Hagenwerder power station
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 3 '50 " N , 14 ° 57' 0" E | ||
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| Type | Lignite power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Brown coal ( Upper Lusatian brown coal district ) | ||
| power | 1500 MW el | ||
| Start of operations | 1958 | ||
| Shutdown | 1997 | ||
| Chimney height | 250 m | ||
The Hagenwerder power plant (from 1960 power plant "Völkerfreundschaft" ) was a power plant in Hagenwerder , from 1994 a district of Görlitz in the east of Saxony . The power plant was fired with lignite from the Berzdorf Basin , which belongs to the Upper Lusatian lignite district. To extract this coal, the Berzdorf open-cast mine was opened up in the 1950s .
history
The first plans to build a coal-fired power plant near Leuba were made during the First World War in 1915. A decade later, Deutsche Petroleum-Aktiengesellschaft, as the owner of the Berzdorf lignite plant , was considering building a power plant. In 1938 a power plant project was discussed at the Berzdorf mine for the third time.
The increased demand for electrical energy during the Second World War led to the decision to build a standardized power station near Berzdorf. On April 12, 1943, MEW began work on building the Berzdorf power station . More than 1000 prisoners of war were deployed in the project, which was classified as "important to the war effort". Because of the approaching Eastern Front, work had to be stopped in the spring of 1945. After the end of the war, the unfinished Berzdorf power station was dismantled as part of the reparations to the Soviet Union.
In 1951, the energy requirements for industrial development in the GDR led to the development of a new project for a large Berzdorf power plant on the site of the ruins of the Berzdorf power plant . In 1956, the work began as a building for the youth , in Hagenwerder and Weinhübel housing workers were built. In the following year, a shopping street and an outpatient clinic were built in Hagenwerder. At that time around 700 construction workers were employed in the construction of the power plant. The first train with lignite drove to the power station on June 28, 1958. On July 14, 1958, an oil fire broke out in the power station, in which 20,000 liters of oil were on fire. The inauguration of the Hagenwerder power plant with an output of 50 MW took place on August 15, 1958. In 1960 the power plant was named Kraftwerk Völkerfreundschaft .
In 1963, the construction was carried out of a second power plant of 100 MW blocks, after which the old power plant as Völkerfreundschaft I was designated. The output of power plant I was later increased to 300 MW. In 1974, the Völkerfreundschaft III power plant , which was the first in the GDR to connect two 500 MW power plant blocks to form a 1000 MW module, went online after a four-year construction period. With a total output of 1500 MW, the Völkerfreundschaft power plant was one of the largest lignite-fired power plants in Europe.
After the political change, the obsolete Power Plant I was shut down in 1991. In 1996, Power Plant II was decommissioned. Since the lignite reserves from the Berzdorf opencast mine would no longer allow further operation for at least 15 years, power plant III was also shut down on December 28, 1997. At the time of its closure, the power plant had 608 employees. Later, the power stations were gradually demolished and blown up. The last part was blown up on December 5, 2015, the machine house and the heavy bunker construction of Power Plant III.
technical structure
When completed, the plant, the third block of which received a 250 meter high chimney , had an output of 1500 MW.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brown coal refining in Lausitz - Part II: Eastern Saxony
- ↑ http://www.leuschner.business.t-online.de/energie-chronik/980117.htm
- ↑ https: //www.sächsische.de/lösungen-vom-grossbetrieb-3266881.html
- ↑ http://www.ostkohle.de/html/kw_hagenwerder.html
- ↑ https: //www.sächsische.de/riese-faellt-am-sonnabend-3263978.html