Water tower (Mannheim-Seckenheim)

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Spire
Water tower with an external elevator
Central pipeline in the water tower

The water tower in Mannheim-Seckenheim is a listed water tower in the Mannheim district of Seckenheim and a landmark of this district.

building

The tower was built by the Freiburg company Brenzinger & Cie. built. It is made of rammed concrete , its floor plan is octagonal and the load-bearing structure consists of eight pillars . The tower is cautiously designed in Art Nouveau forms , which is particularly evident in its spire , a cupola covered with copper sheet . It brought him the name "Glatzkopp" locally.

The tower is 37.7 m high and has a diameter of 12.2 m at ground level. It narrows slightly towards the top and has a diameter of about 10.5 m in the area of ​​the dome base. The water tank originally held 350 cubic meters. The original construction costs were 60,000  marks .

Today the tower is a cultural monument due to the Baden-Württemberg Monument Protection Act .

history

Construction and operation

Up to the beginning of the 20th century the water supply in the municipality of Seckenheim, which was independent until 1930, came from private and public deep wells . From 1905, the local locksmith company Lochbühler began building a central water supply, which a growing number of households joined. From 1909 the municipality of Seckenheim also built a public water supply, for which the water tower was built from 1909 to 1911.

In 1956, Seckenheim was connected to the Mannheim water supply ring, which meant that the tower lost its original function.

Reuse

Initially, the water tower was planned for demolition, but was purchased by the Lochbühler company in 1978 and renovated in 1989. In 1989, on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the then senior owner of the company, Carl Lochbühler, the two top floors were converted into event rooms. The dome-shaped ceiling of the top room received ceiling lighting in the form of a starry sky in the constellation of Carl Lochbühler's birthday, July 31. The constellations can light up and dimmed individually . In order to comfortably reach the event rooms, an oil hydraulic elevator with a panorama cabin was built on the outside . Until then, there had only been one construction elevator.

In 2002 the in- house elevator museum of the local elevator manufacturer Lochbühler moved into the ground floor of the Seckenheim water tower.

From 2010 to 2012, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the inside and outside of the tower was restored and rebuilt, a basement was excavated and two additional exhibition levels were created for the museum. The clock on the outside of the tower, originally located at a height of 20 meters and showing the water level, could be reconstructed on the basis of historical photographs. The tower was given its original paintwork. On June 22, 2012, the water tower with the newly erected museum was reopened. For historic preservation exemplary renovation the family Lochbühler 2014 received the Mannheimer price for historic preservation .

literature

sorted alphabetically by authors / editors / titles

  • Elevator museum in the water tower. Seckenheim's landmark and Lochbühler family business through the ages . Waldkirch, Mannheim 2015, ISBN 3-86476-065-8
  • Labeling on the outside of the water tower and in the elevator museum .
  • Lochbühler (ed.): Seckenheim water tower. Elevator Museum . Information sheet for the Open Monument Day 2018.
  • Lochbühler (ed.): Seckenheim water tower. Landmark. Cultural and architectural monument. Museum . Mannheim undated [brochure].

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Remarks

  1. ^ So: lettering . Lochbühler (ed.): Seckenheim water tower. Landmark . S. [5], on the other hand, mentions the year 1908.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lochbühler (ed.): Water tower Seckenheim. Landmark . S. [3].
  2. ↑ Elevator Museum in the Water Tower , p. 24.
  3. ↑ lettering .
  4. ↑ Elevator Museum in the Water Tower , p. 25.
  5. ↑ lettering .
  6. ↑ Lochbühler (ed.): Water tower Seckenheim. Landmark . S. [3].
  7. ↑ lettering .
  8. ↑ Elevator Museum in the Water Tower , p. 38.
  9. ↑ elevator Museum in the water tower , S. 42; 62-69.
  10. ↑ Elevator Museum in the Water Tower , p. 42.
  11. ↑ Homepage of Lochbühler.
  12. ↑ Elevator Museum in the water tower , p 46ff.
  13. ↑ Elevator Museum in the water tower , pp 51-53.
  14. ↑ Elevator Museum in the water tower , S. 47th
  15. ↑ Elevator Museum in the water tower , pp 77-81.
  16. ↑ Elevator Museum in the water tower , S. 82f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '46.5 "  N , 8 ° 33' 18.4"  E