Hamburg-Lokstedt water tower
| Hamburg-Lokstedt water tower | |
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| Construction year: | 1910/1911 |
| Tower height: | 50.25 m |
| Usable height: | 36.5 m |
| Container type: |
 Intze 1 |
| Volume of the container: | 500 m³ |
| Shutdown: | 1960s |
| Original use: | Urban water supply |
| Todays use: | Residential use |
| Monument protection: | Cultural monument since 1985 |
The Lokstedter water tower is located in the Hamburg district of Lokstedt , near the confluence of the Süderfeldstrasse and the Lokstedter Steindamm. It is no longer used as a water tower , but has been converted for residential purposes. With its height of 50.25 m, it clearly towers above the low residential buildings of Lokstedt and thus forms a landmark of the district.
History of origin
Around 1900 the municipality of Lokstedt was not yet part of Hamburg . As a result of the rapid development of the Hanseatic city, many, mostly wealthy, Hamburg residents moved to Lokstedt, so that the population there also increased by leaps and bounds. Therefore, in the first decade of the 20th century, the community began preparations for a central water supply . Several wells were built and in 1910 a waterworks was built on the street "An der Pulvermühle". The water tower was built in 1910/11 according to the design of the Hamburg civil engineers Ludwig and Hermann Mannes.
Construction and technology
The brick- built tower is clad with copper sheets except for a base area. A shaft that tapers conically at the top is followed by a protruding head in which the water container was originally located. The top of the tower is closed off by a conical roof with a roof lantern . The elaborate decorations and decorative elements - especially in the head area of the tower - are characteristic of the industrial architecture of historicism . The pipes and a staircase leading up to the wall originally ran inside the shaft. Another spiral staircase led through an inner cylinder in the water tank to the lantern.
The water tank was a wrought iron Intze-I tank with a capacity of 500 m³. It had a diameter of 10 m and a height of 7 m. The usable height was 36.5 m. The effective height is understood to be the level of the highest water level in the tank above the site.
Original usage
The water tower only served as a pressure compensation and reserve for the Lokstedt water supply. The two powerful pumps of the waterworks pushed the water directly into the network, so that a larger water supply was unnecessary. While initially only the Lokstedt area was supplied, in 1912 the neighboring municipality of Niendorf was connected to the Lokstedt network. The increasing population resulted in bottlenecks, so that more wells had to be drilled. After the towns were merged to form the enlarged Lokstedt community, a new waterworks was built in Schnelsen in 1931 . The Lokstedt plant was closed in 1946. The water tower fulfilled its function until the 1960s and was then shut down. Modern pumps had made it superfluous.
Conversion
In 1984 the Schwander family bought the tower to use it for residential purposes. The tower has been a listed building since 1986 , after which construction work began according to plans by the architect Siegfried Geissler. For residential use, the fire brigade has made it mandatory to attach a parapet that can be circumvented at the level of the lowest living level. The fire brigade ladders are a maximum of 30 m long.
The following changes were made during the renovation:
- Installation of an elevator
- Installation of a small granny flat on the first floor
- Installation of an apartment in the water tank area on three levels (only the inner cylinder of the container was removed, the apartment was built into the container.)
- There were only minor changes to the outside due to larger windows in the container area and the circulation.
See also
literature
- Ursula Aldag: Lokstedt in the course of a century. Memories in words and pictures. Prange, Barmstedt 1996.
- Jens U. Schmidt: Water towers in Bremen and Hamburg. Hanseatic water towers . Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2011, ISBN 978-3-86929-190-1 .
- Rüdiger Stoye : The whale in the water tower. Moritz-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89565-198-4 (picture book).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 33.8 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 6.7" E