RWW Ruhr waterworks Styrum-Ost

Old steam engine pump from 1896 from the Styrum / Ost waterworks. Exhibited in front of the Kahlenberg hydropower plant .

The RWW Ruhr waterworks Styrum / Ost is a waterworks in Mülheim an der Ruhr . The operator is RWW Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft mbH.

location

The waterworks is located in the Styrum district of Mülheim, directly on the Ruhr . The Aquarius Water Museum , Styrum Castle and the A 40 are in the vicinity .

The waterworks

In the Styrum / Ost waterworks, RWW maintains its central control center and central facilities, for example the workshops, the nursery and the central laboratory, with around 200 employees. The Styrum / West waterworks, which went into operation in 1955 and is monitored and controlled by Styrum / Ost, as well as all of the company's other waterworks and systems, is also located on the premises. Styrum / East and Styrum / West treat a volume of around 26 million m³ of Ruhr water per year (Styrum / East alone around 20 million m³).

The treatment of the surface water of the Ruhr has been carried out since 1982 according to the so-called Mülheim method , which was developed in 1974 at the RWW Ruhrwasserwerk Dohne . The addition of chlorine is largely dispensed with.

The waterworks supply around 300,000 people in large parts of the large cities of Mülheim, Oberhausen and Bottrop with high-quality drinking water. If necessary, other parts of the RWW supply area can also be supplied via the network.

history

Oberhausener and Sterkrader industrial companies, the Cologne-Mindener railway company and Gutehoffnungshütte founded the Oberhausener Wasserwerk Aktiengesellschaft in neighboring Styrum in 1871 on the site of today's waterworks in order to supply their companies and factory settlements with water from the Ruhr.

August Thyssen , who has run the Thyssen & Cie. Iron strip factory in Styrum since 1871 . founded the Thyssen und Cie. waterworks in 1893 due to water shortages , right next to the existing waterworks and against great resistance from Oberhausen. The supply network has been steadily expanded since then, the Thyssen Zeche Graf Moltke in Gladbeck with the associated settlements and communities on the line were connected, and a little later Dorsten as well .

In 1912 both waterworks merged with the Dohne waterworks in the newly founded RWW.

Until the end of 2011, the waterworks was part of the Route of Industrial Culture (Theme Route 12 - History and Present of the Ruhr ). Since January 2016 it has been represented again in a themed route ( water: works, towers and turbines ).