Blumenthal water tower
The Blumenthal water tower in Bremen - Blumenthal , Mühlenstraße 62, is one of the most important buildings in Bremen and is a listed building .
history
The red stone-faced, square, 50-meter-high water tower was built in 1927/28 according to plans by the architect Michael Fischer in the typical North German expressionist architecture (see also brick expressionism ) of the 1920s. The two-storey plinth, the six mezzanines, the upper part of the tower with the eight-meter-high container with a diameter of seven meters and the tent roof are formative . On the ground floor there are two single-storey building sections with hipped roofs on the tower . Three coats of arms in sandstone with motifs of Neptune , the cog from the coat of arms of Blumenthal and the owl as a symbol for science and technology adorn the gothic entrance doors. The massive tower is gracefully accompanied by the small, square entrance house made of clinker brick with its pointed roof. The tank installed at a height of 30 meters serves as a drinking water reservoir with its 300,000 liters of water. The bathing establishment in the water tower was located in the base .
The dominant building is a landmark of Blumenthal. In 1927 the building was highly controversial when residents at a meeting in the beach hall spoke out against the waterworks and the water tower and preferred the “clear and tasteful well water”. The elevated tank has not been used for drinking water supply since the beginning of the 1990s. The water tower daycare center has been located in the two ground floor side wings since 1966 . The bathing establishment in the water tower was closed in 1965 with the opening of the new combined bath Bremen-Nord. A conversion for apartments in the tower was not approved.
Monument protection
The building was placed under monument protection in 1993 as a Bremen cultural monument.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blumenthal Sightseeing: The Water Tower
- ↑ Ulf Buschmann: Objection from the monument conservator . In: Weser-Kurier of December 27, 2010.
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
literature
- Bremen and its buildings 1900–1951 , p. 476, Fig. XVII 8, Bremen 1952.
- Dehio Bremen / Lower Saxony 1992, p. 51.
- Ulf Fiedler and Bernhard Havighorst: The old Blumenthal in pictures , Bremen 1982.
- Oberbaurat Cohn: Building and living in the industrial community of Blumenthal (Unterweser) . Berlin 1928.
- Friedrich Karl Kürten (Mayor of Blumenthal from 1907 to 1933): The development of Blumenthal during my tenure .
Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 11.7 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 23" E