Biggest Cistern Built in Vienna

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 50, 1 March 1939, Page 2

Biggest Cistern Built in Vienna

VlENNA—Vienna claims to have luilt “the biggest cistern in the world.” It has recently been completed and is said to cover seven acres It is still empty and visiting it om night imagine oneself in a forest u; lenient trees, for 800 pillars, 22 fcJ ligh, rising from a cement floor more lhan a foot thick, hold up the roef Later this roof is to be covered wi b. lawns and trees, so that the artificii. lake will be completely hidden. This reservoir is larger than mat. nty parks. Every Sunday many V. ennese flock to see the "new wonder 1 into which they are admitted free. I is to be put into use early in the spring It cost somewhat less than 1,000,06-' Hollars. Big as this reservoir is, it woulo supply Vienna with water for less than £1 hours.

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