Hofbrunnwerkkanal

The Hofbrunnwerkkanal is a channel that supplies the Hofbrunnwerk on the northern edge of the Munich Hofgarten with water to drive its turbines. The channel belongs to the system of the Munich city streams.

Course

The Hofbrunnwerkkanal is about 410 m long, 1.17 m wide and 0.58 m deep. He leads an average water volume of 600 l / s and has a gradient of about 1.2 %.

The channel is diverted underground city of the Western grave creek before the middle of the north wing of the residence, continues underground, first obliquely through the courtyard to the north-east corner and then east to Hofbrunnwerk.

After driving the turbines, the water continues to flow underground towards the northeast under the Harmloswiese through and between Prinz- Carl- Palais and Köglmühlbach to the pedestrian underpass under the Old Town Square. There it flows in a covered with grating trough and flows beneath a waterfall at the beginning of the English Garden in the beginning there Schwabing stream.

History

Already for the first Hofbrunnwerk, built in 1562, a channel was created, which probably diverged from the Western city grave creek. The channel with the present course was created around 1845, when the old fountain machinery was torn down and rebuilt at the residence next to the Hofbrunnwerk.

1968 Hofbrunnwerkkanal was abandoned because it was the building of the Old Town Square in the way, and the Hofbrunnwerk was shut down. As part of the renovation of the old Army Museum of the State Chancellery, where the Köglmühlbach is new addition to its original bed, 1991, the Hofbrunnwerkkanal and Hofbrunnwerk were put back into operation.