Rhine overhead line crossing Reisholz
The Reisholz overhead line crossing was an overhead line crossing over the Rhine between Düsseldorf - Holthausen and the Zonser Grind in Dormagen . It crossed the Rhine with a span of 375 meters south of the Holthausen substation . The new masts erected in 1953 at the intersection were dismantled by Westnetz at the end of 2016 .
history
The Rhine crossing at Düsseldorf-Reisholz was one of the oldest high-voltage connections in Germany. As early as 1917, RWE built a 110-kV line from the Goldenbergwerk (at that time the foothills headquarters ) in Hürth, south of Cologne, to the Reisholz power plant in Düsseldorf . This was part of a network that was created in the Rhineland after the First World War , which connected the power plants in the Rhineland, the Ruhr area and the Bergisches Land with each other and with the facilities in the Rhenish lignite district . As a result, RWE developed from a regional electricity producer to a supra-regional energy supplier.
In 1953 the masts at the Rhine crossing were rebuilt and designed for four circuits in a double Danube mast arrangement. These 88 meter high masts carried two 110 kV circuits on the top two trusses and two 30 kV circuits on the bottom two. The pipes on the lower traverses were used to connect the waterworks on the Grind in Dormagen . Although the Reisholz power plant was shut down in 1966 and demolished in 1974, the substation has been preserved to this day.
All lines running over the overhead line crossing were still in operation until around 2004. Between the St. Peter substation and the Reisholz substation there was a section of the line originally leading from the golden mine on the masts erected in 1917. Due to the old age of the masts and the now denser meshing of the network, the line was dismantled without replacement. Since then, the line, which consists of only four masts including crossing masts, has only been used to route two 30 kV lines across the Rhine to the waterworks.
The power supply of the waterworks was changed in 2013, so that the two 30 kV lines were shut down. Since there was no further use for this, the Rhine crossing was dismantled from October to the end of 2016.
Others
The pylon on the right bank of the Rhine had a special feature in that it stood above the siding of the Holthausen substation. It was thus very likely the only high-voltage pylon in Germany with a railway line running under its legs.
A few hundred meters downstream is a more recent 220-kV overhead line crossing that connects the Holthausen substation with the one in St. Peter.
Coordinates of the masts
- Northwestern mast on the right bank of the Rhine
- South-east (left bank of the Rhine) mast (picture from 1953)
Individual evidence
- ^ Westnetz dismantles the line between the Reisholz substation and Stürzelberg , Westnetz, October 13, 2016
- ↑ 100 meter high power poles are dismantled in the grind , RP Online , October 19, 2016
- ↑ rwe.com: Chronicle 1898–1920
- ^ VDE Chronicle of Electrical Engineering: Year 1917. Retrieved on June 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Skyscraperpage: A historical important powerline crossing with a UNIQUE feature. Retrieved June 20, 2015 .
