List of decommissioned power plants in Germany

This list provides an overview of decommissioned power plants and - if known - their respective nominal output .

Fossil-thermal power plants

Hard coal

power plant	Power in MW	Location	Operating time	operator	Remarks
Rothensee thermal power station	4 × 25 MW, 1 × 3 MW	Magdeburg-Rothensee	1934–199?		1945: 2 × 25 MW and 1 × 3 MW dismantled as reparations, 197 ?: partially converted to natural gas, 199 ?: demolition for waste incineration
Mittelsteine ​​railway power station	32 MW	Mittelsteine , Lower Silesia (now Poland)	1914-1945	Kingdom of Prussia, after 1920: Deutsche Reichsbahn	Railway power plant for the Lower Silesian mountain routes
BASF Marl power plant		Marl	196? –1989		first power plant with a 300 meter chimney in Germany
Cuno power plant	86 el , 25 th	Herdecke	1908-2004	Municipal electricity company "Mark" AG (Elektromark)
Electricity works II (Darmstadt)	4.4	Darmstadt , Dornheimer Weg	1909-1975	City of Darmstadt, from 1912: Hessische Eisenbahn-AG (HEAG)
Electricity works Goebbelgasse		Aachen , Goebbelgasse	1908–?	City Aachen
Joint venture Hattingen	25th	Hattingen , Isenbergstrasse	1912-1984	from 1925 VEW
Large power plant in Hanover	37.5	Ahlem near Hanover	1925–1950 (?)	from 1927 PreussenElektra
Müllerstrasse thermal power station		Munich-Isarvorstadt	1955-2001	Stadtwerke Munich
Schwabing thermal power station		Munich-Schwabing	1908 - approx. 1960	Stadtwerke Munich	The turbine hall was preserved and used as a district heating conversion station
Scholven high pressure power plant		Gelsenkirchen-Scholven	1936–?
Aschaffenburg coal-fired power station	300	Aschaffenburg	1952-2000	E.ON (Bayernwerk)	also  traction current
Bobrek power station		Beuthen , Upper Silesia (now Poland)	1923-1945	Gräflich Schaffgott'sche Werke GmbH
Castrop-Rauxel power plant	295	Castrop-Rauxel	1956-2001	E.ON
Dettingen power plant	100	Karlstein	-2001	RWE
Dortmund power plant	2	Dortmund	1897 -?	City of Dortmund, from 1925: VEW
Duisburg-Hochfeld power plant (HKW I and II)	I: 95 II: 133	Duisburg-Hochfeld	I: 1985-2018 II: 1965-2012	DVV
Elberfeld power plant	70 el , 198 th	Wuppertal - Elberfeld	1888-2018	Bergische Elektrizitäts -versorgung-Gesellschaft mbH
Ensdorf power plant	430	Ensdorf	1961-2017	RWE Generation
Flingern  II power plant	initially 22, later 58	Düsseldorf-Flingern	1913-1978	City of Düsseldorf
Franken II power plant	400	gain	1967-2001	E.ON
Gneisenau power plant		Dortmund	1963-1990
GROWAG Großkraftwerk Altwürttemberg AG	2 × 15	Heilbronn	1923-1954	GROWAG, today EnBW , the building is now used as an event center and indoor climbing garden
Werdohl-Elverlingsen power plant	301	Werdohl	1912-2018	Brand
Heegermühle power plant	19.2	Eberswalde , on the Finow Canal	1909-1991	Märkisches Elektricitätswerk AG (MEW) / VEB Energiekombinat Frankfurt (Oder)
Hindenburg power plant		Hindenburg , Upper Silesia (now Poland)	1897-1945	Upper Silesian Electricity Works (OEW)
Ibbenbüren power plant, Block A	150	Ibbenbueren	1967-1987	RWE Power AG
Karnap power plant		Food karnap	1940–?	Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG (RWE)
Joint power station in Kiel	354 MWel (gross), 295 MWth district heating	Kiel	1970-2019	Stadtwerke Kiel AG
Gustav Knepper power plant	360	Castrop-Rauxel	1971-2014	Uniper power plants
Koenigshütte power plant		Königshütte , Upper Silesia (now Poland)	1898-1945	Upper Silesian Electricity Works (OEW)
Kruckel power plant		Dortmund - Kruckel	1908–?	built by RWE , taken over by VEW in 1908
Lahde power plant	120	Lahde	1941–?	Preussische Elektrizitäts-AG (PreussenElektra)
Lünen power plant	507	Luenen	1938-2018	STEAG
Marbach I power plant		Marbach am Neckar	1942-1981	Energy supply Schwaben (EVS), today EnBW
Lower Rhine power plant	15th	Wesel	1910–?	RWE
East Hanover power plant	140	Old Garge	1946-1974	Hamburg Electricity Works
Reisholz power plant	130	Düsseldorf rice wood	1909-1966	RWE
Berlin-Reuter thermal power station	132 MWel gross, 331 MWth district heating	Berlin-Siemensstadt	1969-2019	Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG	is only used for district heating (natural gas and PtH )
Rottweil power plant		Rottweil	1916–?
Veltheim power plant		Porta Westfalica	1959-2015	Veltheim GmbH community power plant
Westerholt power plant	300	Gelsenkirchen-Hassel	1959-2002,	E.ON	Blasted on December 3, 2006
Nike power plant Ibbenbueren	12	Ibbenbueren	1912-1958	Niedersächsische Kraftwerke AG (Nike), later RWE
Preussag ballast power plant Ibbenbüren	92	Ibbenbueren	1954-1985	Preussag
RWE- "Central"	1.2	Eating old people	1899–?	Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG ( RWE )
" South Central "	1	Wilhelmshaven , at the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge	1909-1993	German Empire (Naval Treasury)
Westkraftwerk (Dresden)		Dresden - Wilsdruffer suburb	1900–?	City of Dresden	Expanded in 1910 and 1927
Datteln power plant , block 1, block 2, block 3	95 95 113	Dates	1964-2014 1965 - 2014 1969 - 2014	E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH
Voerde power plant	2030	Voerde	1971-2017	STEAG
Power plant of the Frankfurt-Offenbacher Trambahn-Gesellschaft	0.19	Upper wheel	1884-1906	Frankfurt-Offenbach Tramway Company

Brown coal

KW name	Power in MW	Location	Uptime Notes	Chimney height in m	operator
Brottewitz power plant	26th	Mühlberg / Elbe	1991-2019; Self-contained power supply and steam supply for sugar factory		Südzucker AG
Harbke power station	147.5	Harbke	1909–1990, VEB Energiekombinat Magdeburg	1 × 130 1 ×?	Braunschweig coal mines (1915–1952) and VEB Energiekombinat Magdeburg (1952–1990)
Muldenstein railway power station	11.3	Muldenstein	1912-12. November 1994, traction power plant	3 × 103	Deutsche Reichsbahn or Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR)
Power plant south	230	Bitterfeld ( Saxony-Anhalt )	1915–1990, 300 m long machine hall, total coal consumption: 170,000,000 t (corresponds to 70,833 coal trains per 240 t), electrical energy generated from 1915–1988: 73,639,980,650  kWh	2 × 145, 4 × 88	1915–1945 Griesheimer Chemische Fabrik Elektron AG, 1946–1969 VEB Elektrochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld (EKB), 1969–1990 VEB Chemiekombinat Bitterfeld (CKB)
"City of Görlitz" lignite works	1.103	near Kohlfurt ( Lower Silesia ) (today: Węgliniec , Poland )	1895-1920, 3 × 500 hp
Niederlößnitz power station	0.34	Wahnsdorf , today Radebeul ( Lößnitzgrund )	1895–1928 and 1945–1962, 1896: 2 × 250 hp steam engines		Electricity works Niederlößnitz (community association) , from 1920  Electricity association Gröba
Lossewerk		Kassel-Bettenhausen	1912–?
Kleinsaubernitz power station	0.441	Malschwitz-Kleinsaubernitz	1912–1927/1930, 2 × 300 hp		Upper Lusatian lignite stock corporation.
Fortuna  I power plant		Fortunagrube near Bergheim-Oberaussem	1912-1965		Rheinische Elektrizitätswerke im Braunkohlenrevier AG (REW)
Großkayna power plant		Braunsbedra-Großkayna	1920-1972		Elektrizitätswerk Sachsen-Anhalt AG (Esag), later VEB Energiekombinat Halle
Zschornewitz power plant	597	Zschornewitz	1915–1998, July 1, 1992 steam power plant shut down / December 31, 1998 gas turbine power plants shut down	2 × 100	Elektrowerke AG (EWAG), VEB Kraftwerke "Elbe", later VEAG , today Vattenfall Europe
Halle-Trotha power plant (old plant) (also "Rudolf Breitscheid")	40 (originally)	Halle (Saale)	1926-1993		lastly energy supply hall
Arzberg power plant	89 + 107 (+220) +130	Arzberg	1915–2003, the 220 MW block was operated with natural gas	193	BELG / EVO / EON Bavaria
Lauta power plant	173 [(1938)]	Lauta	1917–1990, built to supply the "Lautawerk" (aluminum works) with energy		United Aluminum-Werke AG (VAW), then Mitteldeutsche Kraftwerk AG, since 1919: Elektrowerke AG (EWAG)
Trattendorf large power plant	160.5	Trattendorf	1918–1945 (dismantling as reparation )		Niederlausitzer Kraftwerke AG, since 1919: Elektrowerke AG (EWAG)
Fortuna  II power plant		Fortunagrube near Bergheim-Oberaussem	1922-1988	73	Rheinische Elektrizitätswerke im Braunkohlenrevier AG (REW), later: RWE
Finkenheerd power plant	270 MW el (96 MW) el	Brieskow-Finkenheerd , on Brieskower See	1923–1992 (change in machine inventory due to dismantling and machine damage)	6 × 110/125	Märkisches Elektrizitätswerk (MEW) / VEB Energiekombinat Frankfurt (Oder)
Large Main-Weser power station	32 el 356 th	Borken (Hesse)	1923-1991	100 and 160	Main-Weser Power Plant Union, later: Preußische Elektrizitäts-AG ( PreußenElektra )
Plessa power plant	54	Plessa	1927–1992, 1946 dismantling of turbine 4 (20 MW) as a reparation payment	115.2 / 120	Electricity Association Gröba / Elster
"Y power plant"		Leverkusen	1936–1986 (?), Of the "chimney-free power plant" type (power plant engineer Karl Hencky)		IG Farbenindustrie AG, after 1945 Bayer AG
Vockerode power plant	576	Vockerode	1937–1994, 432 MW lignite and 144 MW gas / oil	140	VEB Kraftwerke "Elbe", VEAG , today Vattenfall Europe
Upper Lusatia power plant		Neusalza-Spremberg	1898–?
Espenhain power plant	450	Aspen grove	1942–1990 / 1996		AG Sächsische Werke, since 1940: AG for fuel systems (AKA), after 1945 German-Soviet AG Sächsische Werke
Trattendorf Power Plant Plant I and III	450	Trattendorf	1954-1996		LAUBAG
Hagenwerder power station	1500	Goerlitz-Hagenwerder	1958-1997, 4 × 75, 2 × 100, 2 × 500	4 × 75 m, 1 × 100 m, 1 × 250 m	VEAG , today Vattenfall Europe
Old Lippendorf power station	600 el 550 th	Neukieritzsch-Lippendorf	1968-2000, 4 x 100 + 4 x 50	300	VEAG , today Vattenfall Europe
Lübbenau power plant	1300	Luebbenau	1959–1994, Plant I 6 × 50 MW, II 6 × 100 MW, III 4 × 100 MW (last block blown up in 2010)	7 × 140 m	VEAG
Mumsdorf power plant	60 (net)	Mumsdorf	1968-2013		Mibrag
Thierbach power plant	840	Kitzscher-Thierbach	1969-1999, 4 x 210 MW	300	VEAG , today Vattenfall Europe
Vetschau power plant	1200	Vetschau	1964-1996, 12 x 100 MW		VEAG
Hirschfelde power plant	330	Zittau-Hirschfelde	1911-1992		VEAG
Wölfersheim power plant	124	Wölfersheim , Wetterauer Revier, Hesse	1913-1991		HEFRAG (100% subsidiary of PreußenElektra )
Schwandorf power plant		Schwandorf -Dachelhofen, Upper Palatinate Revier, Bavaria	1930-2002	235	Bavarian Brown Coal Industry AG (BBI)
Nossener Brücke thermal power station		Dresden - Löbtau	1965-1993, 1995 CCGT replaced building new dikes
Central heating plant		Dresden - Wilsdruffer suburb
Guben thermal power station		Guben	1964-2001	130	VEB man-made fiber works Guben
Goldenberg power plant	40	Hürth 50 ° 51 '40.5 "  N , 006 ° 50' 07.3"  O	1905 - 2015, Continued supply of steam for the neighboring chemical park and paper manufacturer	110 m	RWE Power

Others

KW name	Power in MW	Energy source	Location	Uptime Notes	Chimney height	operator
Kaiser Wilhelm Shaft (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)	4.5	water	Clausthal-Zellerfeld	1912–1980 (closed)
Ottiliae shaft (Clausthal-Zellerfeld)	1.5	water	Clausthal-Zellerfeld	1912–1980 (closed)
Bochum thermal power station	21st	natural gas	Bochum	2004 - 2018		RWE Generation SE
Cottbus diesel power plant		diesel	cottbus	1928-1959		City of Cottbus
Traction current thermal power plant Frankfurt am Main	12	Electric energy (traction current: 16 2/3 Hz) (used to heat the railway's own buildings and objects)	Frankfurt am Main	1966- ?; Sale of land: 2009; demolished in 2015		DB energy
Freimann thermal power station	160	Natural gas (2 GT)	Munich	1974-2015		Stadtwerke Munich
Schilling power plant (Hollern-Twielenfleth)		oil	Hollern-Twielenfleth	1962–? (shut down)	220 m	Northwest German Power Plants AG (Hamburg)
Meppen-Hüntel power plant	627 gross	gas	Meppen	1974-2000	140 m	RWE
Brunsbüttel gas turbine power plant	256 gross	Heating oil	Brunsbuettel	1973-2017		Vattenfall Europe GmbH
Oberhausen-Sterkrade thermal power station (HKW 2)	25 (gross)	natural gas	Oberhausen	1996-2019		Energy supply Oberhausen AG
Moorburg gas power plant	1000	gas	Hamburg-Moorburg	1974-2001, blown up in 2004	256 m	HEW , today Vattenfall Europe
Pleinting power station	725 (300 + 425)	Heating oil EL	Pleinting	1968–2011 (closed)	180 m	E.ON
Rühle peat power plant	6.6	peat	Meppen-Rühle	1929–1974 (closed)		Siemens
Municipal power station (Schwerin)		Gas / diesel	Schwerin	1904-1967		City of Schwerin
Diesel engine operating power plant (Sömmerda)			Sömmerda	1912–?		Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik AG ( Rheinmetall )
Wiesmoor peat power station	13	peat	Wiesmoor	1909–1966 (closed and demolished)		Siemens , then Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke AG
Cavern power station Drei-Brüder-Schacht (Oberwerk)			Zug (Freiberg)	1914-1948, 1953-1972
Drei-Brüder-Schacht underground power station (substation)			Zug (Freiberg)	1924-1951, 1953-1969

Nuclear power plants

KW name	Power in MW	Reactor type / series	Location	Uptime Notes	operator
Greifswald nuclear power plant	2200	VVER -440	Lubmin	4 × - / 230 + 1 × - / 213, 1974-1989	VE Kombinat Kernkraftwerke Bruno Leuschner Greifswald, dismantling by Energiewerke Nord
Rheinsberg nuclear power plant	70	VVER -210	Rheinsberg	The first nuclear power plant built abroad by the former Soviet Union and the first economically operated nuclear reactor in the GDR , 1966–1990	VE Kombinat Kernkraftwerke Bruno Leuschner Greifswald, dismantling by Energiewerke Nord
AVR (Jülich)	15th	HTR	Jülich	first German high-temperature reactor, 1969–1988	Arbeitsgemeinschaft Versuchsreaktor GmbH, dismantling by Energiewerke Nord
Großwelzheim nuclear power plant	25th	Superheated steam reactor -SWR	Karlstein am Main	Experimental reactor, 1970/1971	Research Center Karlsruhe
Kahl nuclear power plant	16	SWR	Karlstein am Main	1. German NPP (experimental reactor), 1961–1985	Test nuclear power plant Kahl GmbH, now RWE and Bayernwerk
KNK Karlsruhe	21st	Breeder	Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen	Sodium Cooled Nuclear Reactor, 1979-1991	Nuclear power plant operating company MBH
Lingen nuclear power plant	268	SWR	Lingen	82 MW from a fossil superheater, 1969–1979	VEW , now RWE
Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power plant	1302	DWR	Mülheim-Kärlich	shut down due to incorrect building permit, 1987/1988	Société Luxembourgeoise de Centrales Nucléaires, subsidiary of RWE
Multipurpose research reactor Karlsruhe	58	DWR	Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen	Test facility for PWR , 1965–1985	Research Center Karlsruhe
Niederaichbach nuclear power plant	100	Pressure tube reactor	Niederaichbach	Carbon dioxide -cooled and moderated with heavy water , 1973/1974	Bayernwerk AG
Obrigheim nuclear power plant	357	DWR	Obrigheim	light water moderated , 1969–2005	EnBW
Stade nuclear power plant	672	DWR	Hollern-Twielenfleth	1972-2003	E.ON and Vattenfall
THTR-300 nuclear power plant	308	HTR	Feasting	1987/1988	HKG
Würgassen nuclear power plant	670	SWR	Beverungen-Würgassen	Closed due to technical defects, 1971–1994	PreussenElektra , now E.ON
Krümmel nuclear power plant	1402	SWR	Geesthacht crumbs	out of operation after an incident since 2007, shutdown as part of the energy transition, 1984–2011	Vattenfall and E.ON
Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant	806	SWR	Brunsbuettel	Out of service after an incident since 2007, shutdown as part of the energy transition, 1977–2011	Vattenfall and E.ON
Biblis nuclear power plant	2525	DWR	Biblis	2 reactors, 1225 MW and 1300 MW gross, shutdown as part of the energy transition, 1975 / 77–2011	RWE
Unterweser nuclear power plant	1410	DWR	Stadland	Shutdown as part of the energy transition, 1979–2011	E.ON
Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant	1345	DWR	Grafenrheinfeld	Shutdown as part of the energy transition, 1982–2015	E.ON

Power plant shutdown notifications (shutdown list)

The Federal Network Agency leads the list of power plant decommissioning ads (closure list) a list of decommissioning ads legally entered into the production and storage operator. In the list of the Federal Network Agency, both the planned and the preliminary and final shutdowns are listed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short story HKW Rothensee  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Anita Kuisle : power plant, school, hospital . A history of the Gärtnerplatzviertel. Verlag Franz Schiermeier, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813190-8-8 .
3. ↑ Stadtwerke Duisburg's thermal power station in Hochfeld opens its doors to visitors for the last time. Retrieved May 23, 2018 . 
4. ↑ WSW say goodbye to the Elberfeld thermal power station with a big family party: Wuppertaler Stadtwerke. Retrieved January 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ STEAG will close the Lünen power plant at the end of 2018. Accessed on January 4, 2019 . 
6. ↑ dwds.de
7. ↑ Power plants: Reuter - Vattenfall. Retrieved September 21, 2019 . 
8. ^ Henry Blumroth: Company closure: Brottewitzer sugar factory is history after 146 years. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
9. ^ Siegfried Graßmann: The Reichsbahnkraftwerk Muldenstein. In: The Deutsche Reichsbahn - 45 years of railway history in the GDR. Chapter 3.4, p. 1, GeraMond-Verlag, Gilching
10. ↑ albert-gieseler.de
11. ↑ albert-gieseler.de
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Thüringer Mitteilungen des VDI, January-April 2006 edition, p. 25 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Herrmann Wygoda: Power plant makes space for apartments. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 13, 2013.
14. ↑ wiesmoor-info.de
15. ↑ List of power plant shutdown notifications (shutdown list). Federal Network Agency . Retrieved March 5, 2017 .