Hamburg-Ochsenzoll water tower
| Water tower hospital Ochsenzoll |
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| Construction year: | 1913 |
| Tower height: | 32.3 m |
| Usable height: | 21 m |
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 Loft container
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| Volume of the container: | 600 m³ |
| Use: | Water supply to the clinic |
| Operating condition: | shut down |
| Monument protection: | Cultural monument with other hospital buildings |
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The water tower of the Ochsenzoll hospital - today the location of the Asklepios Clinic North - is in the eastern part of the extensive hospital grounds in Hamburg-Langenhorn . The 32 m high structure protrudes only a little over the old trees of the area.
Building
The water tower , built in 1913, is a largely brick-clad reinforced concrete structure . Overall, the building forms a cylinder. However, this is loosened in the lower area by incisions between pillar-like elements. They reveal a smaller inner cylinder, the walls of which are pierced by windows. The inner cylinder expands gradually towards the container. Finally, the brick surfaces of the pillars change with plastered surfaces a few centimeters back. Each plastered area has a long, narrow window for exposing the container walls. A number of other windows follow immediately under the roof. They illuminate the top of the container. The roof is conical and covered with copper.
In the tower head there is a wrought-iron loft container with a capacity of 600 m³. The water treatment systems are located on the lower floor .
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History of the water supply of the Ochsenzoller hospital
The Ochsenzoller Hospital was founded in 1892 as the Langenhorn State Insane Asylum. The complex should have a deliberately rural character. For this purpose, circular roads with smaller buildings were laid on a total of 130 hectares of forest area. Since the system was 15 km from Hamburg city center, it could not be connected to the Hamburg water network. So it was decided to set up their own supply network. For this purpose, a well with a pump house and three smaller water towers one after the other were built from 1892 to 1913, none of which is standing today.
Due to the increasing water consumption, the hospital expanded the water supply in the years 1910 to 1914. A second well was drilled and the new water tower was built, which is still in operation today. A third well with a well house was added between 1928 and 1929.
Today the clinic pumps up to 250,000 m³ of water a year for its own use and for a laundry on the premises that supplies several hospitals. The costs incurred for the clinic are only a quarter of the water price of the Hamburg waterworks . However, this only applies as long as there are no major investments.
The water tower has not been used since 2012. It is a listed building and is the property of Patrizia AG .
Since then, it has been visited several times as part of the Open Monument Day and has often been used in light and sound performances by the artist Katrin Bethge and the artist John Eckert, in which it served as a canvas surface, for example in 2013 and 2015.
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
- Monument to be visited , Hamburger Wochenblatt, 2013
- Country life in Langenhorn , Patrizia AG., 2016
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 20.9 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 39.5 ″ E