Tharandt hydropower plant
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '35 " N , 13 ° 34' 51" E | |
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Germany Saxony
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| place | Tharandt | |
| Waters | Wild Weisseritz | |
| power plant | ||
| owner | ENSO Energie Sachsen Ost AG | |
| operator | ENSO Energie Sachsen Ost | |
| construction time | 1924-1926 | |
| Start of operation | 1926 | |
| Listed since | 2000 | |
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| Turbines | 2 Francis spiral turbines | |
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The Tharandt hydropower plant is a run-of-river power plant in the small Saxon town of Tharandt and part of the z. Some of the raw water route from the Klingenberg dam - Coschütz waterworks (Dresden) is routed in a gravity tunnel . It was built from 1924 to 1926, has been in operation since 1926 and is since 2000 lt. State Conservation Office Saxony under monument protection . The operator is ENSO Energie Sachsen Ost AG , which has also included it in their energy adventure trail.
It is technically equipped as follows:
- 2 Francis spiral turbines , manufactured in 1926 ( Voith Heidenheim)
- fully automatic operation since 1993
Incidentally, the first public hydropower plant in Saxony supplied electricity from the Tharandt castle mill (now Schubert & Fiedler) to the surrounding houses and public street lighting as early as 1893. It was built by mill owner Ernst Schmieder based on the model of the (non-public) electrical system from Olbernhau that was first operated in Saxony in 1892 .
literature
- Wolfgang Heinitz: Tharandt. On ways through past and present , Tharandter Marginalien 2, Ed. Burgen- und Geschichtsverein Tharandt eV, 1st edition 1996