Recklinghausen substation

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Recklinghausen substation
The 'working side' of the substation
The two 110 kV transformers, now '' out of the house ''
View into an exhibition room

The Recklinghausen substation is a listed substation of the RWE (formerly VEW ) in Recklinghausen . Since December 2000, the plant has also been the seat of the RWE Technology Museum Electricity and Life , the largest electricity museum in Germany. The Recklinghausen substation is part of the route of industrial culture in the Ruhr area .

history

The transformer station of the United Electricity Works Westphalia was completed on February 17, 1928.

The installation of the substation in a permanent building was the reaction of the operator at the time to the difficult environmental conditions . The Emscher and the Rhine-Herne Canal are in close proximity to the building . Therefore, fog often had to be expected in the area , which would condense as moisture on the insulators . Together with soot and coal dust from hard coal mines in the immediate vicinity and further afield, short circuits could easily have occurred .

All units of the substation such as the disconnectors , load switches , instrument transformers and transformers were therefore housed in a common building. High-voltage electricity from 110 kV ( kilovolt ) was transformed to a medium voltage of 10 kV for distribution in the city.

Museum of Electricity and Life

In the course of modernizing the switchgear, there were free spaces in the building which, in connection with a new extension, provide space for the electricity museum and the company archive.

In the museum you can see the history of electricity from its beginnings (discovery of galvanic electricity by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta ) to today's daily use in household and industry. The museum's collection includes, among other things, a large number of exhibits and promotional materials for the use of electricity from the beginning of the 20th century. As a further special feature, the museum contains facade parts from the Hattingen joint venture . The coal-fired power station in Hattingen , which was shut down in 1984, had portraits of the VEW supervisory board members from the construction period on the facade .

The museum also houses the corporate archive of RWE Westfalen-Weser-Ems AG.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elekrizitäts Museum opens in Recklinghausen. 100 years of cultural, social and technical history of electricity in the substation. Press release. RWE Net AG, December 8, 2000, archived from the original on March 21, 2003 ; accessed on February 5, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Umspannwerk Recklinghausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 28 ″  E