Emscher pumping station Huckarde

The Emscherpumpwerk Huckarde

Information board for the Emscher pumping station Huckarde

The Emscherpumpwerk Huckarde is a hydraulic structure in the Dortmund district of Huckarde . It is in the immediate vicinity of the Hansa colliery and the Hansa coking plant .

The reasons for the construction of the pumping station are the subsidence caused by mining . To enable drainage of the Huckarde district, the pumping station was built west of the Emscher in 1926. After the pumping station was initially expanded in the 1930s and 1980s, the Emschergenossenschaft, as the operator, decided to shut down the pumping station after the Hansa colliery was closed.

The Emscherpumpwerk Huckarde is registered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund and is part of the route of industrial culture . The building is privately owned and cannot be visited.

Web links

Commons : Emscherpumpwerk Huckarde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0542. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 13, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 23.7 "  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 56.3"  E