Grasbrook gasometer
| Grasbrook gasometer | |
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| The Hamburg gasworks around 1930 | |
| Location data | |
| State : | Germany |
| City : | Hamburg |
| Construction data | |
| Construction: | 1909 |
| Shutdown: | 1976 |
| Cancellation: | 1984 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Construction: | Telescopic gas container |
The Grasbrook Gasometer was a gas container built in Hamburg in 1909 , which stood there until 1984.
history
The Hamburger Gas built 1845 of the former Elbinsel Large Grasbrookhafen at the Port of Hamburg on an about 7 hectare surface Hamburg first gas works . Shortly after opening, it was destroyed by a storm surge and rebuilt in 1846.
In 1909, an uncovered telescopic gas storage facility was built by the Eschweiler steel construction company FA Neuman to expand capacity . With a volume of 200,000 m³ and a height of 71 m, it was Europe's largest gasometer for a few weeks in October 1909 and was also called the “giant gasometer”. There was a track penetration and storage rooms under the container. The construction costs approved in the previous year amounted to 14 million marks .
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Ten weeks after completion, on December 7, 1909 at 3 p.m., the half-filled gasometer exploded. The older gas container next to it also caught fire and exploded at 4:30 p.m. Subsequent investigations showed that when the container was filled, the iron girders of the floor construction, which were obviously too weakly dimensioned, had broken and the iron sheets of the water basin tore. As a result, the water required for sealing had initially flowed out and flooded the factory premises. The gas that then escaped ignited and caused both containers to explode. 30 people were killed and 42 injured. In addition to workers and craftsmen, this also included women from the company canteen in the immediate vicinity.
16 dead were buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in a communal grave site (AF 19).
The container was repaired by FA Neuman and BAMAG and put back into operation in 1911. After its destruction during the Second World War , it was rebuilt again by FA Neuman in 1950/51. As a result of the closure of the gasworks in 1976, the container was finally demolished in 1984.
literature
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- Manfred Asendorf: History of the Hamburg gas works . Christians, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-7672-1070-3 .
- Kurt Grobecker, Wilhelm Hartung: One and a half centuries of Hein Gas: Stories about a lovable Hamburgensie , anniversary publication of the Hamburg gas works. Hamburger Gaswerke, Hamburg 1994, DNB 949340537 .
- Helmut Schoenfeld: Accidents in the port of Hamburg . In: Memorials in Ohlsdorf , edition: No. 105, II, Hamburg May 2009.
- Gert Kähler , Sandra Schürmann: Traces of history: Hamburg, its port and the Hafencity . Published by HafenCity, Hamburg 2010, DNB 968592287 , (= workbooks for HafenCity , Volume 5).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the company FA Neuman , September 28, 2015
- ^ Text on a historical picture postcard from Oskar-Stolze-Verlag (Hamburg), sent by post on December 8, 1909
- ↑ Grasbrook giant gasometer . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 11, 1950
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '22 " N , 9 ° 59' 54.9" E