Gasometer (Lübeck)
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| State : | Germany |
| Region : | Schleswig-Holstein |
| City : | Lübeck |
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| Construction: | 1954 |
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| Type: | Disk gas container |
| Height : | 70 m |
| Usable volume : | 80,000 m³ |
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Restoration 2005 |
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The gasometer built in 1954 by the Klönne company and restored in 2005 in the industrial area at Geniner Straße 80 on the site of Gaswerk II, which was put into operation in 1893/1894, is one of the most striking buildings in the city of Lübeck . Some views of the city center from the south were taken from the gasometer.
The 70 m high tower is technically a so-called disc gas container, in which a disc presses on the stored gas and therefore slides down when the gas is extracted. The seal is made using sleeves on the pane. Alternatively, so-called telescopic gas containers were built, in which the cylindrical gas container hangs in a frame and sinks into a water basin when gas is withdrawn, which seals the container. In Lübeck, there was such a gas container on the site of Gaswerk I at Moislinger Allee 9, where the main building for the Lübeck Energy and Water Company was built in 1930. The type of telescopic gas container from the gasometer on the Red Island in Berlin is known nationwide. Today, compressed gas tanks are mainly built above or below ground . One of these has also been standing on the grounds of Gas Works II since 1975 - less noticeable than the gasometer. It has 20 times the capacity of the disk gas container.
The predecessors of today's disk gas tank were used to store town gas , which was obtained from hard coal on the site , until the final switch to coke oven gas in 1930 . Parts of the gas works in which the coking was carried out, such as the coal storage hall on the site, are still preserved. When the gasometer was built, the conversion to coke oven gas had already been completed. Until the final conversion to natural gas between 1965 and 1969, it was obtained from the Lübeck blast furnace in Herrenwyk . Since then, natural gas has been stored in the disk gas container.
The disk gas tank holds around 80,000 cubic meters of natural gas. Today, that is less than the amount dispensed in one hour at peak dispensing times. The function of such gas containers is therefore not to stockpile, but to cover the peak quantities of gas delivery, which makes gas procurement cheaper from upstream suppliers, who calculate the price not only according to the amount of energy, but also according to the peak quantity (so-called usage hours). The pressurized gas container in which butane is stored also serves to cover peaks in a similar way. The gas tank is filled with natural gas at night when gas consumption is lower. If consumption is high during the day, this stored gas is then withdrawn again.
It is operated by Stadtwerke Lübeck GmbH and is the last remaining disk gas container in Schleswig-Holstein and one of the few disk gas containers made by the Klönne company in Germany.
See also
literature
- Sven Bardua: Lübeck gas works. In: Ders .: Forgotten technology. A guide to the monuments of industrial culture between Fehmarn and Elbe, 1997. ISBN 3980150631 , pp. 127–130
- Günter Friege and Ingo Sens: 150 years of gas supply in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck 1854 - 2004, publisher: Stadtwerke Lübeck GmbH, without ISBN
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Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 57 ″ N , 10 ° 40 ′ 21 ″ E