Grünscheid power station
| Grünscheid power station | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '47 " N , 7 ° 22' 36" E | |
| country | Germany / NRW | |
| place | Engelskirchen-Grünscheid | |
| Waters | Agger | |
| power plant | ||
| operator | Aggerkette GmbH & Co. KG | |
| Start of planning | 1923 | |
| construction time | 1927-1928 | |
| Start of operation | 1929 | |
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| Average height of fall |
6.55 m | |
| Standard work capacity | 2.174 million kWh / year | |
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The Grünscheid electricity plant is a hydropower plant in Engelskirchen-Grünscheid . The facilities are under monument protection.
Location and description
The facilities include a hydropower plant and a weir . You are in Ohl and dam the Agger , starting from Haus Alsbach downstream, to an approximately 1.6 km long reservoir. The storage volume is 320,000 m³. The height of fall of the water is 6.55 meters. The average standard energy capacity of the two machines is 2174 megawatt hours per year.
history
The district of Gummersbach as well as the municipality of Engelskirchen and the cotton spinning mill Ermen & Engels endeavored to build the power station . In a letter dated August 24, 1923, Gummersbach had applied for a permit to use the hydropower; Engelskirchen and the Ermen & Engels company also submitted their own applications in February 1924, which were rejected by the Cologne district committee on September 2, 1924. The district committee preferred the district of Gummersbach, as it, as the owner of the district electricity works Dieringhausen, had sufficient experience with the construction and operation of a hydropower plant and could also finance the project. After the electricity company in Dieringhausen had allocated special quotas for electricity, the community of Engelskirchen withdrew objections to the building project and its own plans for the construction of a power plant down the agger in Ehreshoven .
For the construction of the facility, three acres of meadow land in the Steeg district and 25 acres of forest in the storage area were acquired. In addition, the district of Schiffarth was bought. The total cost was 900,000 Reichsmarks .
Construction began on January 20, 1927 and was carried out by numerous unemployed people from the mayor's offices in Engelskirchen and Ründeroth and the surrounding area. Since the constructed dam was permeable to water during the course of the earthworks, it was reinforced and provided with a concrete layer of stone over its entire length. As part of the construction work, the course of the Alsbach was relocated. The completion of the structures, originally planned for November 1927, was delayed due to weather conditions and a lack of labor. The construction was completed in August 1928.
After commissioning in 1929 by the Dieringhausen district power station, the systems were taken over by RWE in 1935 . In 2006 the systems were sold to a private operator who sells the electricity generated to AggerEnergie .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Listed buildings in the community of Engelskirchen accessed on February 14, 2016
- ^ A b c Christian Stiefelhagen: Construction of the dams and hydropower plants . In: Heinrich Lüdenbach (Ed.): Loope - A home book . Joh. Heider Verlag GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-87314-473-6 .
- ↑ Around 1100 HP through the power of the Agger Rga online. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
Web links
- Entry on the Ohl-Grünscheid hydropower plant with weir in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council