Reisholz power plant
| Reisholz power plant | |||
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 (between the two chimneys the mast on the right bank of the Rhine of the 110 kV Rhine crossing ) |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 ′ 41 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 51 ″ E | ||
| Waters | Rhine | ||
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| Type | coal-fired power station | ||
| fuel | Hard coal | ||
| power | 130 MW (electric) | ||
| owner | RWE | ||
| Start of operations | 1909 | ||
| Shutdown | 1966 (demolished in 1974) | ||
The Reisholz power plant was a coal-fired power plant operated by RWE on the Rhine in the south of Düsseldorf .
The hard coal power plant built in 1908 in the then rural community of Holthausen - Itter was at times the largest of its kind in the world and an important pillar for power generation in the still young RWE network. The output was gradually expanded to a maximum of 130 MW until the power plant was shut down in 1966 due to lack of economic efficiency and demolished in 1974.
history
In 1906 the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk (RWE) took over the Bergische Elektrizitätswerk (BEW) in Solingen . The BEW supplied the Bergisches Land with a coal-fired power station built in 1898 in Müngsten . The Müngsten power plant should not be expanded any further because of the complex transport of coal. Instead, RWE looked for a more suitable location for a new power plant and found it in an area of the former mayor's office of Benrath , directly on the Rhine, where the coal could conveniently be unloaded directly from the ship.
The name Reisholz can be traced back to the development company for industry, Industrie-Terrains-Düsseldorf- Reisholz AG (IDR). They developed suitable plots of land suitable for industrial settlement for the entire south of today's Düsseldorf, which were often outside the relatively small municipality of Reisholz . Some of these companies located outside of Reisholz still used Reisholz in the name .
In 1908/1909 the Reisholz power plant was built with three 5 MW turbines. A Rhine port was built east of the power plant. After the central station in Essen and the Berggeist power plant, the power plant was the third coal-fired power plant in the network of the young, growing RWE. It made a significant contribution to the electrification of the Bergisches Land. and initially supplied the southern parts of the RWE that were previously supplied by Essen, as well as most of the BEW's territory. In 1911 the RWE was reorganized and the Reisholz Headquarters subdivision was responsible for supplying its area and took part in an electricity exchange. In 1912 the turbines suffered from malfunctions several times. In 1912 the headquarters of the BEW was relocated from Solingen- Ohligs to Reisholz. The later RWE board member Arthur Koepchen became head of the Reisholz site . In 1912 two 15 MW steam turbines were installed and the power plant was connected to the Berggeist power plant with a 15 kV ring cable.
The power plant was expanded to 75 MW during the war and was the largest hard coal power plant in the world after the end of the First World War in 1918. Attracted by the cheap logistics (Rhine port) and energy supply, an industrial area was formed next to the power plant, in which consumers of process steam and district heating (especially an oil refinery) also settled.
From 1917, the RWE supply networks in the Ruhr area, in the Bergisches Land and in the Rhineland were connected by a 110 kV high-voltage line between the Reisholz power plant and the Goldenberg power plant . At Reisholz the Rhine crossed with two masts visible from afar (see picture). The Reisholz Rhine overhead line crossing was the cornerstone for the supra-regional network economy in the RWE network.
During the war, boiler defects and the delivery of hard coal were problematic. In 1920 there was a serious boiler explosion in boiler house III . The entire boiler house was badly damaged and 27 workers died. This explosion subsequently led to a tightening of the technical regulations for the construction and operation of steam boilers in Germany.
In 1924 the capacity was 75 MW, contributing 15% to the total output of the RWE.
Because of the global economic crisis in the early 1930s, the power plant was temporarily shut down. It was modernized and expanded so that it could be put back into operation in 1933, but was largely destroyed by aerial bomb attacks in the Second World War .
From 1946 the reconstruction took place with increased output of up to 130 MW. Over the years, however, it turned out that the power plant lagged far behind the RWE power plants in the Rhenish lignite district ( Fortuna , Frimmersdorf , Weisweiler , ...). In 1966 it was closed at short notice. In 1974 boiler and machine houses were demolished.
After that, RWE maintained an operational administration and a regional supply point for network operations at the Reisholz location for a long time . At the turn of the millennium and the merger with VEW, this was also closed. Today only a substation and the overhead line crossing the Rhine, which still exists at the old location, point to the former power station location.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and death of BV Reisholz in: RWE Chronicle, No. 16, 2001, on: www.koegoe.de (PDF; 2.9 MB)
- ^ RWE AG: Chronicle 1898–1920 at www.rwe.com
- ^ A b Edmund Todd: “From Essen to Regional Power Supply, 1890-1920. The Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk “ , in: Helmut Maier (Hrsg.): Electricity economy between environment, technology and politics: Aspects from 100 years of RWE history 1898–1998, Freiberg 1999, p. 39f.
- ^ A b Edmund Todd: “From Essen to Regional Power Supply, 1890-1920. The Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk “ , in: Helmut Maier (Ed.): Electricity economy between environment, technology and politics: Aspects from 100 years of RWE history 1898–1998, Freiberg 1999, p. 43f.
- ^ Thomas P. Hughes: Networks of Power. Electrification in Western Society. 1880-1930 , London 1983, p. 409.