Lüttringhauser water tower
The Lüttringhauser water tower is a building that characterizes the town and landscape in the Bergisch city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Location and history
The water tower is located east of the district of Lüttringhausen near the federal motorway 1 in Garschager Heide .
It was built in 1914 to supply water to the then still independent town of Lüttringhausen on Garschager Heide on an elevation about 330 meters above sea level. The tower held this function until 1973, when a newly built elevated tank in the neighboring district of Lennep was put into operation for this purpose.
After years of vacancy, the tower, which is now privately owned, was converted for residential purposes and resurfaced.
description
The listed building consists of plastered masonry. The upper floors, on which the water tank is still located, only protrude insignificantly from the round tower shaft. They have a octagonal shape, possess as well as the shaft small windows and are as well as the roof of the tower verschiefert .
The tower is a landmark that can be seen from afar .
Individual evidence
- ↑ private homepage with historical data about Lüttringhausen
- ↑ current no. 199 (on p. 6) in the list of monuments of the city of Remscheid (status: 23 June 2014 ( memento from 6 November 2014 in the Internet Archive ), online on the city's website as a PDF file (572 kB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '43.3 " N , 7 ° 15' 3.7" E