Welda hydropower plant

Welda hydropower plant
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Coordinates	51 ° 27 '9 " N , 9 ° 6' 48" E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '9 " N , 9 ° 6' 48" E
country	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia;
place	Warburg
Waters	Twist
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	power plant
operator	Ulrich Schuett
Start of operation	1910
	technology
Bottleneck performance	0.025 megawatts
Standard work capacity	0.3 million kWh / year
Turbines	1 Kaplan turbine
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The Welda hydropower plant is a run-of-river power plant with a Kaplan turbine on the Twiste , a tributary of the Diemel .

The power plant, which opened in 1910, is located in the eastern outskirts of Welda , a district of Warburg , in the Höxter district . The power plant was built by the electrical engineer Hugo Schuchard, jun. (* February 28, 1879 in Barmen , † October 3, 1969 in Warburg). With the exception of the winter months in which he was in Barmen, he grew up on the Calenberg Castle , which is adjacent to Welda and belongs to his father, and lived on the Neu Calenberg estate in Calenberg after the First World War .

For the construction of the power plant, the engineer had acquired a former mill, the Twistemühle, for the purpose of conversion. He had two turbines and two generators installed. The villages of Welda, Calenberg and Wettesingen were initially supplied with electrical energy . A nail factory was later built on the site and from the 1920s the electricity generated was also used for a threshing box (wage threshing).

After Hugo Schuchard's death, the hydropower plant was sold in 1973 and changed hands again in 2009. The power plant is now operated by a private company, and the electricity is fed into the regional supply network. The electrical output of the power plant is around 55 kW . The current operator has been Mr. Ulrich Schütt since 2018.

Power plant on the Hörler Bach

In the village of Welda itself, a second, smaller hydroelectric power plant with an output of around three kilowatts has been operated for a few years to generate electricity by the municipality on Hörler Bach at the old mill.

Individual evidence

↑ Alexander Schuchard et al. a .: Johannes Schuchard, Barmen. His ancestors and descendants. Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1904, p. 25

literature

Bruno Hake (1994): Welda. A village between the nobility and the church. Warburg: Hermes, ISBN 3-922032-29-X .

[1] Alexander Schuchard et al. a .: Johannes Schuchard, Barmen. His ancestors and descendants. Philipp Kühner, Eisenach 1904, p. 25