Wiener Riesenrad
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The Wiener Riesenrad (German: world's tallest extant Ferris wheel from 1920 until 1985.[citation needed]
History
The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and
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.[3]
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.
Height
When the 64.75-metre (212 ft)Technostar in Japan in 1985.
In popular culture
- The Riesenrad appeared in the post-World War II film noir The Third Man (1949)[5]
- 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 Rexthe Austrian television series
- Winter City in Burnout 3: Takedown is based on Vienna and includes the Riesenrad.
- The wheel is featured in the US Hallmark Channel movie Christmas in Vienna.
- In the second season of the NBC TV Show: Grimm, Episode 21, "the Walking Dead" the wheel is in the background of one scene.
- The wheel appears in episode 1 of the TV series Vienna Blood (2019) The Last Seance [6]
References
- ^ The Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel | Das Wiener Riesenrad
- ^ Jahn, Helmut & Petritsch, Peter, The Vienna Giant Ferris Wheel, Dienten am Hochkonig, 1989
- ^ Wiener Riesenrad - History
- ^ Wiener Riesenrad - Technical data
- ^ Michael Bywater (October 22, 2011). "Graham Greene's Vienna: The city with a starring role in its own film noir". The Independent.
- ^ "Vienna Blood film locations".
External links
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