Herten water towers

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Herten water towers
Water towers in early autumn 2013

The two Herten water towers with a capacity of 9,000 cubic meters are among the largest elevated tanks of their kind in Germany.

Building

The two water towers are 32 and 29 meters high and each have upright cylindrical shapes. You are in Herten on Westerholter Strasse near the Recklinghausen / Herten motorway junction . The first tower with a container of the Intze type and a capacity of 4,000 cubic meters was built in 1908, the second, with 5,000 cubic meters, 45 meters further west in 1935. The substructure of the first elevated tank consists of masonry and concrete and is divided into operating and living rooms. Since the automation of the company in 1982, the living spaces have been empty. The second elevated tank is based on 16 circularly arranged steel pillars with cross bracing. The towers have been protected as a monument since 1985 and can be visited for a few hours once a year on the Open Monument Day . Since 2016 they have been listed in the route of industrial culture in theme route 28: Water: Works, Towers and Turbines .

Technical operation

Both reservoirs are fed with drinking water from the Haltern reservoir via a 20-kilometer pipeline . From the 104  m above sea level. Towers located above sea level, the water flows into the network of Gelsenwasser AG , which also maintains them, without technical conveyor systems .

Web links

Commons : Wassertürme Gelsenwasser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dieter Decker: Industrial culture between Recklinghausen and Herten. Industrial monuments. WAZ, August 16, 2012, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ lokalkompass.de/herten, Open Monument Day
  3. ↑ Monument protection elevated tank Herten

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 28 ″  E