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 m³ |
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.
Emergency power generator in the power center , a steam engine built by Sulzer in 1904
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