E-66 wind turbine Südkronsberg
The E-66 wind power plant Südkronsberg is a wind power plant with an integrated viewing platform , which was built on the occasion of the Expo 2000 on an open-air site on the Kronsberg in the Hanoverian district of Bemerode .
The wind power plant of the type Enercon E-66 with 64.8 m hub height, 66 m rotor diameter and 1.5 megawatts of power, carries as a special feature a glazed viewing platform in 60 m in height, which has a spiral staircase is reached by 300 steps in the interior of the tower .
The plant was built by Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten , who ran a large organic farm in the vicinity until bankruptcy in 2004.
In addition to the one described here, there is another Enron Wind 1.5s wind turbine on the Kronsberg .
A third Enercon E-32 wind turbine with an output of 280 kilowatts from 1990 was dismantled in November 2019.
Web links
- Description of the Kronsberg landscape with the wind turbine ( memento from March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 395 kB)
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 0.2 ″ N , 9 ° 50 ′ 18.9 ″ E