Böhl water tower
| Böhl water tower | |
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 Water tower in Böhl |
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| Data | |
| place | Böhl-Iggelheim |
| architect | probably Georg Jakob Lehr |
| Client | Municipality of Böhl |
| Architectural style | high, undivided substructure on an octagonal floor plan, round elevated tank, work floor with conical roof |
| Construction year | 1934 |
| height | 34.83 m |
The water tower in Böhl , a suburb of the municipality of Böhl-Iggelheim in Rhineland-Palatinate , was built in 1934 as the centerpiece of the town's water supply. It takes the water from two wells in the locality and has a capacity of 180 cubic meters. The water is distributed from the tower to the local pipeline network, and the pumps in the water houses are monitored from the tower. The tower with the address Am Wasserturm 13a is a listed building .
history
Up until the early 20th century, the water supply in Böhl was mainly provided by pump wells from the groundwater . The water quality was not sufficient everywhere. So was z. During the construction of the 13-meter-deep school fountain on the school square in 1913, for example, the Speyer Research Institute for Food and Beverage found that the water did not meet the requirements for healthy drinking water because the fountain was located on heavily polluted terrain. In March 1928 there were 520 pump wells and 6 electrically operated wells in Böhl.
In the summer of 1928, the responsible state authority for water supply in Munich drafted a plan for a group water supply for the communities of Haßloch , Böhl, Iggelheim , Geinsheim and Duttweiler . The required water should be taken from three wells in the Duttweiler district. The planning found a mixed response in the communities concerned, so that implementation was not decided.
In autumn 1928, a Mr. Bernauer from Königsbach and the Königsbach community offered the Böhl community a total of three sources to operate a water supply. After pumping tests, these springs initially produced too little water at 2 liters per second. The Bernauer source was then drilled deeper, but still did not produce enough discharge. Various other boreholes and investigations followed, as well as preliminary negotiations on the purchase of the spring property, but in January 1930 the plans for water from Königsbach were discarded.
In the period that followed, the company concentrated on the search for suitable sources on its own markings and promptly found what it was looking for in a test drilling on a community-owned site on Hochdorfer Straße, where a spring with an estimated output of 8 to 10 liters per second was found. By September 1930 the well was expanded and produced 13 liters per second. The municipality wanted to use the then numerous unemployed people in the municipality to build a water pipe network, but failed due to political resistance. The municipality of Haßloch meanwhile offered to connect Böhl to its water supply. But since they were convinced of the cost-effectiveness of their own water supply, Böhl declined with thanks. For the time being, however, they could not afford to expand their own water supply.
It was not until August 1933 that Böhl received a grant of 145,000 RM from the government's job creation program, so that the municipality was able to decide to complete the water supply in September 1933. Work began on April 1, 1934. Most of the costs were attributable to the supply line, the local pipe network and the connection lines, the installation of which was awarded to Reimer in Schauernheim for around 100,000 RM . The construction of a water tower cost around 30,000 RM and was awarded to the Hoffmann and Sons company in Mannheim. The pumping station with processing system would be built by Emil and Eugen Gräber from Böhl for around 5,000 RM. Other smaller items for a total of RM 10,000 were awarded to Sulzer from Ludwigshafen (pumps), BBC in Mannheim (motors with supply line and installation) and Bopp and Reuther in Mannheim (water meters).
During the construction of the water tower, a fatal accident occurred on May 16, 1934, when the 47-year-old construction worker Johann Heinz was killed by a falling beam.
The water supply network was put into operation on July 14, 1934.
The water was pumped through the pumping station from the 40 meter deep well on Hochdorfer Straße with a capacity of 20 cubic meters per hour and then pumped through a 125 mm thick supply line into the 34.83 meter high water tower, which has a capacity of 180 cubic meters . The lowest water level in the tower is 25.33 meters, the highest 30.33 meters. The water is then diverted from the water tower into the local pipeline network.
During the Second World War , the water tower was damaged during the battle for Böhl in March 1945. The water supply failed for a few weeks because of the damaged power supply. Bullet marks on the facade of the water tower were still visible for several decades.
After the Second World War, the Böhler water supply had to be expanded several times because the water capacity of the well on Hochdorfer Straße was no longer sufficient. In 1960 a second well with a depth of 45 meters was built on Hochdorfer Straße, which replaced the old well the following year. In 1963 the community built an additional well on Ludwigstrasse with a depth of 75 meters, which was later driven down to 101 meters. This well has a discharge of 50 cubic meters of water per hour.
The water tower was renovated in 1994/95, whereby the remaining war damage was removed and the facade was redesigned.
The water tower is the central element of Böhl's water supply to this day. A radio control device in the water tower monitors the total of six pumps in the water houses on Hochdorfer and Ludwigsburger Strasse and reports any malfunctions immediately to the municipal office or the water manager.
literature
- Erhard Hauck: The water supply in Böhl. In: Gemeindeverwaltung Böhl-Iggelheim (ed.): Böhl 780–2005. Böhl-Iggelheim 2005, pp. 370-379.
- Herbert Dellwing, Rolf Mertzenich (arr.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 7: Ludwigshafen district. Werner, Worms 1989, ISBN 3-491-31038-5 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '15.2 " N , 8 ° 17' 33.4" E