Misburg water tower

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The former water tower at the street corner Hannoversche street corner on Seelberg

The Misburg Water Tower or Misburg Water Tower in Hanover is a water tower built in the 20th century on a former air raid shelter . The location of the now listed building is the corner of Hannoversche Straße Am Seelberg in the Misburg-Nord district, which is now part of Hanover .

history

Cloud break over the former water tower (left) and the chimneys of the cement industry near Hanover ; around 1984

The now disused water tower rests on an air raid shelter that was built during the Nazi era and during the Second World War in the 1940s . During the air raids on Hanover and in Misburg, particularly on the Deurag-Nerag oil refinery facilities at Misburg harbor , the tower-like, round bunker served as a shelter from the bombs for several Misburg civilians . In the event of an air-raid alarm , "[...] some forced laborers and prisoners of war , but only from Western European countries" were allowed into the bunker. Up to 1200 people deported from the Neuengamme and Buchenwald concentration camps for forced labor to the nearby Hanover-Misburg satellite camp - mostly from Poland and the Soviet Union - found no protection in the round bunker.

In 1959 the tower was given the “distinctive tower” and was thus 30 meters high. From 1960 to 1971 the building served as a water tower.

The street Am Wasserturm was laid out south of Hannoversche Strasse in Misburg-Nord in 1962 .

At the end of the 1980s, people got involved privately to expand practice rooms for music groups in the vacant building . Around the same time, the water tower had already been declared a monument . It is considered the landmark of the town of Misburg, which was independent until 1974, and is today the landmark of the district.

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm Misburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Juan Carlos Blanco Varela, Wolfgang Illmer : 1000 years of Mudzborgh. From Mudisa via Mudzborgh to Misburg. Anniversary edition. wochenspiegel Verlag, Hannover 2015, p. 33.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f N.N. : Divided into three parts - always / Tour 18: Misburg , sub-title Petrified Shells on a trip to Jerusalem , compiled by the history initiative Hannover-Ost of the Naturfreundejugend OG Hannover and Kulturtreff Roderbruch. In: Ingo Bultmann (Hrsg.): Hannover on foot. 18 city tours through history and the present. VSA, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3-87975-471-3 , pp. 236–245, here especially p. 238f.
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : All about "Meyer's Garden". In: ders .: From Anderten to Stöcken ... Harenberg-Labs, Hannover 1987, ISBN 3-89042-023-0 , p. 33.
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: At the water tower. In: ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 22.
  5. ↑ Monument water tower. ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Meine-Umweltkarte-Niedersachsen.de. Police station Misburg. In: Hanover Police Directorate. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meine-umweltkarte-niedersachsen.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '16.8 "  N , 9 ° 50' 33.8"  E