Transformer House (Hardt)

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Transformer house (transformer tower)
Transformer house (transformer tower)

The transformer station is in the district of Hardt in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Hardter highway.

The transformer tower was built in the 1920 / 1930s. It was entered under No. H 102 on January 10, 2005 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The transformer tower is located in Mönchengladbach-Hardt on Hardter Landstrasse opposite the Pastorenkamp confluence.

architecture

The switching house was built in the form of a compact transformer house under a tent roof on an almost square floor plan made of reddish-burned brick masonry. The access is on the ground floor on the north side. Arranged above this are further wall openings for lighting and ventilating the building . An only slightly protruding base zone is visually opposite to the clearly protruding eaves of the tent roof.

The sharp-edged, symmetrical design of the transformer house is emphasized by the execution of the circumferential gutter . In the area of ​​the tower head, three horizontal fields are highlighted. Originally, the overhead lines were connected here via insulators . Below the fields there are three vertically aligned, re-entrant rulings. Roll brick layers respectively accentuate the upper edge of the ground floor, the door / window lintels and sills and lintels the introduction fields below the roof .

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Individual evidence

  1. Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pb.moenchengladbach.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 4.5 "  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 39.7"  E