Schmidthorst pumping station

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The Schmidthorst pumping station is a hydraulic structure built by the Emschergenossenschaft in 1929 in the Duisburg district of Obermarxloh , Hamborn .

The pumping station in the catchment area of the Kleine Emscher was needed due to subsidence caused by mining , which no longer ensured drainage of Hamborn . In the age of New Objectivity , Alfred Fischer designed the system consisting of the pump building and the neighboring residential building, which is connected to a single-storey wing. The building, made up of simple geometric shapes, has a no-frills brick facade with a concrete frame around the horizontally structured ribbon windows. In terms of style, the system is therefore very different from the Alte Emscher pumping station , which was also designed by Fischer and built 15 years earlier. Rather, it continues the style of cubic functionalism that Fischer had shown two years earlier at the Schwelgern pumping station .

In 1985 the city of Duisburg declared the building a technical monument .

The technical equipment consists of six pumps (together 1320 kilowatts) with a maximum delivery rate of 6250 liters per second. The Schmidthorst pumping station is part of themed routes 3 and 13 of the Route of Industrial Culture .