Big sand water tower
| Water tower Groß Sand Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg |
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| Construction year: | 1911 |
| Tower height: | 45.3 m |
| Usable height: | 34.8 m |
| Container type: |
 Loft
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| Volume of the container: | 800 m³ |
| Operating condition: | out of order since 1957 |
| Original use: | Water supply to the district |
| Monument protection: | Cultural monument since 2008 |
The Groß Sand water tower is located in the Hamburg district of Wilhelmsburg at the hospital of the same name belonging to the Catholic Bonifatius community . It was built between 1910 and 1911 based on designs by the Altona architect Wilhelm Brünicke. The tower received rooms for the management of the waterworks of the municipality of Wilhelmsburg (now part of Hamburg), which at that time belonged to the Prussian province of Hanover , service apartments and the local museum of the municipality. With a total height of 46 meters, it ensured sufficient water pressure.
Building
The octagonal building, influenced by homeland security architecture, is divided in the lower area by eight vertical rows of windows. Upstairs is a gallery supported by consoles . The area of the water container is separated from the shaft of the tower by a different wall structure, larger windows and decorative masonry. A copper- covered conical roof with a ventilation attachment and four dormers closes the building off at the top. The entire building is faced with Boizenburger clinker bricks so that the load-bearing reinforced concrete structure is not visible inside:
eight reinforced concrete pillars arranged in a circle support the building. The 800 m³ loft container rests on a cantilever that rests on the pillars.
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The pillars are connected by six false ceilings. The foundation of each pillar rests on 19 wooden piles 12 m long. The pile foundation was necessary because of the difficult subsoil.
Head of the tower with decorative masonry
Covered entrance area
Decorative element in the clinker brickwork
History of the Wilhelmsburg water supply
The village of Wilhelmsburg quickly developed into an industrial location through the designation of the Hamburg free port and the construction of the Elbe bridges at the end of the 19th century. The population grew from 3,900 in 1860 to 28,225 in 1910. Inadequate hygienic conditions - especially with regard to the water supply - led to a typhus epidemic in 1902. In addition, the demand for water increased for the population, but also for the newly emerging industrial companies. At the beginning of the 20th century, this led to the planning of a modern, central water supply .
The first test drilling began in 1904, and in 1910 a waterworks was built on what was then Dratelnstrasse, consisting of a machine house and service building. In 1911 the water tower was built, which was more than 1.5 km away from the waterworks and was connected to it by a pipeline.
It was not until 1956 that Wilhelmsburg was integrated into the Hamburg supply network with the construction of a line through the Süderelbe . Modern pumps made the tower obsolete, so it was taken off the grid in 1957.
Conversion
Emergency housing was built in the tower as early as the Second World War. These were renovated in the 1980s and provided with central heating. In 1991 the Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius acquired the tower, which is also the sponsor of the adjacent Groß Sand hospital. The building will continue to be used for residential purposes.
Movie
The water tower occurs in Hark Bohm's North Sea is Mordsee .
See also
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
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 12.4 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 6.2" E