Schwelgern pumping station

The Schwelgern pumping station is a hydraulic structure built in 1927 in the Marxloh- Schwelgern district of Duisburg .

The pumping station, with its original total output of 940 kilowatts, was not built for drainage due to subsidence caused by mining , but was built after the dike in the Rhine near the Hamborner district of Marxloh. Since the water in the district could no longer flow off by itself, it had to be pumped over the dike. The dike was carried out after the strong Rhine flood of 1920, the temporary pumping stations installed afterwards were replaced with the new building. As a side effect, the swampy Schwelgernbruch could be drained, which resulted in today's Schwelgernpark . With a catchment area of 210 hectares, the pumping station is one of the smallest in the Emschergenossenschaft .

The building was designed by the architect Alfred Fischer , who also designed the Alte Emscher pumping station thirteen years earlier and the Schmidthorst pumping station two years later. The ensemble of pumping station, residential building and office, consisting of simple geometric shapes, looks like interpenetrating cubes. It was created in the New Objectivity style and is emphasized horizontally by the ribbon windows. The facade is completely faced with Oldenburg clinker bricks. The buildings were erected as a single unit for the benefit of the overall effect; because of the subsidence, a separate development would have made more sense technically.

In 1981 the pumping station was expanded to include a smaller dry weather pumping station, and in 1999 the city of Duisburg placed the system under a preservation order. The Schwelgern pumping station is part of themed routes 3, 13, 28 and 31 of the Route of Industrial Culture .

Web links

Commons : Pumpwerk Schwelgern - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
Brochure from the Emschergenossenschaft on the pumping stations (PDF file; 1.41 MB)
Entry in the monuments list of the city of Duisburg

51.511273 6.742304Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 40.6 " N , 6 ° 44 ′ 32.3" E