Bad Liebenwerda water tower

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The water tower on the Sandberg, which was blown up in 1988, was a landmark of the southern Brandenburg spa town of Bad Liebenwerda . The highly visible landmark having a height of 26.6 meters and the reservoir had a usable water capacity of 150 cubic meters.

history

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Liebenwerda first considered building a central water supply for the city. The first suggestions, which were explained in this regard on November 5, 1903 in the city council meeting, met with strong resistance from the population, as they expected high additional tax burdens and the existing yard and street pumps were considered sufficient.

In 1907, amid numerous protests, the Bremen company Carl Francke began test drilling and planning the construction project, which was estimated at around 200,000 marks, with 27,000 marks going to the water tower. The resolution was finally passed on August 6 and the first groundbreaking ceremony on April 26, 1909 on the Nordring (then Gartenstrasse). First, pipes were laid and in May the waterworks commission determined the locations for the pump house and the water tower. In November of the same year, the city's first plots of land were supplied with water.

Since the system, which was calculated for around 5,000 people, was no longer sufficient for the supply with the increasing number of inhabitants , a reconstruction and expansion of the processing plants and wells, which was completed in 1957 , began in 1952 with a cost of 800,000 DM . In 1978, the water tower, which had meanwhile been showing considerable structural damage, was finally taken out of service.

After the tower had become a major source of danger due to falling components, efforts were made at the beginning of the 1980s to put the historic building into a new use and the city council had an appraisal of its state of construction drawn up. The building expert Dr. Ing. Pursche did not consider a demolition necessary in this context. In addition to numerous calculations, the document also contained suggestions for subsequent use of the facility, the implementation of which would have involved constructive changes and extensive renovation measures. Ultimately, however, the city decided not to take over the tower and agreed to demolish it after the water tower was classified as a ruin by the state building authorities on May 12, 1987 .

The water tower was finally blown up on April 4, 1988 at around 1 p.m. amid violent protests by the population.

literature

  • Hartmut Adler: The Liebenwerda water tower . In: Home calendar for the Bad Liebenwerda district and the Mückenberger Ländchen . tape 47 , 1994, ZDB -ID 985274-8 , p. 202-206 .
  • Walter Doering, M. Karl Fitzkow : The delicious, cool wet. From the old waterworks to the modern water supply of the district town . In: Home calendar for the Bad Kreis Liebenwerda and the Mückenberger Ländchen . tape 42 = NF Vol. 10, 1964, p. 97-101 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 18.7 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 39.6 ″  E