Eckernförde water tower
| Water tower Eckernförde-Borby |
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| Construction year: | 1926 |
| Tower height: | 17 m |
| Usable height: | 10.6 m |
| Container type: | Cylindrical container |
| Volume of the container: | 120 m³ |
| Use: | City water supply |
| Operating condition: | in operation |
The Eckernförde water tower in the Borby district of Eckernförde can be seen from Bystedtredder. It is located on a hill between Bystedtredder and Bürgermeister-Heldmann-Straße and is surrounded by garden plots.
Building
The 17 meter high water tower was built in 1926 by the Kiel-based concrete and reinforced concrete construction company Förster. It is a simple, cylindrical structure with a pan-roofed conical roof . The roof is closed by a compass rose with a weather vane in the shape of a fish. Below the roof there is a wreath of simple windows to illuminate the container area. The container holds 120 cubic meters of water. On the ground floor, hidden by the vegetation, the tower has another wreath of windows.
History of the Eckernfördes water supply
As in many other communities, around 1900 it became evident that the conventional decentralized water supply no longer met the hygienic requirements. As a result of population growth and industrialization, the water quality of many private wells deteriorated. In Eckernförde, only smaller waterworks were initially built in new settlement areas.
One of the smaller projects was built in 1919 with a water tank on Bystedtredder on Schleswiger Strasse. In order to be able to supply higher residential complexes better, the container was replaced by the tower described in 1926.
It was not until the late 1920s to the early 1930s that a supply network was built for the entire city by merging and modernizing smaller units. In the course of the measures, further deep wells and an elevated water tank were built on the Brennofenweg, which is still in operation today.
The drinking water supply Eckernförde done by the Stadtwerke Eckernförde GmbH. The city of Eckernförde is 100 percent owner of the company.
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 .
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 48 ″ N , 9 ° 49 ′ 49 ″ E