🎡 The oldest Ferris wheel in the world - Wiener Riesenrad - Prater 4K

The Ferris wheel was planned in 1896 by the English engineers Walter Bassett Basset (1864-1907) and Harry Hitchins and was built with 30 wagons on land on the Prater site leased from Gabor Steiner, the actual “father of the Ferris wheel”. Hubert Cecil Booth was actually the chief designer. Walter Bassett Basset himself advanced the construction costs of 500,000 crowns and then securitized the financing costs in shares (£45,000) and a bond of £10,000 (divided into 40 shares of £250) from the English company “Wiener Riesen Rad Limited” (Vienna Gigantic Wheel Ltd.)[1].
On June 25, 1897, the wheel was set in motion for the first time, but it only made half a revolution so that the upper part could be brought down and fully assembled. It was opened in 1897, a year before the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
The official inauguration of the Ferris wheel took place on July 3, 1897, a hot summer day on which Viennese people visited the Prater grounds in large numbers. However, only very few people would have been able to afford the eight guilders that a ride on the Ferris wheel cost back then. At that time, a civil servant earned 30 guilders a month.
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