Bommerholz water tower

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Bommerholz water tower
Bommerholz water tower

The Bommerholz water tower is a water tower in Witten-Bommerholz , which originally also served as a lookout tower .

history

After the local wells had dried up due to the mining of the neighboring Bommerbank colliery and a long-term water supply contract with the “Mont Cenis” union had been terminated on January 1, 1910, a new water supply contract was signed with the waterworks for the northern Westphalian coal district AG in Gelsenkirchen , the predecessor of today's Gelsenwasser AG . In connection with this change, the construction of a pumping station and a water tower became necessary.

The water tower was built in 1910 according to plans by Simons in Essen-Steele , which specializes in waterworks systems , and the construction company Carl Brandt in Düsseldorf was commissioned with the construction . The tower is 26.4 meters high, its original capacity was 150 m³. Its construction costs are given in a local history publication from 1997 with only 300 marks (in today's purchasing power about 1,749 euros), which is probably due to an error. Before that, there was a windmill at this point .

During the renovation in 1977/1978 by Stadtwerke Witten , the capacity was increased; today it is 150 m³ twice. For this measure, the viewing platform around the water tank had to be abandoned. On October 21, 1986 the tower was listed as a historical monument . At the initiative of the Bommeraner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein and its chairman Wolfgang Kreischer , the tower was illuminated for the first time on December 16, 1997 with three 400 watt lights.

The tower is part of the Route of Industrial Culture (Theme Route 12: History and Present of the Ruhr and Theme Route 28: Water: Works, Towers and Turbines ), but its interior cannot be visited.

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm Bommerholz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The landmark of Bommern: The water tower
  2. ↑ The double water tower in Witten, completed in 1901, cost over 225,000 marks (around 1,543,445 euros in today's purchasing power), the municipal bathing establishment in Witten built in 1910/1911 around 335,000 marks (around 1,892,493 euros in today's purchasing power). (According to Friedrich Blome) The term gold mark used in the more recent source is only a later term for the gold-covered currency mark .

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '13 "  N , 7 ° 19' 17.4"  E