Brunsbüttel water tower
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| Construction year: | 1911 |
| Tower height: | 38 m |
| Usable height: | 28 m |
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| Volume of the container: | 300 m³ |
| Original use: | Water supply to the city north of the canal |
| Operating condition: | shut down |
| Monument protection: | Cultural monument of particular importance |
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The water tower of Brunsbüttel is at the Easter Moorer Street, less than 200 meters northwest of the North Sea-Baltic Canal . It is surrounded by a green area. The 38 m high structure is now adjacent to the new buildings of the West Coast Clinic, which it only slightly towers above.
Building
The brick building, which is cylindrical in its basic form, is loosened up in the lower part by wall niches. They start flat above the ground floor and deepen continuously towards the top. This creates a slightly conical shape inside. The niches end below the container area, each with a triangular closure. Medallions made of decorative masonry are inserted between the triangles .
At the top, the container area connects with two rows of windows lying one above the other. On the northwest side there is a small bay window that allows you to get up past the container support. The pan-roofed conical roof is stepped like a mansard roof , steeper in the lower area than in the upper area.
Inside - behind the upper rows of windows - there is a Barkhausen container with a capacity of 300 m³. It is 7.10 m high and has a diameter of 4 m.
History of the Brunsbüttel water supply
After the decision to build the Kiel Canal in 1886, the place developed rapidly. In 1893, a central water supply was created with the Kudensee waterworks and a newly built water tower on Festgestraße.
The construction and expansion of the canal divided the city into two areas, which ultimately required two separate water supply networks. The old water tower was in the south of the canal, while the city in the north was enlarged as planned. There the sewer administration built houses for sewer employees and workers. In the course of the expansion, the new water tower described on Ostermoorer Strasse was also built for the northern part of the city in 1911.
The old water tower supplied the southern district until 1967. A drinking water pressure pipe running under the canal made it superfluous, so that it was blown up in 1969.
outlook
The new water tower is also no longer used, but it is under monument protection as a cultural monument of particular importance . A private person bought it in 2007, the further use of the building has not been clarified.
See also
literature
- Jens U. Schmidt: Water towers in Schleswig-Holstein. History and stories about the water supply in the north and its most striking buildings. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2008, ISBN 978-3-939656-71-5 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '59.9 " N , 9 ° 8' 48.1" E