Nettebach pumping station

Nettebach pumping station

The Nettebach pumping station is a hydraulic structure built by the Emschergenossenschaft in Dortmund in 1951 .

The pumping station ensures water retention in the north of Dortmund in the 1,032 hectare catchment area of ​​the Nettebach , near Westhusen Castle . Due to subsidence caused by mining , the brook in the upper reaches, which was built between 1913 and 1932, had sunk so far that an area of ​​150 hectares was permanently under water. In order to be able to erect the pumping station in difficult terrain, it was founded using a 10.6 meter high caisson made of 530 m³ concrete, which was lowered 10 meters into the earthwork.

The Nettebach pumping station, which is part of theme route 13 of the Route of Industrial Culture , has a maximum delivery rate of 6,500 liters per second.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 35.2 "  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 30"  E