Elsterwerda water tower
The water tower on Weststrasse in the southern Brandenburg town of Elsterwerda was built between 1905 and 1906 and is now a technical cultural monument under monument protection .
The construction of the city water pipe was decided on July 5, 1901 at a public meeting to which Mayor Albert Wilde had invited. While the water was taken from a spring on Kahlaer Weg by a lift at a depth of eight meters, a water tower was required to maintain an even water pressure in the pipes. This was built between 1905 and 1906 on today's Weststrasse and filled with water for the first time on February 27, 1906. The official commissioning took place on April 1, 1906. It has a height of 32 meters and carries an iron, 250 m³ large water tank, which is surrounded by a cylindrical reinforced concrete cladding. In 1912, three water cranes from the nearby train station were connected to feed the steam locomotives with water . In 1942, the urban system was no longer sufficient to supply the rapidly growing city and the pipeline network of the Biehla district, which was forcibly incorporated in 1940, was connected. The water tower in Weststrasse was finally decommissioned in 1948 for the municipal water supply and was to be demolished in the 1980s after the Deutsche Reichsbahn no longer had any use for the structure. Since the preservation authorities and the then city council campaigned for the preservation of the technical monument, a renovation was approved and the tower roof was comprehensively renewed in 1989.
More water towers in the urban area of Elsterwerda
There are two more water towers in the city of Elsterwerda. The Biehla water tower is also an architectural monument. It has a capacity of 90 m³ and is 140 m above sea level. NN visible from afar on the Winterberg of the Elsterwerda district of Biehla . The building, erected from 1913 to 1914, whose facade was modeled on the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal, was to serve as a memorial and landmark of the place in addition to its technical purpose.
The water tower at Biehla station has a capacity of 50 m³. It belongs to a building ensemble created by the Elsterwerda master builder Friedrich Jage with a station building and goods handling made of Silesian clinker masonry, which is currently also a listed building.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
- ↑ Flyer: The water tower of Elsterwerda-Weststrasse.
- ↑ a b c Manfred Reuschel: The water supply of Biehla and Elsterwerda in past centuries. In: Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg. Vol. 53, 2000, ZDB -ID 920368-0 , pp. 248-258.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 13 ° 31 ′ 5 ″ E