Spittelau Waste Incineration Plant (Hundertwasser), Vienna

Wikipedia: The waste incineration plant Spittelau is one of three thermal waste treatment plants of Fernwärme Wien GmbH. Its peculiarity lies in the façade artistically designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

The Spittelau waste incineration plant is one of Wien Energie's three thermal waste treatment plants. Its special feature lies in the façade artistically designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. With an installed total output of 460 MW, the plant is the second largest generator in the district heating network (this small part of 22 percent is shared by the three thermal waste treatment plants of Wien Energie) of the city of Vienna.

The facility, located in the northernmost part of the 9th district on the Danube Canal, was completed in 1971 on the site between the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and the connecting arch. The Spittelau thermal waste treatment plant was built at its current location to provide heat for the New General Hospital, which is around two kilometers away.

The ongoing adaptation to the latest flue gas cleaning technology led to the retrofitting of the Spittelau thermal waste treatment plant with a wet flue gas scrubber (1986/89) and a modern denitrification and dioxin destruction plant (1989). At the same time, the outer facade of the entire district heating plant was redesigned by Friedensreich Hundertwasser after a major fire in 1987. The planning was carried out by the architect Peter Pelikan in cooperation with Alexander Marchart, Roland Moebius and Waagner-Biro.[1] The previously sober functional building became a work of art that is intended to represent a harmonious symbiosis between technology, ecology and art. A thermal waste treatment plant in a similar style was later built in Osaka/Japan based on the Spittelau.

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Little known and therefore tourist-free