Gasometer streaks

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gasometer streaks
Gasometer streaks
Gasometer No. 1
Location data
State : Switzerland
Region : Canton Zurich
City : Streaks
Construction data
Construction: 1899
Technical specifications
Type: Telescopic gas container
Usable volume : 25,000-100,000
Others

Restoration until 2005

The gasometers in Schlieren in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland were originally four telescopic gas tanks from 1899. The homeland security was able to save the gasometer No. 1 from demolition and had it renovated by 2005.

technology

The gasometers were four cylindrical telescopic gas containers with a gas volume of 25,000 to 100,000 cubic meters, which stood in a water basin.

The gasometer today

Gasometer No. 1 was renovated between 2003 and 2005 and officially opened on November 26, 2005.

literature

  • Christian Koller : Energy for the City of Zurich: The Schlieren Gas Works, 1938, in: Christian Koller / Raymond Naef (ed.): Chronicler of Social Switzerland: Photographs by Ernst Koehli 1933–1953. Baden: Here and Now 2019. pp. 24–31.

Web links

Commons : Gasometer Schlieren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '5 "  N , 8 ° 27' 53.2"  E ; CH1903:  677,459  /  two hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and sixty-eight