Luzenberg water tower
The water tower Luzenberg is a water tower in Mannheim district Luzenberg . It was built from 1906 to 1909 and expanded by two attached school buildings between 1912 and 1914. The water tower was in operation as such until 1976. The entire facility is under monument protection .
Planning and construction
After the Mannheim water tower on Friedrichsplatz, which was completed in 1888, the tower was the second municipal water tower in Mannheim. It was built together with the expansion of the waterworks in Käfertal from 1906 to 1911 and served as a flow tank for the water coming from Käfertal on its way into the city. 29 designs were submitted for the architectural competition announced in 1906 to build the water tower. The first prize went to the architect Ernst Plattner , and the second place went to the civil engineering office architect Friedrich Pippart . The city also bought a design by Albert Friedrich Speer . Finally, a design by Otto Eberbach , submitted out of competition , was carried out and construction management was also assigned to him. Construction began in August 1906. However, as with the construction of the Mannheim water tower about 20 years earlier, problems arose with the architect, since Eberbach turned to Saarland in 1907 and did not take care of the construction in Mannheim.
The tower was put into operation in April 1909. According to plans by Richard Perrey , two school buildings were added to the tower from 1912 to 1914.
After the originally higher tower dome, which was decorated with a top knob, was damaged in the Second World War , the roof of the tower was reconstructed flatter and simpler in the post-war period. The water tower was in operation as such until 1976 and was then extensively repaired. The tower and the attached schools are under monument protection.
technology
The tower is about 52 meters high from street level to the top of the roof. The upper edge of the 2000 cubic meter, 11.16 meter high Intze I type reservoir with a diameter of 16 meters is 38.85 meters above the ground floor, 137.1 m above sea level. Since the water level was about five meters higher than that of the water tower at Friedrichsplatz, the water tower in Luzenberg took on the function of keeping the water pressure in the pipeline network constant, while the older Mannheim water tower only served as a reserve storage tank until 2000.
The masonry of the tower is doubled over a massive base about eight meters high. The visible outer wall only carries the tank cladding and the roof, while the water tank is carried by a conically tapered inner shell.
See also
literature
- Albert Gieseler, Monika Ryll: Water towers in Mannheim. An art and technology history guide. With four suggestions for bike tours to the Mannheim water towers (= small publications of the Mannheim City Archives. No. 9). v. Brandt, Mannheim 1997, ISBN 3-926260-36-X .
Web links
- Rhein-Neckar industrial culture : Luzenberg water tower and school, Mannheim. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 59.7 " N , 8 ° 28 ′ 28" E