Möller-Wedel water tower
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| Construction year: | 1943 |
| Tower height: | 39 m |
| Usable height: | 37.5 m |
| Container type: | Several connected rectangular containers |
| Total volume of the containers: | 300 m³ |
| Operating condition: | In operation (2010) |
| Other use: | Office space below the container |
The Möller water tower in Wedel is located on the company's premises (address: Rosengarten 10). It was built in 1943 together with the attached company building. As an extension, it is not immediately recognizable as a water tower , especially since it is used as an office building below the container area.
Building
It is a functional brick building with a plastered ground floor on a rectangular floor plan. Above the office floors - slightly indented - is the container area with a surrounding gallery. (In the main building we find the same structure with an indented upper floor and gallery.) Behind the simple upper walls there is a system of connected water tanks with a total capacity of 300 m³. A latticed platform on the roof completes the building at the top. Webcams have recently been installed here that show a view of the city.
History of the water supply of Wedel
The Wedels water supply is closely linked to the Möller-Wedel company. The company, which emerged from a workshop run by the Wedel optician Johann Diedrich Möller , developed into an industrial company at the beginning of the 20th century. In order to obtain the water required for grinding optical elements, Möller had a deep well drilled in 1911 and built a first water tower a year later. Right from the start, the pumped water was not only used for operation, but also delivered to the surrounding households and to the train station. The increased water demand led to expansions of the water supply system in the 1920s. The old water tower was raised. In 1929 the Möller company signed a contract with the city of Wedel for the supply of water.
At the beginning of the 1940s, this expansion was no longer sufficient to supply the company and households. The new production building was designed so that one wing was raised to serve as a water tower. After the construction was completed, the old water tower was shut down, but it was only demolished in the 1980s.
Current water supply from Wedel
Since 1956, the supply of drinking water has been in the hands of Stadtwerke Wedel. The approximately 40 km long local pipe network of the Möller company was acquired by the city with all obligations and rights. The drinking water was still fed in by Möller. In addition, the Stadtwerke obtained drinking water from the Hamburg waterworks .
ID Möller-Wasserwerke GmbH is a subsidiary of Möller-Wedel, which is now part of the Haag-Streit group. It had three wells and a waterworks with systems for treating the raw water . There are also two additional water tanks with a capacity of 400 m³ each in the factory building. Together with the elevated tank, 1100 m³ of water can be stored. The streets around the company premises were supplied via the pipeline network sold to the city. With this, about a third of the urban area of Wedel was supplied with drinking water from Möller. The water tower was also still in operation. But there was a plan to purchase modern pumping systems to maintain constant water pressure. This would have made the elevated tanks in the tower superfluous. At the beginning of 2016, the water supply of ID Möller-Wasserwerke GmbH ended due to a lack of income for the company. This made the Hamburg waterworks the only supplier.
gallery
Container floor with installed webcams
Several interconnected containers hold a total of 300 m³ of water.
Level switches switch off the supply when the containers are full.
Inside the waterworks building on the Möller-Wedel premises
Systems for water treatment
The raw water is freed from manganese and iron.
View from the tower. The fountains are located under today's shopping center.
See also
literature
- Jens U. Schmidt: Water towers in Schleswig-Holstein. History and stories about the water supply in the north and its most striking buildings. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2008, ISBN 978-3-939656-71-5 .
- Information sheet on the water supply of the city of Wedel, Ed .: Stadtwerke Wedel
Web links
- Wedelwasser on the website of Stadtwerke Wedel
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 46.9 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 23.7" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oliver Gabriel: Wedeler Wasser: 2016 is over | shz.de. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .