Hahnerberg water tower

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The Hahnerberg water tower was a water tower in what is now the Hahnerberg residential area in Wuppertal , which served to supply Elberfeld with drinking water . It was located near the fork in the road Cronenberger Strasse / Küllenhahner Strasse on the Wuppertaler Südhöhen .

The slender, 38 m high tower was built in 1890-1892. The tower shaft, made of red bricks , carried an iron container with a capacity of 120 m³. It was supplied with Elberfeld water via a pumping station at today's Klever Platz .

The water tower also served as an observation tower : for 10 pfennigs you could climb the 193 steps of a cast iron staircase to the battlements. From there you had a view of the Rhine , the Oberbergisches and the Sauerland . From 1906 onwards it was no longer possible to climb the tower because the tower watchman's apartment no longer met health requirements and the tower was therefore permanently unguarded.

The tower was at the center of an episode in the workers' uprising during the Kapp Putsch in 1920 , when a machine gun post stationed on it shot at a train of 1,000 workers. This and the subsequent rescue of injured people resulted in numerous deaths.

The tower, which has since been shut down as a water reservoir, was blown up on October 4, 1939 because it was dilapidated. The General-Anzeiger wrote at the time:

"His progressive dilapidation, which ultimately endangered the safety of residents and walkers, made his resignation appear advisable."

- General-Anzeiger of the city of Wuppertal

It is also said that in reality the tower had to give way because it would have been a recognizable landmark for air strikes . Four weeks before the demolition, the Nazi regime began the Second World War with the attack on Poland .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Page no longer available , search in web archives: On the battles at the water tower during the Kapp Putsch and further information, accessed April 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.spd-cronenberg.de
  2. ↑ 100 years of WZ (1887–1987). Wuppertal in the mirror of his newspaper, p. 60.
  3. ↑ Reiner Rhefus: Spurensicherung 1920. The workers ' uprising against the Kapp Putsch and the workers' culture in the Bergisches Land at that time. Essen 2000, p. 66.
  4. ^ Festschrift 25 years of the Hahnerberg-Cronenfeld Citizens' Association Wuppertal 1988, p. 59.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '46.3 "  N , 7 ° 8' 54.2"  E