Brunnenbach created artificially for drinking water.
Mercury Fountain 8 The fountain was constructed Waterworks by Adriaen de Vries in 1599. The 11 at Hochablass bronze group on the pillar in the basin The new waterworks heralded the represents Mercury and at his feet age of modern water supply in 1879/80 Amor, who is removing the God of in Augsburg. Groundwater replaced Trade’s sandals. This symbolises the spring water and for the first time desire and the certainty that Mercury pressure tanks superseded the old would remain in Augsburg and keep water towers. This established new flourishing trade and therefore wealth hygienic and technical standards for in the city. supplying a city with drinking water.
Hercules Fountain Power plant at the Stadtbach 9 Like the other two, the Hercules Fountain created 12 The first Augsburg power plants by Adriaen de Vries in 1602 symbolises Augsburg’s started up factory machines directly pride in its abundance of water. The hero Hercules in transmission mode. Since 1873, the fights against Hydra, a water monster with several power plant at Stadtbach had served heads. He stands for overcoming the dangers posed the cotton mill, at the time the largest by water, the three nymphs or graces symbolise the spinning mill in Germany. good and beautiful aspects of water.
Stadtmetzg Power plant 10 The building was constructed 13 at the Fabrikkanal in 1609 by Elias Holl. The unique thing The power plant was put about it was its innovative use of canal into operation in 1885 by the water: The Western Lech (canal) was Göggingen doubling mill and fed through the Stadtmetzg to cool the thread factory. The Fabrikkanal meat and dispose of the waste. fed by the River Wertach was created specifically for this purpose. In 1907 new turbines were installed; the plant is still in operation today. Power plant at the Singold Power plant Langweid 14 The small power plant has been in 18 This second power plant at the Lech Canal continuous operation since 1887. It was initially was constructed in a similarly elaborate form as built for the transmission actuation of the the station in Gersthofen. It has been producing Göggingen doubling mill and thread factory, but electricity since 1907, initially for a factory and later however generated the electricity for the subsequently for general supply. Today you will factory, like the other two earlier stations. find the Lechmuseum Bayern here which presents the river in all its facets.
Power plant at the Wolfzahnau Power plant 15 This power plant is an impressive structure which straddles a 19 at the Wertachkanal canal shortly before the confluence of the Lech and Wertach rivers. This power plant was built in 1920 on In 1901 it was the first station to be built to generate electricity for the what was then the new Wertachkanal. cotton mill, in other words, no longer to drive the factory machines Its purpose was to stem the risk of directly. Its huge flywheel had been showcased previously at the flooding but also to generate energy. The Paris World Exhibition. original purpose of the power plant with its two turbines which are still in use today was to generate electricity for the Augsburg tram system.
Power plant at the Proviantbach 20 Like those at Stadtbach and Wolfzahnau, this power plant built in 1922 initially belonged to the cotton mill. A very first power plant was built in this location already in 1858. The turbines and the generator of 1922 can still be seen in the new building, which is constructed in the sober style of the industrial architecture of this time.
Power plant Meitingen 21 This power plant is the third one at the Lech Canal and the furthest away from Augsburg. Power plant Gersthofen Initially it supplied industry and subsequently 16 The first of three hydropower generated power for the entire region. Only in plants at the newly created Lech Canal – this power plant is the entire original technical a palatial building in the Baroque style equipment of 1922 preserved and still in operation. – went into operation in 1901. It was no longer connected to a factory, but marked the beginning of comprehensive Canoe course (Eiskanal) power supply in Bavarian Swabia. 22 For the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the historical ice canal was developed to create the first artificial whitewater canoe Power plant at the Senkelbach course in the world. Thus 17 The power plant built in 1904 situated at modern-day sport is also a part the oldest canal of the Wertach initially supplied of the centuries-old tradition of a machine factory. Later it was used for general the Water System of Augsburg. power supply. It is still working today with modern The course is still used today for turbines. The set of machines used in 1923 has international competitions. been preserved, but is no longer in operation. Langweid / Meitingen TOUR OVERVIEW GENERAL PLAN 21 18 Gersthofen 16 8
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The Water Management System Tour 1 Inner city tour of Augsburg comprises a unit of Tour 2 Romantic & industry tour 22 elements based on a network of Tour 3 City & forest tour canals. With three rivers and numerous Tour 4 Wolfzahnau & Wertach tour 17 springs, the natural conditions are 17 12 20 extraordinarily favourable. Wertach TOUR
TOUR 3 CANALS TOUR 2 2 Lech canals 300 22 Canoe course (Eiskanal) 5 1 300 DRINKING WATERWORKS 10 4 Waterworks at Rotes Tor 7 2 5 Lower waterworks Main station i 8 6 Waterworks at Vogeltor 6 Lech 9 11 Waterworks at Hochablass 300 WATER ENGINEERING STRUCTURES Friedberg 4 1 Hochablass (Lech weir) 19 3 Galgenablass (culvert) 300 FOUNTAINS 7 Augustus Fountain 8 Mercury Fountain 9 Herkules Fountain 300 11 22 STADTMETZG 10 Stadtmetzg 1 POWER PLANTS 12 Power plant at the Stadtbach 13 14 13 Power plant at the Fabrikkanal 300 14 Power plant at the Singold 15 Power plant at the Wolfzahnau 16 Power plant Gersthofen 17 Power plant at the Senkelbach Siebentisch- Kuhsee 17 wald 3 18 Power plant Langweid 19 Power plant at the Wertachkanal 20 Power plant at the Proviantbach The urban area of Augsburg 21 Power plant Meitingen The old town
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TOUR PFÄRRLE TOUR GEORGENSTRASSE MÜLLERSTRASSE INNER CITY TOUR 1 FRAUENTOR BERT-BRECHT-STRASSE 2 LANGE GASSE KAHNFAHRT (boat trip) RIEDLER- Where the craftsmen AM KATZENSTADEL STRASSE ST. JACOB’S STRASSE WATER TOWER SENKELBACHSTRASSE PULVER- GÄNSBÜHL AUGUSTUS ÄUSSERES 7 AM KATZENSTADEL PFAFFENGÄSSCHEN were at home FOUNTAIN ANDER GÄSSCHEN OUTER AUF DEM KREUZ UNTERE JAKOBERMAUER CITY MOAT
BLAUEN FRANZISKANERGASSE DURATION APPROX. 1 HOUR (3.5 KM) HENISIUSSTRASSE 5 LOWER OBLATTERWALLSTRASSE WATERWORKS TOURISTS, SCHOOL CLASSES, PEOPLE INTERESTED KAPPE IN TECHNOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF ART 5
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St. Jacob’s Water tower LAUTERLECH Route: Augustus Fountain – Stadtmetzg – Lower waterworks – VOLKHARTSTRASSE
KAROLINENSTR. UNTERER GRABEN Lech canals – Waterworks at Vogeltor – Waterworks at Rotes Tor – Hercules Fountain – Mercury Fountain – Maximilian Museum PILGERHAUSSTRASSE WATERWORKS 6 KARLSTRASSE AT VOGELTOR STADT- JAKOBERSTRASSE METZG 10 In the Middle Ages, numerous handicraft businesses set FUGGEREI OBERER GRABEN AM ALTEN EINLASS themselves up with their mills, forges and pump stations AUGUSTUS MITTLERER LECH FOUNTAIN ELIAS STRASSE 7 NEPTUN FOUNTAIN along the canals in the inner city to use the hydropower. HOLL KAPPENECK RATHAUS- PLATZ
Maybe as you are strolling around, you will stumble ANNA PLATZ 2 LECH CANALS FUGGERSTRASSE across the last traditional tannery in Augsburg. To this SCHAEZLERSTRASSE day, it is still located beside the water and still uses a 2 HOLBEINSTR. tanner‘s floor just as it did back then. 10 STADT- HINTERER LECH METZG WERNER-HAAS-STRASSE LECH CANALS But of course the old town of Augsburg has more to HUNOLDS offer: Make a stop at an ice-cream parlour, visit the little BEI ST. URSULA VOGELMAUER KÖNIGSPLATZ GRABEN shops or refresh yourself at the public drinking water BAHNHOFSTR. WINTERGASSE JAKOBER-WALL-STRASSE WATERWORKS fountains. 6 VORDERER WATERWORKS AT VOGELTOR 6 AT VOGELTOR In post-medieval times, Augsburg was famous throughout Europe for its effective water management KATHARINENGASSE LECH system. The city celebrated this achievement around PREDIGER MAXIMILIAN
KONRAD-ADENAUER-ALLEE 1600 by erecting three monumental fountains. That is HALLSTRASSE BERG AM SCHWALL
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why it is well worth visiting the Maximilian Museum IBBOGENMAUER where the original figures of the fountains and original SCHIESSGRABENSTRASSE STRASSE KAPUZINERGASSE AM BRUNNENLECH HERMANSTRASSE TIM technical models of Augsburg‘s historical water supply TEXTILE BÄCKERGASSE MUSEUM system are on display. public drinking ARMENHAUSGASSE GASSE Tour 2 online and water fountains Opening times: for download (gpx) Maximilian Museum: Tues – Sun: 10 am – 5 pm; Mon closed PROVINOSTRASSE wassersystem-augsburg.de/en/tours KAHNFAHRT 100 meters WEITE GASSE MARGARETENSTR.
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2 UNTERER GRABEN 3 PILGERHAUSSTRASSE KARLSTRASSE 10 JAKOBERSTRASSE OBERER GRABEN STADTMETZG FUGGEREI KARLSTRASSE JAKOBERSTRASSE 10 FUGGEREI MITTLERER LECH AUGUSTUS AUGUSTUS- MITTLERER LECH Where Augsburg 7 RATHAUS- BERLINER ALLEE BERLINER ALLEE 7 RATHAUS- FUGGERSTRASSE BRUNNEN FUGGERSTRASSE FOUNTAIN PLATZ EXTRA TIP PLATZ MERCURY SCHAEZLERSTRASSE SCHAEZLERSTRASSE 2 8 STRASSE LECHKANÄLE AMAGASAKI ALLEE HOLBEINSTR. HINTERER LECH FOUNTAIN 2 ANNA At the city hall square and at the south end of the STRASSE LECH CANALS 8 AMAGASAKI ALLEE is more than just a HINTERER LECH HOLBEINSTR. KÖNIGS- VOGELMAUERJAKOBER-WALL-STRASSE PLATZ park at Rotes Tor, bicycles can be rented at hire ANNA WINTERGASSE 8 BAHNHOFSTR. MERKURBRUNNEN 6 BRUNNEN- KÖNIGS- VOGELMAUERJAKOBER-WALL-STRASSE WERK AM stations so you can do the tour either entirely or PLATZ HALDERSTR. VOGELTOR SCHÄFFLERBACH World Heritage Site WINTERGASSE 9 MERCURY FORSTERSTRASSE partly by bike. KONRAD-ADENAUER-ALLEE BAHNHOFSTR. HALLSTR. AM SCHWALL FOUNTAIN WATER- MAXIMILIAN 6 WORKS AT HALDERSTR. SCHIESSGRABENSTRASSE
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STRASSE DURATION APPROX. 1-2 HOURS (5.0 KM) 9 HERKULES- STRASSE
FORSTERSTRASSE SCHÄFFLERBACH KONRAD-ADENAUER-ALLEE BRUNNEN HALLSTR. PROVINOSTRASSE AM SCHWALL WEITE GASSE REICHENBERGER STRASSE MAXIMILIAN WATERWORKS SPITALGASSE HANDWERKER- TOURISTS, SCHOOL CLASSES, FAMILIES, 4 HOF SCHIESSGRABENSTRASSE KAPPELBERG AT ROTES TOR ROSENAUSTRASSE PRINZ STRASSE WASSERWERK LOTZBECKSTRASSE PEOPLE INTERESTED IN HISTORY OF ART BÄCKERGASSE STETTENSTRASSE HERMANSTRASSE HERKULES AM ROTEN TOR SANDERSTRASSE STRASSE AM ESER FOUNTAIN ESERWALLSTR. 4 STRASSE FREILICHT- BÜHNE BERLINER ALLEE PROVINOSTRASSE WEITE GASSE ROTE- STRASSE Route: Augustus Fountain – Stadtmetzg – Fuggerei – Neptune TORWALL- REICHENBERGER STRASSE SPITALGASSE HANDWERKER- HOF Fountain – Lower waterworks – Kahnfahrt (boat trip) – St. Jacob’s BAUMGARTNER FRIEDBERGER STRASSE ALTER HEUWEG
KAPPELBERG ROSENAUSTRASSE Water tower – Outer city moat – tim textile museum PRINZ STRASSE STRASSE WATERWORKS LOTZBECKSTRASSE STETTENSTRASSE AT ROTES TOR SANDERSTRASSE ESERWALLSTR. AM ESER 4 FRIEDBERGER STRASSE
SIEBENTISCHSTRASSE FREILICHT- BÜHNE Immerse yourself completely in Augsburg’s water history. HAUNSTETTERSTRASSE BERLINER ALLEE ROTE- STRASSE INVERNESS ALLEE
HOCHFELDSTRASSE TORWALL- SCHERTLINSTRASSE In addition to World Heritage elements, on this tour you SPICKELSTRASSE GALGENABLASS 3 BAUMGARTNER will also visit other places of interest in Augsburg. (CULVERT) FRIEDBERGER STRASSE ALTER HEUWEG
For example, while on the boat ride, sail over the moat STRASSE CANOE COURSE
ALTER POSTWEG SIEBENTISCHSTRASSE (EISKANAL) in a small rowing boat. The writer Bertolt Brecht also HAUNSTETTERSTRASSE DR. ZIEGENSPECK STRASSE WATERWORKS 22 FRIEDBERGERAT STRASSEHOCHABLASS enjoyed being out and about here. At the beginning 11 of the 20th century, there was even a plan to develop HAUNSTETTERSTRASSE SIEBENTISCHSTRASSE 11 WATERWORKS City forest this stretch of water into a harbour! Pay a visit to the AT HOCHABLASS Zoo INVERNESS ALLEE HOCHABLASS 1 Fuggerei – the world’s oldest existing social housing HOCHFELDSTRASSE (LECH WEIR) SCHERTLINSTRASSE17 complex. And in the tim (State Textile and Industry SPICKELSTRASSE 22 CANOE COURSE Museum of Augsburg) you can learn a bit about (EISKANAL) Augsburg as a former centre of the textile industry. SIEBENBRUNNER STRASSE
From the 19th century onwards, many textile factories SIEBENTISCHSTRASSE CANOE COURSE established themselves along Augsburg’s waterways ALTER POSTWEG (EISKANAL) HAUNSTETTERSTRASSE SIEBENTISCHSTRASSE ILSUNGSTRASSE and used the hydroelectric power to drive their looms HOCHABLASS 22 1 DR. ZIEGENSPECK STRASSE (LECH WEIR) directly. The numerous power plants on the waterways SPICKELSTRASSE WATERWORKS 11 also date from this time. ILSUNGSTRASSE AT HOCHABLASS
Opening times: Fuggerei: Apr – Sept: daily 10 am – 7 pm; Oct – Mar: daily 9 am – 6 pm public drinking Zoo Siebentischwald Tour 3 online and water fountains Kahnfahrt: Apr – Sept: Mon / Tues: 5 pm – 10 pm; Wed – Sun: 12 am – 10 pm for download (gpx) HOCHABLASS (LECH WEIR) 1 tim: Tues – Sun: 9 am – 6 pm.; Mon closed 17 1 HOCHABLASS 3 wassersystem-augsburg.de/en/tours (LECH WEIR) 500 meters GALGENABLASS 500 meters (culvert)
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HAMMERSCHMIEDWEG B17 CITY & FOREST TOUR 3 15 4 POWER PLANT AT Where the water THE WOLFZAHNAU STUTTGARTER STR. EXTRA TIP comes from Lechmuseum Bayern in Langweid am Lech LECHMUSEUM The Lechmuseum Bayern is situated in the Power plant BAYERN Langweid which has been producing electricity since DURATION WITH BICYCLE: APPROX. 1 HOUR, 1907. The highlight is the walk-in historical chamber of ON FOOT: APPROX. 3 HOURS (13.3 KM) Neusäß turbines. TOURISTS, NATURE ENTHUSIASTS, CYCLISTS Opening times: Every first Sunday in the month, FRANZ-JOSEF-STRAUß-STR. SCHILLSTR. STEINERNE FURT 10 am – 6 pm. Free-of-charge guided group tours REASONABLE ACCESSIBLE FOR DISABLED PEOPLE 10 STADTMETZG can also be arranged (Tel: 0049 821 328-1658, B17 HOLZWEG E-mail: [email protected]).
Route: Augustus Fountain – Stadtmetzg – Lech canals – Waterworks DONAUWÖRTHER STR. lechmuseum.de POWER at Vogeltor – Waterworks at Rotes Tor – Galgenablass (culvert) – HANS-BÖCKLER-STR. POWER PL ANT POWER PL ANT 17 PLANT Hochablass (Lech weir) – Waterworks at Hochablass – Canoe course 20 17 AT THE AT THE PROVIANTBACH AT THE SENKELBACH DIESELSTR. SENKELBACH KURT-SCHUMACHER-STR. (Eiskanal) – Hercules Fountain – Mercury Fountain KOBELWEG RIEDINGER- 20 RIEDINGERSTR.STR.
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Water gushes from numerous springs in the Augsburg UFERSTR. city forest. The rich groundwater reserves still supply 15 POWER PL ANT ULMER STR. ULMERAT THE STR. WOLFZAHNAU NEUBURGER STR. the city today with drinking water. The Galgenablass ÄUSSERE BLÜCHERSTR. REINÖHLSTR. STADTBACHSTR. is located in the middle of the city forest. A structure LANGENMANTELSTR. reminiscent of a set of gallows used to stand here, THOMMSTR. hence the name. Still today, the Galgenablass fulfills its SCHIEßLERSTR. centuries’ old function and separates drinking water B17 from process water (= spring water and water from the BERLINER ALLEE
River Lech) by means of a culvert. Thus the boundary KLINKERBERG 15 POWER PL ANT BÜRGERMEISTER-ACKERMANN-STR. ditch can flow through under the Siebenbrunner Bach AT THE WOLFZAHNAU STADT- and now supplies the animals in the zoo with fresh water. UNTERER GRABEN METZG AMAGASAKI-ALLEE 19 POWER PLANT AT HOLZBACHSTR. LECHHAUSER STR. THE WERTACHKANAL AUGUSTUS 10 The route continues through the forest until we reach FOUNTAIN 7 OBERER GRABEN JAKOBERSTR. the Hochablass which has been a popular excursion RATHAUS- PLATZ destination since time immemorial. To this day, the Lech FRÖHLICHSTR. water for most of the canals is diverted from here. 1972 KÖNIGSPLATZ
POWER PLANT AT HESSENBACHSTR. heralded a completely new use for the water: for the 19 STADTBERGER STR. JAKOBER-WALL-STR. THE WERTACH CANAL PFERSEER STR. HALDERSTR. ROSENAUSTR. NAGAHAMA-ALLEE
Olympic Games in Munich, an old canal was developed PERZHEIMSTR. to create the world’s first whitewater canoe course. public drinking AUGSBURGER STR. Tour 4 online and water fountains Opening times: Waterworks at the Hochablass: for download (gpx) HERMANSTR. May – Oct; every first Sunday in the month, 12 am – 5 pm POWER PLANT PRINZSTRASSE STETTENSTR. AT THE ESERWALLSTR. wassersystem-augsburg.de/en/tours 500 meters WERTACH- 19 KANAL FRIEDBERGER STRASSE
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17 TOUR WOLFZAHNAU & WERTACH TOUR 4 Where the turbines rattle
DURATION WITH BICYCLE: APPROX. 1 HOUR (14.4 KM)
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Route: Augustus Fountain – Stadtmetzg – Power plant at the Proviantbach – Power plant at the Wolfzahnau – Power plant at the Senkelbach – Power plant at the Wertachkanal
IMPRINT Cycle along the Proviantbach (canal) through the idyllic Wolfzahnau region – a landscape conservation area that Publisher City of Augsburg creates the impression that you are miles away from the World Heritage Office city. In addition to Scottish Highland cows, you will see Karolinenstraße 17 86150 Augsburg old iron bridges and weirs. At the end of the street, the Design Wolfzahnau power plant, located at the confluence of the Büroecco Kommunikations- Lech and Wertach rivers, sits perched across the canal. design GmbH, bueroecco.com
Photography After a short detour to the Riedinger industrial park, we Martin Augsburger, Florian Breuer, continue on for a few kilometres in a southerly direction. Ruth Plössel, André Pommé
Under spreading trees, past allotments and under old Printing Joh. Walch GmbH & Co. KG railway bridges, you will follow the Wertach, which Im Gries 6 rushes past you over stones and rocks not unlike a wild 86179 Augsburg river. The power plant at the Wertach Canal which was October 2020 built primarily to supply electricity for the city’s trams marks the end of the tour. The Wertach Canal was originally used to stem the risk of flooding. # fliesstbeiuns @ wassersystemaugsburg
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