Vienna's Landscape Evolution 200–2010 CE and Historical Hydraulic Constructions
Historische Entwicklung der Wiener Landschaft und historische Wasserbauten
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As part of several interdisciplinary projects on the environmental history of Vienna’s waterbodies, the past landscape was reconstructed from 200 CE onwards. Step by step the historical states of the landscape were compiled.
The resulting maps of Vienna’s landscape evolution from 200 to 2010 provide a solid basis for interpreting the environmental conditions for Vienna’s urban development and help to localise certain riverine and urban landmarks relevant for the history of Vienna.
Die historische Entwicklung der Wiener Landschaft ab dem Jahr 200 n. Chr. wurde im Rahmen mehrerer interdisziplinärer Projekte zur Umweltgeschichte der Wiener Gewässer erforscht. Schritt für Schritt wurden die historischen Zustände der Landschaft basierend auf mehr als 1000 historischen Karten und Plänen, schriftlichen Archivquellen und archäologischen sowie geologischen Daten rekonstruiert.
Die daraus resultierenden Karten zur Landschaftsentwicklung Wiens von 200 n. Chr. bis 2010 bieten eine solide Grundlage für die Interpretation der historischen Umweltverhältnisse und der Stadtentwicklung Wiens und ermöglichen es, bestimmte für die Geschichte Wiens relevante Gewässer, Gebäude und Landschaftsstrukturen zu lokalisieren .
Make a selection out of 16 map layers that display the landscape evolution in Vienna between Roman Times around 200 CE and 2010 CE.
A separate legend layer informs about the symbols in the map layers. The legend layer can be switched on and off. Additional layers inform about linear and areal hydraulic structures / measures implemented in every century. Click on individual hydraulic structures to find out more details. Note that several structures can lie on top of each other.
For related data quality and status of processing see info tool (i) in the app.
You can manage transparency of each layer in order to compare the historical state with the current situation reflected by the basemap. The transparency function can also be used to compare two different historical states.
featured by Severin Hohensinner
For the making-of and further details please refer to our book "Wasser Stadt Wien" (in German) and our Special Issue in "Water History" (in English; for access click on book images).
Several video animations can be found on our YouTube Channel.
Credits:
Besides own work, the final dataset integrates data from the following master theses: B. Lager (2012), V. Schuller (2015), J. Reichstein (2016), J. Tanzer (2016) and A. Streitberger (2016). Since 2010 all GIS data have been repeatedly updated and supplemented by S. Hohensinner. Historical hydraulic constructions have also been researched by S. Hohensinner. Martin Mosser, Heike Krause (City Archaeology Vienna) and Christoph Sonnlechner (City Archive of Vienna) contributed data on the landscape reconstructions.
Funding:
The overall dataset is based on projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (ENVIEDAN P22265-G18 and URBWATER P25796-G18, project leader: Verena Winiwarter), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the City of Vienna (Jubiläumsfonds, Wien Museum and MA 45).
Citation:
Hohensinner, Severin et al. (2024): Vienna’s landscape evolution 200 – 2010 CE and historical hydraulic constructions. WebGIS Application, https://arcg.is/0f8LOW1
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