Moosach gasworks
The Moosach gasworks was the last gasworks of the Stadtwerke München . Until 1967 it was located at Dachauer Straße 148 in the Munich district of Moosach . The area comprised the area between Dachauer Strasse, Borstei , Hanauer Strasse , Georg-Brauchle-Ring and Landshuter Allee .
history
Construction began in 1906 after the former gas works on Thalkirchner Strasse and Am Kirchstein could no longer keep pace with Munich's growing gas demand. From the start of operation on April 23, 1909 to March 20, 1967, town gas was generated in the Moosach gasworks by gasifying hard coal .
A last, almost 100 meter high gas boiler was built in 1958 on today's Georg-Brauchle-Ring.
In order to make the gasworks more attractive, there were numerous offers on the gasworks site, such as a swimming pool, a canteen with bowling alley, company apartments and a sports field. Little by little, together with the actual facilities of the gasworks such as coal heaps, furnace blocks, gas containers, tar containers, coal silos, water towers, workshops and laboratories, freight yard and engine sheds, a city within the city emerged.
Natural gas has been added to town gas since 1960 (at that time the natural gas was still extracted from deposits in Isen in Upper Bavaria). Since natural gas has a higher calorific value than town gas, the natural gas had to be converted accordingly by cracking systems before the gas consumers switched over. On November 10, 1975, the gas supply to the city of Munich was completely converted to the more productive raw gas; the gasworks was finally decommissioned.
Aftermath
The now listed water tower and the former company apartments and company buildings on Emmy-Noether-Straße are still preserved today .
On the site of the gasworks there was also a 110 meter long wing of the Schrannenhalle , which was believed to be lost . After the fire in 1932, the iron scaffolding of the Schrannenhalle was erected on the gasworks site, clad with boards and used as a warehouse. It was not until 1978 that the architect and city historian Volker Hütsch realized that the scaffolding was the surviving remains of the Schrannenhalle. In the following years it was restored and put back on the original place on the Blumenstrasse.
The headquarters of Stadtwerke München is now located on the site of the gasworks. The design of the central building of the municipal works center is reminiscent of the earlier gas boilers, so that at least an impression of the old gas works is preserved. A modern light sculpture made up of 400 traffic lights, "Traffic Light Flower" by Johannes Brunner and Raimund Ritz , provides artistic animation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kulturreferat.de/flash/kgp10/KGP10_booklet_3aufl.pdf
- ↑ https://schlotforum.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/de-m-munchen-gaswerk-moosach-borstei-flugplatz-oberwiesenfeld-um-1933/
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 22 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E