Rühler Moor peat power station
The peat power plant Rühler Moor was located on the Ems south of Rühle in Lower Saxony . From 1926 to 1974, electricity was generated from the burning of peat obtained in the surrounding area . It was one of the two earlier peat power plants in Germany.
From 1900 onwards, privately run companies began mining peat on the German side of the Bourtanger Moor . As black peat could hardly be sold as a fuel due to the increasing importance of hard coal , a sufficient profit could only be achieved by marketing white peat . From a soil-technical point of view, the legislation only provided for potting permits for white peat if the utilization of black peat was also ensured. This was the only way to ensure subsequent agricultural use of the land.
This is the context in which the Rühler Moor peat power plant was built between 1924 and 1926, which tied up capital in the region in difficult times and secured many jobs in the long term. The operator was the Heseper peat works. The power plant burned the black peat extracted in the region, up to 20 m thick, and initially produced around 6600 kW of electricity using the two steam turbines ; it was delivered over an overhead line to the Lower Saxony power plants in Nordhorn . The system consisted of the machine house with the turbine hall, the substation, the workshop, the pump house on the Ems and a peat storage area with a crane system. The buildings were rebuilt or expanded in the years 1952/1954, the technical systems were improved. The delivery of the black peat as fuel took place with the field railway of the Klasmann works , from whose route between the peat works near Groß Hesepe and the Emshafen Meppen a branch to the power station was built in 1924. After the cessation of white peat loading in Meppen in 1970, the branch only served to supply the power plant until it was shut down.
In March 1974 the power plant was taken out of service due to its poor efficiency. A little later the group of buildings was demolished. Today the street "Am Kraftwerk" in Rühle reminds of the former location. The history of the power plant is documented in the Emsland Moor Museum .
Web links
- Article in Klasman-Deilmann Staff Magazine
Coordinates: 52 ° 39 ′ 22.3 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 39.5" E