Transformer house on Merreter Weg

Transformer house (transformer tower)

The transformer Am Merreter way is as a transformer station serving monument in the Honschaft Merreter the district Rheindahlen country in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ). The tower was built around 1930. Since July 19, 2004 it has been registered under No. A 051 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach.

location

The transformer house is located on Am Merreter Weg, which leads from Merreter to Knoor , on a meadow diagonally across from the Kamphof, Merreter 51, a listed building.

architecture

The switch house was built in the form of a slim transformer tower on an approximately square floor plan made of dark-fired brick masonry. The access is on the ground floor on the side facing the street. Further wall openings are on the north side of the structure. In terms of design, the sturdy concrete slab of the flat roof corresponds to an only slightly protruding base zone . The sharp-edged, symmetrical design of the shaft was originally additionally emphasized by the execution of the circumferential gutter in a box shape.

In the area of ​​the tower head, four only slightly protruding brick strips run around the building. The overhead lines fed in from three directions are connected here via insulators . With the restrained use of formal design elements, they give the entry zone of the overhead lines a sparingly indicated, but safe, architecturally accentuated setting. A brick roll layer is arranged directly below the concrete slab at the upper edge and at the lower edge of the discharge zone without protruding from the wall. Further rolling layers accentuate the upper edge of the plinth and the door / window lintels.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

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. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 0.4 ″  E