Elevated tank (Deidesheim)
| Elevated tank | ||
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 View from the west |
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| place | Deidesheim | |
| Client | City of Deidesheim | |
| Architectural style | Neo-baroque | |
| Construction year | 1898 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 '10.7 " N , 8 ° 10' 16.7" E | |
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The elevated reservoir near the small town of Deidesheim in the Palatinate is a spring water reservoir for a water pipe from the Palatinate Forest that supplies Deidesheim with water. According to the monument protection law of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , the elevated tank is a cultural monument .
location
The elevated tank is located about half a kilometer southwest of Deidesheim on the Mühltalstrasse, which leads from Deidesheim into the Mühltal of the Palatinate Forest. The Weinbach flows past a few meters from the building .
history
Apart from a water pipe from the Sensental, which fed the Andreasbrunnen in Deidesheim with water, Deidesheim used to get its water mostly from wells. Because this was no longer sufficient towards the end of the 19th century, plans were made to channel water from the Gimmeldinger Valley to Deidesheim. Against this, however, resistance arose from the communities of Gimmeldingen and Mußbach . For this reason, a water pipe was first built that carried water from the Mühltal to Deidesheim. This first general aqueduct, to which Deidesheim was connected, was inaugurated and put into operation on July 17, 1898.
However, since the capacity of the new water pipe proved to be insufficient, plans for a water pipe from the Gimmeldinger Valley soon came back on the agenda. Thanks to a foundation by Seraphine von Stichaner, a daughter of the Deidesheim mayor Ludwig Andreas Jordan , who was married to Joseph Philipp von Stichaner , the plans could be realized. Seraphine von Stichaner donated 65,000 Reichsmarks to Deidesheim on August 7, 1907 for the construction of the aqueduct. The new aqueduct could already be used in May 1908. Today Deidesheim gets most of its water through this Stichaner-Jordan water pipe.
building
According to the building inscription, the elevated tank was built in 1898. It is a neo-baroque building made of sandstone, the roof of which is accessible. A bronze relief plaque is attached to the left and right of the entrance. The right one is dedicated to Seraphine von Stichaner, the left one to Ludwig Bassermann-Jordan , the mayor of Deidesheim, who died in the First World War. The panels were made by the Lenz art foundry in Nuremberg. The elaborate realization of the elevated tank is remarkable.
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 26 (PDF; 5.1 MB; see: water tank southwest of Deidesheim).
- ↑ a b Heinz Schmitt: Geissbock, wine and state visits - Deidesheim in the last 150 years . Ed .: City of Deidesheim. Verlag Pfälzer Kunst, Landau in der Pfalz 2000, ISBN 3-922580-82-3 , p. 42-43 .
- ↑ Berthold Schnabel: Deidesheim . Ed .: City of Deidesheim. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 2015, ISBN 978-3-86595-588-3 , pp. 10 .
- ^ Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X , p. 190 .