Gasworks at Kirchstein

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The gas works at Kirchstein was the second gas works in Munich . It was located in today's Steinhausen district and was in operation from 1883 to 1927.

location

The gasworks at Kirchstein was on Einsteinstrasse outside the Leuchtenbergring in the corner between Truderinger Strasse and the railroad tracks, at today's “ Vogelweideplatz ”. This section of Einsteinstrasse was then called “Am Kirchstein” after a brickworks in which the bricks for the construction of the new Haidhausen parish church of St. Johann Baptist were made. Today the Munich tram depot and a recycling center are located on the former gasworks site .

history

When the capacities of Munich's first gasworks, the gasworks on Thalkirchner Strasse , were no longer sufficient, construction of a second gasworks began in 1881 according to plans by Nikolaus Heinrich Schilling. In 1883 the production of coal gas began there .

The gas works was expanded several times. From 1885 to 1887 a first expansion was carried out with a second gas boiler, furnace house and coal shed, in 1890/91 a third gas boiler, furnace house and coal shed were built, and from 1900 to 1906 a fourth furnace house with coal shed followed, but no further gas boiler.

In 1894 the site of the gas works in the western part of Steinhausen, which at that time belonged to the municipality of Berg am Laim , was incorporated into Munich.

After the advent of electric lighting, less and less luminous gas was required, and in 1927 the gasworks at Kirchstein ceased operations. The outbuildings of the power plant were demolished in 1932, and the gas containers continued to be used as storage rooms. They were so badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1942 that they were demolished in 1943.

literature

  • Willibald Karl (Ed.): Bogenhausen. From a rural parish village to a posh district. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-927984-11-6 .
  • Roland Krack: Neighborhood. In: Roland Krack (Ed.): The Parkstadt Bogenhausen in Munich. Volk Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-937200-10-X , pp. 20-22.
  • Roland Krack: Am Kirchstein - Steinhauser story. In: NordOstMagazin. Association NordOstKultur 2019, p. 44. (nordostkultur-muenchen.de)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 18 ″  E