Springorum power plant
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '12 " N , 7 ° 12' 37" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | 2000 t hard coal / day | ||
| power | 300 MW | ||
| owner | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG / Bochumer Bergbau-AG, VEBA | ||
| Project start | 1957 | ||
| Start of operations | May 1961 | ||
| Shutdown | 1986 | ||
| Chimney height | 130 m | ||
The power plant Springorum (originally power plant Prince-Regent-North ) was a coal power plant in Bochum district Weitmar .
The area of the former power plant is located southwest of today's Oviedoring , south of the waterway, east of the street An der Holtbrügge and west of the Wohlfahrt allotment garden . The coal mine Zeche Prinz Regent and the Bochum-Weitmar train station were in the immediate vicinity .
The power plant built by the Heitkamp company , based on plans by Fritz Schupp , as the general contractor from November 18, 1958 to 1961, had two units with 150 MW each, each with a dedusting system and chimney, as well as a total of four fan cooling towers from MAG Balke . The construction costs amounted to 130 million DM. The first block was started in May 1961, the second a few months later.
Originally, the directly neighboring Zeche Prinz Regent was supposed to supply the power plant with coal and absorb the fly ash from the dedusting as backfill material . However, Prince Regent was closed in 1960 before the power plant was completed. Up until March 30, 1985, coal from the Bonifacius , Graf Moltke , Holland and Germania collieries was therefore delivered via the rail connection .
In 1964, the power plant was named after Otto Springorum , the longstanding General Director of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG .
After the shutdown in 1986, the power plant technology was sold to China and the building was blown up and demolished in 1988 .
The industrial wasteland was then redesigned into the Innovation Park Springorum industrial park until 1990 . Established companies (excerpt): EBZ Business School , European Education Center for the Housing and Real Estate Industry , Carolinenschule.
The bike path that is being built on the adjacent railway line , also known as the Springorum Railway, which has now been closed, bears the name Springorum Bike Path .
The disused thermal power station in Bochum is nearby .
Web links
- Photo of the cooling towers from the 1950s
- KW Springorum in the online architecture guide Ruhrgebiet
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- o. V .: Bochum a modern city . Landesdienst-Verlag, Berlin-West 1968, p. Photos on pages 139 and 152 .
- OV .: "Half of the Prinz-Regent-Nord power plant will be put into operation in May" in: Westfälische Rundschau of March 24, 1961
- Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann: Nothing remains of the Springorum power plant in Bochum-Weitmar. WAZ Bochum, January 25, 2014, accessed on January 27, 2014 .