Climbing column

Columns were part of medieval and early modern water supply systems .

A vertical column was a tapping point for water in a building connected to a water art network. It was mostly a hollowed out tree trunk. The upright column was closed at the top and connected to the water supply line from below. It had an opening at hand height that was provided with a tap .

The water coming from the high-lying reservoir of the water art into the pipe network was pressed by the water pressure according to the principle of communicating pipes from below into the riser columns, so that it was possible to draw water through the tap at any time. The prerequisite for the use of a vertical column was that the connected building was deep enough so that the water pressure, depending on the height of the storage tank, was sufficient.

In Lübeck , some of the original riser columns, which belonged to the pipeline networks for brewing water art and civil water art , have been preserved in situ .

literature

• Grabowski / Mührenberg: In Lübeck, water has been flowing in pipes ... for 700 years! Published for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, 1994