Klotzsche water tower

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The water tower in Klotzsche

The Klotzsche water tower was built in 1935 in the Klotzsche community a little north of what was then Dresden's city limits. It is considered the landmark of Klotzsche, which was elevated to a city in the same year and incorporated into Dresden in 1950 . The building on Dörnichtweg, which is now used as a residential building, is a listed building.

history

As early as 1899, Klotzsche had built his own waterworks on Königsbrücker Landstrasse. The groundwater was pumped through several deep wells, from which the water was first pumped into a water tank on the factory premises and from there into an elevated tank on the Rähnitzer Höhe. Since this had to be demolished in 1935 for the construction of Dresden Airport (it was located in the area of ​​the southern end of today's runway), the municipal administration decided on a new building on the edge of the village center. The water tower with its 10,000 hectolitre elevated tank has towered over the town since then and is a landmark of Klotzsche. It was officially put into operation on July 20, 1935.

In the post-war period, the Klotzscher waterworks was shut down, while the tower was still in service until the 1960s. It was also used as a fire watch tower. From 1970 to 1987 the building served as a municipal training center. In 2004 all technical systems were removed and apartments were built in instead.

description

The 35 meter high water tower was built by the architects Wahl and Vollmar. The design language of the water tower “is reminiscent of Tessenow buildings, such as B. the state school in Klotzsche ”, which was designed in the style of neoclassicism . On the wall of the tower was a large relief by the artist Rudolf Wittig , which shows the dancer Marianne Vogelsang as the bare end of her knees , who draws water from a spring with a cup. This work, which was carried out before 1932, was removed during the renovation of the water tower in 2003/04 and is now on a pedestal at the entrance to the property. During the renovation, the tower itself received additional windows on the top three floors below the viewing gallery and a glazed veranda on the upper floor.

Individual evidence

  1. Cultural monuments on the Dresden themed city map. Retrieved April 5, 2013 .
  2. a b Description of the water tower. Retrieved July 19, 2015 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Wittig . In: Joachim Uhlitzsch : Art on the move, Dresden 1918–1933 . Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1980, p. 333.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 49 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 1.9 ″  E