Gispersleben power plant
| Gispersleben power plant | |
|---|---|
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| location | |
| country | Germany |
| place | Erfurt |
| Data | |
| Type | Thermal power station |
| Primary energy | Fossil energy |
| fuel | coal |
| Start of operations | circa 1901 |
| Shutdown | 1996 |
The Gispersleben power plant was a coal-fired power plant in the Gispersleben district of Erfurt , Zittauer Straße 31. It was demolished in 2016.
history
In the fall of 1901 from acquired Leipzig had moved engineer Max Lange the close of Kilianskirche preferred post mill by one of the Gera abgezeigten mill race was run. He had it converted into a modern power station within a few months and was the first entrepreneur in the Erfurt area to only offer AC and three-phase connections . In 1903 seven parishes were already connected to the plant, and more followed. In 1909 the private company was converted into a public limited company. In 1915, Elektrizitätswerk Gispersleben AG merged with Elektrizitätswerk Weimar to form Kraftwerk Thüringen Aktiengesellschaft , based in Gispersleben.
In 1923 the company was taken over by the Thuringia factory that had just been founded . The Gispersleben power plant switched to coal in the following year due to growing electricity demand. In the 1920s and 1930s it was repeatedly expanded with new buildings. In 1936, an office and workshop building was added to the plans by the Erfurt architect Theo Kellner . In April 1945, shortly before the end of the war, there was heavy fighting between Germans and Americans in the area of the power station.
In 1948, the company was expropriated by SMAD and renamed the Gispersleben power plant . In the 1950s, as a state-owned company , it remained an important power generator in the region. In 1962 the newly built Gispersleben gas turbine power plant , the only one in the former GDR, and the Gispersleben substation went into operation. The steam power plant was converted into a thermal power plant, which also supplied the surrounding businesses and residential areas with district heating. 1969 to 1972 the machinery was expanded. The first customers in 1971 were the VEB Ziegelkombinat Erfurt and the residential area Rieth . This was followed by the Mittelhausen greenhouse combine , the Erfurt fruit and vegetable wholesaler and the Moskauer Platz and Roter Berg residential areas .
In 1979 the power plant became part of the Erfurt Energy Combine . A new cogeneration plant complex with four individual plants was built on Schwerborner Strasse, 5 km to the east. The Gispersleben power plant, which is now quite prone to failure, was taken off the grid in spring 1989.
After the reunification, the combine was converted back into a stock corporation on July 1, 1990, which later became part of Thüringer Energie AG . The thermal power station served as a reserve power station until 1992. In 1996 the gas turbine power plant was also shut down. As part of the Geraaue , the areas were declared a floodplain in the Erfurt zoning plan , which made structural reuse more difficult. In 2005, the dismantling of the technical systems and ancillary buildings began. The main building from the 1920s and 1930s was placed under monument protection. However, since no suitable subsequent users could be found, it was canceled in winter 2016. The area is now to be redesigned as Kilianipark and Nördliche Geraaue as part of the Federal Horticultural Show 2021 .
literature
- Iris Pelny: Erfurts ruins: old thermal power station in Gispersleben orphaned. Thuringian General , Erfurt, October 26, 2012 [1]
- Iris Pelny: New energy is flowing into the old Gispersleben heating plant. Thuringian General, Erfurt, January 15, 2013 [2]
- Holger Wetzel: Doubts about the demolition of the heating plant in Gispersleben. Thuringian General, Erfurt, August 10, 2015 [3]
- Hartmut Schwarz: construction road in Gispersleben easier dismantling of the heating plant. Thüringer Landeszeitung , Erfurt December 18, 2015 [4]
- Siegmar Neuhaus, Peter Glatz, Klemens Will: Das Thüringenwerk: a look back at the history of electricity in Thuringia . 2nd Edition. TEAG, 2003.
Web links
- Robert Müller: Demolition of the Erfurt-Gispersleben thermal power station. Mohr Media TV production, MDR Thuringia , February 5, 2016.
- Gispi.de: Power plant is being demolished
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Thuringia power plant in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mueller 2016
- ↑ Buresch, Anja: Battle for Erfurt. The American occupation of the city in April 1945. Erfurt 2016. ISBN 3954007185 .