Hamburg-Barmbek water tower

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Water tower hospital HH-Barmbek
Water tower
Data
Construction year: 1913
Draft: Dr.-Ing Ruppel
Tower height: 48.4 m
Usable height: 38 m
Container type:
Water tower Hamburg-Winterhude, loft container.jpg
Loft container
Container volume: 450 m³
Operating condition: shut down
Original use: Hospital water supply
Further use: Fitness center
Monument protection: Ensemble protected since 2009

The water tower of the former General Hospital Barmbek rises over 48 m above all hospital buildings and is visible from afar in the surrounding district. As a central structure, the tower is part of the former farm building. The farm building, including the water tower, has been used commercially since 2014 under the name “Water Tower Palace”. The hospital facility is designated as a cultural monument with the object ID 30813.

Building

The main building of the hospital on Fuhlsbüttler Strasse in Barmbek-Nord is framed by a three-wing farm building in a horseshoe shape. At the rear of this building, facing the park, is the water tower . It is structurally connected to the central wing, but protrudes from the building line.

The square substructure of the tower consists of the ground floor and three upper floors. A large arched gate on the ground floor forms the entrance. The side walls of the upper floors each have a bay-like porch that extends over three floors and shows three windows on each floor.

The container area is located above this, set off by a cornice . The container casing is a cylindrical component that is divided by pilaster strips and has a row of small windows at the top. A stairway bay allows you to get past the container walls to the top of the container. The loft container inside originally had a capacity of 450 m³.

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The copper-covered roof is divided into two parts by a narrow vertical wall with small windows: a lower roof ring and a dome-like helmet.

History

The tower was built in 1912 as part of the new hospital building in the Barmbek district. The design comes from the Hamburg building officer Dr.-Ing. Ruppel. The hospital was equipped with its own water supply from the start .

Two electric pumps pumped the water from two wells 35 m and 62 m deep into the de-ironing system in the tower basement and then into the elevated tank. From the elevated tank, the water entered the hospital's cold water network by gravity. At times, the tower also supplied the hot water system in the boiler house and, via a softening system, the laundry in the farm building.

Further use

At the end of the 1990s it was decided to give up the Barmbek hospital, which was built in a pavilion style, in favor of a modern clinic. With the new construction of the Asklepios Klinik Barmbek in 2005, large areas of the hospital grounds became available for a new residential area, Quartier 21. In the more than 60 former hospital buildings, apartments are being built in a park-like environment.

The water tower, which had lost its function, was sold together with the main building to IDEM Haus GmbH in early 2010. The company wants to revitalize the tower and convert it into a fitness center. To this end, 4000 m² are to be redesigned on several floors. The revitalized farm building, including the water tower, has been used commercially since 2014 and marketed as the “water tower palace”. The wellness area of ​​a fitness center is housed in the water tower. In addition, the farm building houses a medical center, a restaurant, a day care center and other commercial and office space.

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to § 6 paragraph 1 Hamburg Monument Protection Act of April 5, 2013, (HmbGVBl p. 142), as of October 29, 2012

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 21.4 ″  E