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Overcoming the Iron Gates: Austrian Transport and River Regulation on the Lower Danube, 1830s-1840s.
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- Author(s): Gatejel, Luminita
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Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK); Jun2016, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p162-180, 19p- Subject Terms:
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- Abstract: This article deals with early efforts to facilitate steam navigation between Vienna and Constantinople along the Danube. In addition to analyzing the complex negotiation processes that enabled the first regulation project at the so-called Iron Gates, a narrow gorge situated at the Austrian-Ottoman border, it assesses ways in which the new shipping connection transformed the cultural and spatial perceptions of travelers. The article argues that even though the plan for making the Iron Gates navigable was set out on the drawing boards of engineers and in the cabinets in Pest and Vienna, local circumstances changed its practical implementation in a number of important ways. The success of this major engineering operation relied on close cooperation among hydrological experts, state representatives, and entrepreneurs, all of whom had different stakes in the project but still shared a common interest. Establishing a shipping connection to the Black Sea along the Danube was thus the result of an alignment of interests among Hungarian, Viennese, and local Ottoman authorities; a careful match between theoretical knowledge and practical engineering work; and, last but not least, the surmounting of a mental separation between "Orient" and "Occident". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Abstract: Der vorliegende Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit den frühen Versuchen die Dampfschifffahrt entlang der Donau zwischen Wien und Konstantinopel zu erleichtern. In diesem Zusammenhang wird nicht nur der komplexe Verhandlungsprozess analysiert, der die erste Regulierung am Eisernen Tor ermöglichte, sondern auch die Art und Weise beleuchtet, wie die neue Schiffsverbindung die kulturellen und räumlichen Wahrnehmungen der Reisenden verändert hat. Dabei wird argumentiert, dass der Plan das Eiserne Tor navigierbar zu machen zwar auf den Reißblättern der Ingenieure und in den Kabinetten von Pest und Wien entworfen wurde, die lokalen Gegebenheiten aber dessen praktische Umsetzung in vielerlei und wichtiger Hinsicht veränderten. Der Erfolg dieser bedeutenden Ingenieursleistung beruhte auf der engen Zusammenarbeit zwischen hydrologischen Experten, staatlichen Repräsentanten und Ingenieuren, die aus unterschiedlichen Gründen in das Projekt involviert waren, aber dennoch alle ein gemeinsames Interesse hatten. Die Errichtung einer Schiffsverbindung entlang der Donau zum Schwarzen Meer war also das Ergebnis von 1. Interessensüberschneidungen zwischen ungarischen,Wiener und örtlichen ottomanischen Regierungsbehörden; 2. einem umsichtigen Zusammenspiel zwischen theoretischen Kenntnissen und praktischer Ingenieursarbeit; und 3. der Überwindung der mentalen Trennung zwischen "Orient" und "Okzident". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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