A paternoster at the University of Vienna, NIG (Neues Institutsgebäude), late 1950s, still in operation

A paternoster or paternoster lift is an elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers who are agile enough can step on or off at any floor they like. A paternoster at the University of Vienna, NIG (Neues Institutsgebäude), late 1950s, still in operation. ... The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Vienna, Austria is the oldest university in the current Austro-Hungarian domain; it formally opened in 1365. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... A set of lifts in the lower level of a London Underground station. ...

History

First built in 1884 by Londoner J. E. Hall as the Cyclic Elevator, the name paternoster ("Our Father", the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin) originally applied to the device because the elevator is in the form of a loop and is thus similar to rosary beads used as an aid in reciting the Lord's prayer. Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Prayer beads are traditionally used to keep count of the repetitions of prayers, chants or devotions. ...

Paternosters were popular throughout the first half of the 20th century as they could carry more passengers than ordinary elevators. They were more common in continental Europe, especially in public buildings, than in the United Kingdom. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... World map showing the location of Europe. ...

A common misconception is that it is dangerous to stay in an upgoing cabin after it has reached the top floor or in a downgoing one after it has passed the ground floor level. The compartment remains upright, and travel is possible provided that the passengers remain perfectly still. Nevertheless there are two risks of such a journey. The elevator is liable to shut down if an occupant of the cabin shifts position during the cabin's lateral motion from the upward to the downward shaft or vice versa. Also, the drive chain is exposed above the top floor. In 1989, the paternoster in Newcastle University's Claremont Tower was taken out of service after a passenger undertaking an up-and-over journey became caught in the drive chain, necessitating a rescue by the Fire Service.^{[citation needed]} A conventional elevator was subsequently installed in its place. This accident led to an 18-month close-down of all UK paternosters for a safety review, during which additional safety devices were fitted. An urban legend or urban myth is similar to a modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Newcastle University is a British university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north of England. ... A Canadian firefighter A firefighter or fireman or Nathaniel is trained and equipped to extinguish fires. ...

Today, in many countries the construction of new paternosters is no longer allowed because of the high danger of accidents (people tripping or falling over when trying to enter or alight). Also, an increased sensitivity to the needs of the disabled, e.g., wheelchair users, has led to the paternoster's gradual demise. Existing paternosters remain operative until they are dismantled, so their number is continually decreasing. As objects that belong to a vanishing world, for some people paternosters have achieved cult status. Look up disability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In April 2006, Hitachi announced plans for a modern paternoster-style elevator with computer-controlled cars and normal elevator doors to alleviate safety concerns.^[1][2][3] Hitachi may refer to: Hitachi (train) trains in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Other uses

In DIY stores, the name paternoster is also used to refer to a machine that stores rolls of carpets or vinyl where these represent the cabins. This allows multiple rolls to be easily accessible for viewing and cutting at ground level while taking advantage of vertical storage space.

Surviving paternosters

A paternoster in former East Berlin, still in use

A view from inside the above paternoster, showing the gap between floors

Several working paternosters examples are known to survive in Europe: Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1232x1632, 822 KB) Summary Paternoster elevator at a building belonging to the Normanenstraße campus of the East German Stasi, later used by the Arbeitsamt and in use until 2004. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1232x1632, 822 KB) Summary Paternoster elevator at a building belonging to the Normanenstraße campus of the East German Stasi, later used by the Arbeitsamt and in use until 2004. ... East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 452 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1232 × 1632 pixel, file size: 725 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View from a working paternoster lift. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 452 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1232 × 1632 pixel, file size: 725 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) View from a working paternoster lift. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ...

Austria

• NIG (Neues Institutsgebäude der Universität Wien), University of Vienna
• City Hall of Vienna (at stairway 6)
• House of Industry, Schwarzenbergplatz 4, Vienna (oldest paternoster in Austria)
• Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, Stubenring, Vienna
• Ministry of Defence, Rossauer Lände 1, Vienna
• Federal Computing Centre, Hintere Zollamtsstraße 4, Vienna
• Versicherungsanstalt für Eisenbahnen und Bergbau (Insurance institution of the railway and mining industries), Linke Wienzeile, Vienna

Belgium

• A functioning paternoster can be found at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, where it is used as an art display.

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Czech Republic

• The Komerční Banka building on Václavské náměstí in Prague. (This is a working office and not open to the general public, but it can be seen from the main lobby).
• The Úřad městského obvodu (district offices) on Prokešovo náměstí in Ostrava, which are open to the public.
• A working paternoster can be found at the Faculty Of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology where it is being used by students and faculty staff.
• Czech Technical University in Prague on Dejvice , Tehnická 2, Prague
• Office building of Spolek pro chemickou a hutní výrobu (Spolchemie) in Ústí nad Labem
• Within the Lucerna building in Prague, near the entrance from Štěpánská.
• Office building of KAUČUK, a.s. in Kralupy near Prague.

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Denmark

• At the seat of the Danish parliament, Christiansborg, there is a working paternoster open to the public.
• Frederiksberg City Hall.
• At Danfoss Nordborg
• At KVUC in Copenhagen

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Finland

• The Finnish house of parliament, the Eduskuntatalo.
• Kansaneläkelaitos office building, Helsinki.
• Stockmann department store, Helsinki.

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Germany

• Trostbrücke 1, in the Altstadt district of Hamburg (although this is a working office and not always open to the general public). A paternoster still in operation and open to general public is in the Bezirksamt Eimsbüttel (Grindelberg 62/66).
• The IG Farben Building in Frankfurt-am-Main. The current occupants of the building, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, have pledged to maintain and preserve the famous paternosters "in perpetuity".
• Stuttgart town hall.
• Mannheim operations building of SCA
• Leverkusen, some Paternosters
• In the Informatics and Mathematics faculty of Universität-Leipzig one can still be found, although the lift stays in operation only half of the day. As the faculty is being rebuilt by 2009, it is unlikely that the paternoster will be in service beyond that date.
• Duisburg - both in the city hall and the internal revenue offices.
• Duesseldorf - in the older of the three Vodafone Global buildings. Currently out of use following an incident.
• Cologne - In the IHK (Industrie- und Handelskammer/Chamber of Industry and Trade) Building (Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26, D-50667 Cologne, Hansahochhaus (housing Saturn, Hansaring, Maybachstraße 115, D-50674 Cologne), WDR HQ (Wallrafplatz 1, D-50667 Cologne (only for employees); Kaufhof (Hohe Straße 41-53, D-50667), Kaufhof Corporate HQ (Leonhard-Tietz-Str., D-50667 Cologne (not open to the public); Volkshochschule Building (near Neumarkt, D-50667 Cologne); Former Felten & Guilleaume Corporate HQ (Schanzenstr. 28, D-51069 Cologne-Mülheim, accessible public office building, 5 Stories); former downtown Bezirksamt „Dischhaus“ (Brückenstr., D-50667 Cologne);Bezirksregierung Köln (Regional Government Center Cologne), Entrance: Zeughausstraße 8 (D-50667 Cologne)
• Berlin - Foreign Office, Werderscher Markt 1; Finance Ministry, Wilhelmstrasse 97; Agriculture Ministry, Wilhelmstrasse 54; Axel Springer Building, Axel Springer Strasse 65; Bayer Schering Pharma, AG; ART+COM, Kleiststrasse 23-26, 10787 Berlin (52°30′4.99″N 13°20′39.72″E / 52.5013861, 13.3443667).

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Hungary

• University of Miskolc
• Jahn Ferenc Hospital in Budapest
• Ministry of Education and Culture in Budapest

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Netherlands

• Paternosters are still in operation at the main office of the Corus Steelworks (formerly Hoogovens) in IJmuiden. This remarkable building (by Dudok, 1951) was restored in 1999.

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Poland

• The Head Office of Bank Zachodni WBK at Rynek 9/11 in Wroclaw, Poland - the paternoster is still in use, yet it is only available to the Bank staff

Sweden

• HSB Riksförbunds hus in Stockholm
• Norrland's University Hospital in Umeå

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United Kingdom

Paternoster at the Albert Sloman library at the University of Essex

• Paternoster lifts continue to operate in the Albert Sloman library at the University of Essex.
• The Arts Tower at the University of Sheffield.
• Attenborough Tower at the University of Leicester
• The Pantheon, Oxford Street branch of Marks & Spencer still had a paternoster for staff use in the 1990s.
• A seven floor Paternoster survives in E block at the Siemens (Formally Ericsson) site in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Employees are banned from going around the bottom or over the top following an incident a few years ago. Abuse caused by a group of German visitors shaking the car had caused the car to get stuck at the bottom.
• Rolls-Royce's tower block on Victory Road in Derby.
• Staff in the main ward building of Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, have access to a paternoster in the central ward building. This is slated for replacement as existing conventional lifts exist for staff use.
• One survives in the four-storey British Airways Viscount House building at Heathrow Airport, west of London. This building is not open to the public.
• The Dental Hospital in Birmingham has one for staff use.
• In Scotland, a working paternoster serves seven floors of the Pontecorvo Building (former Department of Genetics) at the University of Glasgow. The building is not open to the public. A paternoster was installed there on construction, in 1966–67 (by architects Basil Spence & Partners) because each floor has a small area and it was anticipated that staff and students would make many short journeys. This expectation has been fulfilled, and the paternoster is considered to have been a very valuable device.
• There is a working paternoster at Technology House, the headquarters of Boxclever, in Bedford

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Cultural references

• William Holden can be seen entering a paternoster in the 1962 film The Counterfeit Traitor

• An example of a continuous-belt type paternoster of the type used in industrial plants can be seen in the 1966 film Our Man Flint, in which James Coburn uses a paternoster to escape pursuing enemies.

• In the 1976 film The Omen, a paternoster can be seen in the Rome hospital visited by Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) in the course of his enquiries into the origins of Damien (located in reality in Northwick Park Hospital).

• In the 1967 TV series The Prisoner episode "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling" the Number Six character (played in that episode by Nigel Stock) is seen taking a ride in a paternoster lift (located in reality at the GEC Marconi building in Borehamwood).

• In David Lodge's 1975 novel Changing Places, the transplanted Californian, Morris Zapp, is chased up and down a paternoster by a psychotic professor of literature at the fictitious University of Rummidge in England.

• Paternoster was also the name of an Austrian progressive rock band of the 70's.

• In his Diaries (1899-1941) the Austrian novelist Robert Musil uses the paternoster as an analogy of birth and death:

It is distressing to reflect that we hurry like little hunted dots along the line that is our life and finally disappear down some unforeseen hole. And that, in front of us and behind, at intervals that nothing can reduce, other similar dots go racing along, which have some kind of temporary link with us, like the next links in the chain of a paternoster lift that goes racing on round.

• In the novel Metropolis a lead character Freder exchanges places with an exhausted worker and takes over his seemingly pointless task of moving the dials of a gigantic clock-like device which runs the massive system of Paternoster-lifts in the New Tower of Babel.

• In the 1966 movie Funeral in Berlin Harry Palmer is surprised to find a paternoster in a West Berlin police station.

• In the novel Underworld by Reginald Hill, Ellie Pascoe and one of her students ride together in a Paternoster located in a building referred to as "the Ivory Tower" in Mid-Yorks University.

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References

1. ^ Staedter, Tracy (June 2006), "Lifts in Loops", Fast Company (no. 106): 35
2. ^ http://www.hqrd.hitachi.co.jp/global/news_pdf_e/merl060301nrde_elevator.pdf
3. ^ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/month/2006/03/0301.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522multi-car%2522%2Belevator%2Bsite:hitachi.co.jp%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DdJT%26sa%3DG

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• A clip of new students trying a Paternoster in Leicester
• The Elevator Museum
• List and photos of paternoster lifts (German)
• Paternosters still in operation in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria (German)
• Link to a tour of the University of Essex Albert Sloman library in England with picture of the paternoster lift
• Pages about history of paternosters in the world and especiallly in the Czech Republic (Czech) List of all paternosters in Prague with information and photographs. Technical directives of the European Union for paternosters.
• History and photos of the I.G. Farben Building (now the Poelzig-Bau) in Frankfurt/M, Germany, famous for its paternosters
• Information and photos regarding the GEC Marconi paternoster featured in "The Prisoner" TV series
• A short movie located in the Eduskuntatalo, with a few scenes with the paternoster
• A short video of the operating paternoster in Leipzig
• Visit the Yahoo Paternoster group