Radial system III
When Radialsystem III Hallesches Ufer 78, it is originally the first sewage pumping station of Berlin and the oldest symbol of the Berlin sewer system. It served as a Berlin lapidarium from 1978 to 2009 .
Due to the rapidly growing population and the industrialization of Berlin, it became necessary from the second half of the 19th century to canalize the sewage. In the meantime, the sanitary conditions in the city steadily deteriorated. In 1869 a committee was set up under the direction of the doctor Rudolf Virchow to examine the previous drafts and to draw conclusions. James Hobrecht was then commissioned to set up a test site in Kreuzberg to investigate the natural purification of wastewater by discharging it into agricultural areas. The positive results of these sprinkling tests lead to the establishment of the sewage fields.
Hobrecht planned a total of twelve such systems , known as radial systems, for Berlin, which pumped the wastewater from the urban area at that time to the Berlin sewage fields located outside the city center .
The first thing that came into being was Radialsystem III with its pumping station on Halleschen Ufer . The city council approved six million marks for the building in March 1873 and between 1873 and 1876 it was built according to the designs of the building councilor James Hobrecht. It collected the sewage from what was then Friedrichstadt , Dorotheenstadt , Alt-Cölln and the Tiergartenviertel ; with over 100,000 inhabitants, this area was the most densely populated in Berlin. In 1878, Radialsystem III was completed with a canal system over 80 kilometers in length. Completion on January 1, 1878 is the official date for the commissioning of the Berlin sewer system.
The radial systems designed by Hobrecht were integrated into the Berlin sewer system for many years. It was not until the 1970s that the Radialsystem III pumping station was taken off the grid. In 1979/1980 the building was rededicated as a lapidarium .
In 2009 the PR consultant Christian Boros bought the building and had it converted into an office by Jens Casper, who was awarded the Berlin Architecture Prize in bronze in 2013 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Lapidary in the Kreuzberger Chronik (November 2003 - Issue 52)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "100 Years of Berlin Water Supply And Wastewater Disposal 1840-1940" by Shahrooz Mohajeri, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005 ISBN 978-3-515-08541-0 . ( google books )
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 6 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 40 ″ E