Water tower (Rheinbach)

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Aerial view of the ensemble
Tower and former machine house from the south

The former water tower in Rheinbach is located in today's Stadtpark in the south of the city and is used as an artist's studio. The converted building has been a listed building since December 18, 1984 .

The tower was part of the first Rheinbach water and electricity works, which went into operation in 1897. The central plant replaced the previously used mobile water barrels, with which the residents were supplied decentrally from six public wells (by means of manually operated water pumps ).

The water tower was equipped with what was then a modern intze tank, which made it possible to climb the upper tank space by installing an inner cylinder. The roof was sloping and had a lantern , the sheathing was made as rabitz plaster . The waterworks with its tower was in operation until 1949 .

From May 1955 the district of Bonn used the tower as a hose maintenance facility for the fire brigade. This use ended in 1969. In the period that followed, the water tank in the top of the tower was dismantled and slimmed down so that the shape of the tower now looks more like a lighthouse. The tower and the associated former machine house were used by the glass artist Udo Edelmann from the early 1980s until 2019 . The studio glass artist runs the Edelmann studio glassworks and a gallery here, and lives in the ensemble of buildings with his wife Chris.

Many glass artists have worked in the former water tower since 1982 and exhibited here (such as Volkhard and Renate Precht, Günter and Henry Knye or Stanislaw Borowski).

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm (Rheinbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address: Stadtpark 28
  2. ↑ List of historic monuments No. 16 according to Monument Protection Act (North Rhine-Westphalia)
  3. ↑ a b Katrin Bauer, The construction of the first waterworks in Rheinbach (1896/97) , in: Kultur und Gewerbe Stadt Rheinbach , July 1999, reproduced by: Detro, Tesch und Urfell, Wasserturm (WT) , in: Rund um Rheinbach , Brochure, December 2014
  4. ^ Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Rheinland-Verlag, 2000, p. 32 f.
  5. ↑ "God for Honor, the Neighbor to the Wehr" Documentation of the historical development of the fire engine 1 of the volunteer fire brigade of the city of Rheinbach , 1954–1979, excerpt from the supplemented commemorative publication for the 125th anniversary of the volunteer fire brigade of the city of Rheinbach (with photo of the tower from the 1960s)
  6. ↑ Udo Edelmann (†) always endeavored to exchange ideas, even across borders. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
  7. ^ A b Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Rheinland-Verlag, 2003
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Kaes , Glasstadt Rheinbach: "Glass does not forgive mistakes" , July 11, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  9. ^ Regine Prause, Udo Edelmann - sculptor, glass designer, designer , April 26, 2016, website of the Rheinbach Glass Museum
  10. ^ Rheinbach Glass Museum: Rheinbach honors its glass artist Udo Edelmann , June 4, 2016, Der Glasfreund - magazine for old and new glass
  11. ↑ Carmen Sommer, The history of the Haidaer-Steinschönau glass processing industry and its structural change after the relocation in the Rheinbach area: from publishing to glass craft business , Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1997
  12. ^ Regine Prause, “Father of the Studio Glass Movement” represented in the Rheinbach Glass Museum , April 8, 2015, website of the Rheinbach Glass Museum
  13. ^ Regine Prause, Three valuable donations from the Friends' Association strengthen the studio glass department of the Glass Museum , September 17, 2012, website of the Rheinbach Glass Museum

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 5.5 ″  E