Muldenstein railway power station
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 39 '25 " N , 12 ° 20' 59" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Brown coal | ||
| power | 11.3 megawatts in 1953 | ||
| Start of operations | 1912 | ||
| Shutdown | 1994 | ||
| Chimney height | 103 m | ||
The Muldenstein railway power plant was a thermal power plant for the generation of traction current built on the territory of the formerly independent municipality of Muldenstein . From 1912 to 1994 it supplied the central German network with single-phase alternating current 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz . The lignite from the nearby Central German district served as fuel .
history
The railway power station was built in 1912 and supplied the central German railway network. Its history is closely linked to the gradual electrification of the railway lines .
The electrical test operation on the Dessau – Bitterfeld railway line opened in 1911; In June 1914, electrical operations were expanded to Leipzig. But as early as August 4, 1914, with the outbreak of World War I , electrical rail traffic was stopped again, the copper catenary dismantled and fed into the armaments industry . In October 1915, on behalf of the Prussian Minister of Public Works, the production of nitric acid for artificial fertilizers and explosives was started in the traction power plant on an experimental basis , but was discontinued in 1917.
From 1921, electric rail operations were resumed: first on a line in Leipzig, and then in small steps until July 1923. Electric train traffic was now possible on the Magdeburg - Roßlau - Dessau - Bitterfeld - Halle / Leipzig line. The power plant was gradually expanded accordingly.
Between 1937 and 1941, the boiler and generator systems for the planned electrification of the Berlin - Halle / Leipzig - Munich railway line were extensively modernized and expanded.
After the Second World War , the technical facilities of the Muldenstein railway power station were dismantled in 1946 as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union . In 1952 the Soviet Union sold the previously unused electrical equipment and vehicles from the Central German and Silesian networks back to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR .
In 1953 the power generators, transformers and switchgear dismantled in 1946 were reinstalled in Muldenstein. The systems were also expanded to include a system operated with mercury vapor rectifiers for generating direct current for a crane system. At a voltage of 220 volts, it could deliver a current of 150 amperes. The electrical output of the power plant was now 11.3 MW, the height of the chimneys 103 meters.
Part of the technical equipment was shut down as early as 1987 and 1990. In 1994 the Muldenstein railway power station was finally taken offline. The demolition started in autumn 2007. Accidents occurred during the work, so that the construction site is closed and the demolition has not yet been completed. On April 10, 2011, the three large chimneys were blown up.
See also
- List of decommissioned power plants in Germany
- History of the electric drive of rail vehicles # Central Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siegfried Graßmann: Muldenstein Railway Power Plant ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ( MS Word ; 7.5 MB)
- ^ Siegfried Graßmann: History of the Muldenstein Railway Power Plant (= contributions to the Bitterfeld-Wolfen industrial history 5), pp. 25–39.
- ↑ Sachsen-Anhalt-Wiki: "Muldenstein Power Plant" ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Picture and legend No. 3 in "Technikfreunde Friedersdorf, TECHNIK FROM THE REICHSBAHNKRAFTWERK MULDENSTEIN"