Vinner water tower

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Water tower in Vinn
Water tower with surrounding building

The Vinner water tower in the Vinn district of Moers is a registered monument of the city. It was probably completed in 1901 by the construction company "Peter Boschmann" together with the Vinner waterworks . Until then, the population had supplied themselves through pump communities and individual wells.

The Intze- type container measures 200 cubic meters and is almost 40 meters high; in its time it was able to maintain a pressure of 4  bar . In addition to the purpose of supplying water, it was also a popular excursion destination and could be climbed for ten Reichspfennig .

With the increasing demand for water in the 20th century, its capacity was no longer sufficient; from 1960 onwards, it was supplemented by underground tanks with a capacity of several thousand cubic meters on Vinner Strasse and Wittfeldstrasse, and some of its function was removed. In 1977 it was decommissioned.

In 1989 he was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Moers .

From 2012 to 2013 it was renovated by the current owner ( ENNI Group ) and converted into an event and conference venue. At the foot of the tower, an educational trail shows how the water cycle and the drinking water supply work.

The water tower has been part of the Route of Industrial Culture , Theme Route 28: Water: Works, Towers and Turbines since 2016 .

Nowadays the fountains around the water tower are still used. They pump up to 600,000 cubic meters of water, which are fed from there into the 1,000-kilometer-long pipeline network and supply around 140,000 residents in Moers and Neukirchen-Vluyn with drinking water.

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