Large gas works Magdeburg

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Large gas factory 1950
Young people in 1955 on a tour of the gas works

The Großgaserei Magdeburg was a hard coal coking plant in the Magdeburg district of Rothensee . It was mainly used to generate town and long-distance gas as well as metallurgical coke .

The Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft DCGG built the plant from 1929 under the name Großgaserei Mitteldeutschland in the then newly developed industrial area Magdeburg-Rothensee and put it into operation the following year. The architect of the facility was Johannes Göderitz . The gas was delivered as long-distance gas to neighboring regions, including as far as Saxony , via a network company . During the Second World War , the facility was badly damaged in bombing raids by British and American units. In 1952 the renewed, now state- owned, was put back into operation, Investment. From 1970 to 1975 the four operated coke oven batteries with a total of 115 oven chambers were gradually renewed. After German reunification in 1990, the plant was operated by Großgaserei GmbH Magdeburg, which is owned by the Treuhandanstalt , and was liquidated , shut down and demolished on March 19, 1993 .

The Großgaserei Magdeburg was part of the VEB hard coal coking plant "August Bebel" Zwickau. The coking coal from the Zwickau mining area was coked in the two Zwickau coking plants "Karl Marx" and "August Bebel". Therefore, the hard coal required initially had to be imported from the USSR and Poland and later increasingly from the non-socialist economic zone.

The by- products, which were massively PAH -containing by-products, approx. 60–90,000 Mg , were stored in tar lakes . At the beginning of the millennium, it was renovated at great expense.

Today there is a wood processing industrial company on the former site of the large gas works.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PDF at root.quadriga-eu.de ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (122 kB)
  2. ↑ State Agency for Exempting Contaminated Sites Saxony-Anhalt (PDF; 3.2 MB)

literature

  • Collective of authors: From the mining and coking plant to the Glück-Auf-Center Zwickau . Ed .: Steinkohlenbergbauverein Zwickau eV Wilkau-Haßlau 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812185-6-5 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 28 ″  E