River pillar in the Rhine near Mumpf

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Dumpy diving platform in the Rhine (photo 2015 at low water level)

The river pillar in the Rhine near Mumpf (locally also Mumpfer diving tower in the Rhine or Türmli ) is a monument from the pioneering days of general electrification. It stands in front of the eastern entrance to the village of Mumpf in the Rhine . It originally served as the foundation for a lattice mast with a high-voltage line to Säckingen, built in 1901.

history

In 1898, Europe's largest hydropower plant went into operation in Rheinfelden . In the same year the village of Mumpf was electrified. The city of Säckingen also applied for electricity from Rheinfelden. The power transmission works Rheinfelden decided to build the power line from Mumpf over the Rhine to Säckingen. Since the span between two masts at that time was not allowed to be more than 200 meters, the power plants decided to build a foundation for a lattice mast in the Rhine valley, about twenty meters from the bank. It was concreted on April 4, 1901 in the Ob Dorf area in Mumpf. The foundation for the second mast was laid in the autumn of the same year. It is located under today's Fischerhütte von Säckingen, seen from the Rhine in the left rear corner.

When planning, the slack in the wires was an important question: there was a risk of wire breakage and the safety of fishermen, raftsmen and boatmen was at stake.

On November 19, 1901, the power line over the Rhine was operational for the city of Säckingen and its industry. In the publication Der Zoologischer Garten, Volume 44, it was reported in 1903 that the high-voltage line had killed a young stork in 1902.

With the construction of the Laufenburg power plant in 1914, Säckingen acquired electricity from a new supplier. The power pole was therefore dismantled, but the foundation was retained. When the Mumpf lido was built in the early 1930s , the foundation was incorporated into it as a diving platform .

gallery

  • The pillar as a diving platform in the Mumpf lido, complete photo 1933

  • Dumpy diving tower in the Rhine - excerpt from the letter from the Rheinfelden power transmission works on October 11, 1901 to Mayor Wanner von Säckingen.

  • Dumpy diving platform in the Rhine - excerpt from the letter from the Rheinfelden power transmission works of October 11, 1901 to Mayor Wanner.

  • Dumpy diving platform in the Rhine - excerpt from the letter from the Rheinfelden power transmission works of April 4, 1901 to Mayor Wanner Säckingen

  • Dumpy diving platform in the Rhine - report from "The Zoological Garden" Volume 44, 1903.

  • 1901 line route from the foundation in the Rhine to the pillar at what is now the Bad Säckingen fisherman's hut.

literature

  • The zoological garden, magazine for the entire zoo , zoological society 1903, volume 44, page 384.

proof

  1. ↑ a b Documents on power lines from 1901 in the Bad Säckingen city archive.
  2. ↑ The Zoological Garden, magazine for the entire zoo , Zoological Society 1903, volume 44, page 384.

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '47.5 "  N , 7 ° 55' 42.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred and seventy  /  266317