Viktor Schauberger Was a Pioneer of Holistic Nature Observation

To many, he was the father of modern water research. Like no one else, he was able to look into water; he recognized the essence of water, and many of water’s secrets were revealed to him. As a simple forester, Viktor Schauberger made what was perhaps the most fundamental discovery of our century. He observed nature and tried to read it, to understand it. This gave rise to his motto: “Comprehend nature and then copy it!”

He was born in 1885 on the Plöckenstein in Austria, the fifth of nine children. His uncle had been the last imperial master of the hunt in Bad Ischl, in the time of Franz Joseph. Schauberger’s father was a master forester, as his grandfather, his great-grandfather and his great-great-grandfather had been before him. Viktor Schauberger was a true son of the forest, who roamed alone for days through the primeval wilderness around Lake Plöckenstein and was thus able to observe nature in an intact state.

Viktor’s father wanted to send his son to university to study forestry, but he refused, because he believed that the academics would mutilate his unbiased, natural view of nature just as they had done with his brother. And so Viktor Schauberger attended an ordinary forestry school and became a forester himself.

His first district belonged to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe: 21,000 hectares of almost untouched primeval forest near Steyerling. Schauberger loved this forest, which had hardly ever seen people and whose untouched nature was to grant him his first deep insights into the essence of water – the subject that interested Viktor Schauberger most of all.

Viktor Schauberger recognized the interconnections in nature early on

Viktor Schauberger recognized the interconnections of the water cycle early on. Schauberger coined the terms of the full and the half water cycle and found that clearing trees is a fatal intervention in the forest biotope. The edge trees that were cut down were missing, and the trees behind them now became edge trees. The trunks of these trees “burned” and could therefore no longer store the water in the soil. Viktor Schauberger found that a healthy soil can absorb about five times as much water as the existing humus. If the trees are missing, the water is missing, and the evaporation for the “full water cycle” is missing.

Viktor Schauberger – the power of cool water

Schauberger also soon learned that water does not like to be exposed to sunlight. For example, there had long been a spring with a stone hut built over it. Later the hut was torn down, and the spring now lay open and unprotected from the sunlight. It was not long before the spring suddenly ran dry, and no one knew why. But when the stone hut was rebuilt over it, the water came back too. We know that the ancient Romans likewise covered their springs with stone slabs that left only a round opening free, into which the drainage pipes were inserted in such a way that not even air could enter.

Water evidently loves shade. That is why all springs lie hidden in deep forest or in dark rock crevices. A naturally flowing river or stream protects itself against direct sunlight with shade-giving trees and bushes along its banks.

Viktor Schauberger also observed that rising floodwater during a thaw (the water warms up) builds up gravel banks, which, however, are often carried away again by themselves during clear, cool nights (the water becomes colder). From this Viktor Schauberger concluded that the carrying and suction power of water is greatest when its temperature is low and its flow undisturbed.

Today at the Klausenschlagen in Bad Goisern, Austria: The surge of dammed-up water used to carry the felled timber down into the valley. It is easy to imagine that many tree trunks were smashed against the rocks in the process.
Within 60 minutes, the Weisenbach, dammed up into a lake, drains out behind the drift weir. One of the many visitors to the spectacle comes from neighboring Bad Ischl: Jörg Schauberger. His grandfather built timber flumes that used the water far more efficiently.

It was such timber flumes that made the simple forester famous in the 1930s. In the artificial channels, the heaviest tree trunks floated down into the valley undamaged – even timber heavier than water. Schauberger repeatedly replaced the water in the channel that had grown warm with cold water, because he knew from experience that cold water has a greater carrying capacity than warm water – and he knew even more:

“What was special about the flumes Viktor Schauberger designed was that they were not angular but egg-shaped in cross-section, and that they did not run straight but wound their way through the valley in meanders …”

Viktor Schauberger drew his ideas from studying natural mountain streams and discovered that water’s natural “urge to play” must be preserved in order to use it efficiently.

In some respects, the Aquadea Crystal Vortex™ technology is based on the insights of Viktor Schauberger.

Water and vortex

No stream on earth seeks the shortest path to the sea. In nature, all rivers run in curves, in meanders (meanders). Even on a smooth windowpane, water does not run straight down but begins to meander. It forms a pulsating spatial curve that no computer in the world could calculate.

Hardly anyone could read the secrets of water as well as Viktor Schauberger. Insights into his life’s work can be seen at the Styrian State Exhibition in Graz, where a fascinating vortex forms in a glass funnel. Similar vortices also turn in natural waters.

“Viktor Schauberger still came to know water in its most natural form and saw how much joy it takes in swirling and whirling. Nature must have known why it lets water flow this way. Such a vortex has the advantage of forming a very large surface and can therefore bind a great deal of energy.”

“Viktor Schauberger says energy can never be destroyed; energy can only be dissolved. In the vortices the water cools and becomes denser, and the water quality automatically improves further. That means the density of the water increases, the surface tension increases and the potential of the water is raised considerably.”

With the ideal vortex movement, a suction is created – and we have been able to achieve this suction in the Aquadea Crystal Vortex™ chambers.