Gasometer Nuremberg

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Gasometer Nuremberg
Gasometer Nuremberg
Gasometer Nuremberg inside
Location data
State : Germany
Region : Bavaria
City : Nuremberg
Construction data
Construction: 1846, 1910, 1954
Shutdown: 1910, 1975, 1992
Technical specifications
Type: several
Construction: Disk gas container and telescopic gas container
Usable volume : 2 × 150,000 m³
and 200,000 m³

The Nuremberg Gasometer was a gas container in Nuremberg - Sandreuth and a well-known landmark .

history

The Nuremberg gas works went into operation in 1847, initially privately owned, and became the first gas works in Bavaria . The original location was between Fürther Straße and Rothenburger Straße 10 and had several smaller gas tanks and its own siding. In 1871 the company passed into municipal hands and at the turn of the century the limits of capacity were reached. A new location was also sought due to complaints from the population about the constant odor nuisance and problems with drinking water pollution. The choice fell on the site in Nuremberg Sandreuth, right next to the former port of the Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal , as there was already a rail connection there.

Gas production began there in 1904, initially with the old gas containers. The first gasometer at the Sandreuth site was built by MAN as a telescopic gas container with a patented vaulted basin and completed in 1910.

During the Second World War , the facilities were destroyed and rebuilt in a simplified manner after the end of the war. The "new" gasometer with a capacity of 200,000 m³ was completed in 1954 and was a 26-sided disk gas container . With a diameter of 58 m and a height of 95 m, it towered over the entire southern part of the city and was a waypoint that was visible from afar (see aerial photo under web links ).

The gas production was stopped on July 18, 1975; From 1973 the conversion from town gas to natural gas odorized with methanethiol took place .

In 1992 the gasometer was torn down and the role as a landmark was taken over by the Sandreuth CHP power plant , which was built right next to it in 1982 . The former clock house and the gas purifier building of the gas works have been preserved and are protected as architectural monuments with number D-5-64-000-1730 .

Web links

literature

  • "Light - Power - Heat" - The history of the Nuremberg gas supply . Publisher: W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921 590-85-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Nuremberg gas works
  2. ^ Nuremberg gas works

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 13.2 "  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 43.2"  E