Machine house with water tower (LVR Clinic Düren)

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The machine house with water tower is a building on the premises of the LVR Clinic Düren in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . Like all structures on the site of the former Provincial Sanatorium, the building was built between 1874 and 1878.

The structure has an integrated water tower in neo-Romanesque forms. The two-storey machine house is on the eaves facing the central axis with a five-storey, elaborately designed water tower on a square floor plan with bevelled corners . The building was made of bricks . The walls and cornices are made of red sandstone . The original roof structure was destroyed in World War II and replaced by a flat roof. Inside is a riveted rectangular steel container.

The building is registered under No. 1 / 001l in the list of monuments of the city of Düren.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Pawliczek, Heike Kussinger-Stankovic: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1993. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. Vol. 82, 1993, ISSN  0416-4180 , pp. 95-130.

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 3 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 58"  E