XE3F5278 - Noria de Viena - Vienna Giant Wheel - Wiener Riesenrad
La Noria de Viena, también conocida como Wiener Riesenrad ("Noria de Viena" en alemán), o simplemente Riesenrad, es una noria ubicada a la entrada del Parque de Atracciones del Prater, ubicado en el parque homónimo, en el segundo distrito de Viena, Leopoldstadt.
Fue una de las primeras norias, construida en 1897 para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del reinado de Francisco José de Austria. El diseño corrió a cargo del inglés Walter Bassett, lo que explica que su altura sea de 61 metros, 200 pies exactos.
La Riesenrad es, hoy en día, uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de Viena. Era considerada la noria más alta existente en el mundo, de los años 20 hasta 1985, año en que la noria Technocosmos (ahora demolida) fuera construida en Tsukuba, Japón.
Originalmente, la noria contaba con 30 góndolas, pero debido a los daños ocasionados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la reconstrucción, solo se recolocaron 15 de estas cabinas.
La noria está formada por cables de acero, los cuales trabajan a tracción. El movimiento se ejerce desde la base, moviendo la estructura perimetral de acero.
Ha sido escenario de películas tales como El tercer hombre, The Living Daylights o Antes del amanecer.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noria_de_Viena
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt.
A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
It was built with 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.
The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897, both the original 80.4-metre (264 ft) Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)
The wheel is featured in the 1973 spy thriller Scorpio (1973)
The 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights features scenes throughout the Prater, around the wheel, and a lengthy romantic scene on the wheel.
The wheel appears in the novel The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The wheel appears in Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Scenes in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) were filmed around the Prater and on the wheel.
The wheel appears in The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.
The Riesenrad appears in the film Woman in Gold (2015), about the repatriation of a Klimt portrait stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish Viennese family.
The wheel appears in Kommissar Rex the Austrian television series
Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Riesenrad
XE3F5278 - Noria de Viena - Vienna Giant Wheel - Wiener Riesenrad
La Noria de Viena, también conocida como Wiener Riesenrad ("Noria de Viena" en alemán), o simplemente Riesenrad, es una noria ubicada a la entrada del Parque de Atracciones del Prater, ubicado en el parque homónimo, en el segundo distrito de Viena, Leopoldstadt.
Fue una de las primeras norias, construida en 1897 para celebrar el quincuagésimo aniversario del reinado de Francisco José de Austria. El diseño corrió a cargo del inglés Walter Bassett, lo que explica que su altura sea de 61 metros, 200 pies exactos.
La Riesenrad es, hoy en día, uno de los principales atractivos turísticos de Viena. Era considerada la noria más alta existente en el mundo, de los años 20 hasta 1985, año en que la noria Technocosmos (ahora demolida) fuera construida en Tsukuba, Japón.
Originalmente, la noria contaba con 30 góndolas, pero debido a los daños ocasionados durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante la reconstrucción, solo se recolocaron 15 de estas cabinas.
La noria está formada por cables de acero, los cuales trabajan a tracción. El movimiento se ejerce desde la base, moviendo la estructura perimetral de acero.
Ha sido escenario de películas tales como El tercer hombre, The Living Daylights o Antes del amanecer.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noria_de_Viena
The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt.
A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
It was built with 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when it was rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced.
The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897, both the original 80.4-metre (264 ft) Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)
The wheel is featured in the 1973 spy thriller Scorpio (1973)
The 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights features scenes throughout the Prater, around the wheel, and a lengthy romantic scene on the wheel.
The wheel appears in the novel The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The wheel appears in Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948).
Scenes in Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) were filmed around the Prater and on the wheel.
The wheel appears in The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.
The Riesenrad appears in the film Woman in Gold (2015), about the repatriation of a Klimt portrait stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish Viennese family.
The wheel appears in Kommissar Rex the Austrian television series
Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Riesenrad