Bremerhaven-Lehe water tower (Langener Landstrasse)

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Bremerhaven-Lehe water tower (Langener Landstrasse)
Water tower
Data
Construction year: 1885/86
Tower height: 38 m
Volume of the container: 500 m³
Shutdown: 1996
Original use: Drinking water supply

The water tower of Bremerhaven-Lehe on Langener Landstrasse - also called "Dickschädel" by the locals - is the third oldest of four water towers in what is now Bremerhaven .

Building

The foundation stone was laid on June 20, 1885. In the following year, the water tower was put into operation.

The feature of the round brick building is a strongly protruding tower head with a flat conical roof. The tower head contains an iron high-rise Intze container with a convex spherical bottom . Its capacity is 500 cubic meters of water.

history

The tower was built as part of the expansion of the drinking water supply with pipelines in the then independent Lehe and neighboring Bremerhaven. The two floors in the column section of the tower served as temporary accommodation after the Second World War . In 1992 the water tower was renovated and a new roof was installed. In 1996, the Bremen municipal utilities stopped operating the water tower. The maintenance of the tower cost 20,000 euros annually. The attempt to convert the water tower into a discotheque failed due to safety requirements imposed by the building authorities. From 2003 the building was offered for sale. In 2005 the tower went into private ownership. In 1997 efforts to put the tower under monument protection were unsuccessful.

The water tower has been a protected cultural monument since 2013.

literature

  • Jens U. Schmidt: Water towers in Bremen and Hamburg. Hanseatic water towers . Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2011, ISBN 978-3-86929-190-1 .

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm Langener Landstraße (Bremerhaven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ImmoTips 2/2006: An imposing building in transition - 120 years of Leh water tower on Langener Landstrasse in Bremerhaven (PDF; 240 kB).
  2. ↑ a b Nordsee-Zeitung: Dickschädel as a slacker , February 22, 2005 ( Memento from October 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung: Not pumped out yet , March 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung: Love for the long Lulatsch (PDF; 407 kB), August 31, 2005
  5. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 28.7 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 47.8"  E