Lueneburg water tower
The Lüneburg water tower was built between 1905 and 1907 in the south-east of Lüneburg's old town. The former water tower now serves as a lookout tower . The building stands today between a residential complex on the site of the former Nordlandhalle and the old Johanneum, which serves as a secondary school .
The construction of the tower goes back to a resolution of the Lüneburg City Council on November 10, 1904. The Uenglinger Tor was evidently the model for the design of the tower facade . It dates from the 15th century and served as the city gate of the Hanseatic city of Stendal in the Altmark. The then city architect Richard Kampf (born March 17, 1859 in Hilden ; † December 14, 1919 in Lüneburg) designed the sketch for the tower, the architect Franz Krüger (born January 6, 1873 in Berlin ; † May 19, 1936 in Lüneburg) took over the elaboration of the individual drawings as well as the construction management. The former storeroom of the city archive on the south side of the town hall and the Wilhelm Raabe school also come from Kampf . Krüger planned, among other things, the lodge house, two wings of the museum for the Principality of Lüneburg and the prioresses house of the Lüne monastery .
The line of the recently demolished medieval fortifications was chosen as the location of the water tower. On November 12, 1907, the 56 m high tower was put into operation. Today it is the tallest non-church building in the city center and consists of an 18 meter high base with a square floor plan and a cylindrical structure. The tower shaft, structured with 16 buttresses, supports the walled elevated tank with a volume of 500 m³. The storage capacity of the container soon proved to be insufficient; in 1913 this supply was only sufficient for one morning. The tower was raised at least once. The roof area of the base building, framed with a high crenellated wreath, was intended as a viewing platform from the start.
In the summer of 1986 the structure was decommissioned and the technology contained therein, with the exception of the actual water tank, was scrapped. An initially planned demolition failed because of the costs; later the building was placed under a preservation order. This was not without controversy among the population because of the immense size - the base already towers over the adjacent school. From 1997 the tower was renovated in the course of the Expo 2000 and has been available at its full height as a viewing tower since June 2000. It is maintained by a sponsoring association of the neighboring secondary school, which is financed from the entrance fees and by renting event rooms. The upper floors of the tower are partly furnished as a museum. In the event rooms on the lower floors, exhibitions and small concerts take place alternately. The city's registry office also has a branch here so that weddings can take place in the water tower. An elevator takes guests to level 6 of the tower. From here there are another 20 steps on a spiral staircase to the viewing terrace. The students of the secondary school offer around 250 guided tours every year.
The tower itself is now located on the grounds of the Stadtmitte Oberschule, whose schoolyard extends from the school building to the tower. The parking garage of the former Nordlandhalle began directly on the east side of the tower, a somewhat decorative functional building from the 1970s, which has since given way to the Am Wasserturm residential park . The facade of today's Stadtmitte multi-storey car park is adapted to the appearance of the facade of the water tower.
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- ↑ Werner H. Preuss: Der Wasserturm , In: Quadrat, magazine for life in Lüneburg, No. 10, October 2011, pp. 14-17. PDF file
- ↑ Experience Lüneburg: The Lüneburg Water Tower
- ↑ water tower. Accessed April 21, 2018 (German).
- ↑ 15 million for new quarters. In: LZonline. March 27, 2014, accessed February 27, 2017 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 48 " N , 10 ° 24 ′ 46.6" E