Kesselhaus (Speicherstadt)
The boiler house is a listed building in Hamburg's Speicherstadt .
Description and history
The building was constructed from 1886 to 1887 according to plans by the architect Franz Andreas Meyer . It was a three-storey operating wing with a single-storey boiler hall and a low tower on Sandtorkai in the Speicherstadt, which today belongs to HafenCity .
As a power plant for the Speicherstadt, its energy supply was initially independent of the rest of the city. In the boiler house, electricity was produced for lighting the storage facilities as well as compressed air for operating the hydraulic winches, cranes, lifting platforms and stair lifts in the Speicherstadt. As a boiler house, it supplied energy for a neighboring central machine station, which distributed the water in a closed circuit to drive the winches to all neighboring storage tanks. A hydraulic winch was used to transport the goods to the warehouse floors. As early as 1888, the building's lighting was fully electrified for fire protection reasons.
During the Second World War, the boiler house was badly damaged in bombing raids . In addition, technical progress made a steam supply for the Speicherstadt unnecessary and drives were replaced by electrical machines.
From 1999 to 2000 the building was rebuilt and restored according to plans by the architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners , with the lost chimneys being replaced by steel lattice structures. Since then, the building has been used as a HafenCity InfoCenter .
The Körber Foundation offered via the Körber Forum a regular program of lectures, artist talks, book presentations u. Ä. on. Every year from 1994 to 2018, theater performances by the Hamburger Jedermann took place on an open stage behind the Kesselhaus .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg - The great architecture guide . 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 294-295 .
- ↑ hamburger-jedermann.de
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Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '35.8 " N , 9 ° 59" 24.9 " E