Infrastructure

The municipality faced a series of new challenges: the entire social administration, schools, communal housing construction and the administration of services in a narrower sense. The latter includes the entire city's economic operations and „city technology“. The growth of the city presented a great challenge to the local authorities in terms of hygiene.

Epidemic diseases such as cholera, typhus and tuberculosis, from which Linz was not spared, marked a starting point. The level of medical knowledge at the time recognised the need for a sewage system and a central water main. Thus particular emphasis was placed on the construction of sewers and water mains in the second half of the 19th century.

Gas and, later, electricity provision were further innovations in terms of city technology. The construction of a gas works in Linz in 1857 was primarily intended to supply public lighting. Electricity, on the other hand, was to power the trams. In this area, too, Linz was at the forefront of the monarchy.

The growth in population demanded the construction of new schools on the one hand and an extension of support for the poor on the other. Barracks were intended to guarantee internal security. A regular police force took over the register and passport administration in 1866. The city's infrastructure was further strengthened by the construction of the General Hospital in 1863 and the establishment of a voluntary fire force in 1866.