entrance to the small tunnel ( Photo: Herr Schacher, Geol. Institute Heidelberg / Ger.
The question was
whether this water supply tunnel was the first of its kind in Trippstadt
In approx. 1730 –1735 Ludwig Anton Baron von
Hacke, official gamekeeper, most probably had the first locally situated water
tunnel and waterway constructed.
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entrance to the small tunnel ( Photo: Herr Schacher, Geol. Institute Heidelberg / Ger. |
The upper well ( Obere Brunnen ( Hauptsstr.98 ) and the Hirschbrunnen ( Hauptstr. 72) were connected to this first water main. This first water supply system built in a Roman manner with a flow of 1.5 lt. /sec. was perfected.
Obere Brunnen ( wells ) 1920 - 1930 |
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Water supply was necessary because of the industrialization and the iron industry, as well as the increase in population.
Hirschbrunnen >1930 ( Photos supplied by local inhabitants )