Norderney water tower
The Norderney water tower is a listed building and a daytime sign on the East Frisian island of Norderney in Lower Saxony .
location
The 46.2 m above sea level. NN high water tower is located in the eastern part of the city on the premises of Stadtwerke Norderney on Jann-Berghaus-Straße.
Object description
The water tower was completed in 1929 and contains an elevated tank with a capacity of 500,000 liters of drinking water below the observation deck. The elevated tank is 8.80 meters wide and 8.56 meters high. Its bottom is 25.7 m above sea level. NN . The water tower was initially to be built on the Georgsdüne, but was then built at the pump house on the initiative of the then operations inspector Ludwig Meyer. For the design of the water tower, Oberregierungs- and Building Councilor Eggerling in Aurich was responsible, whereby the design was based on the tower of the church in Marienhafe. The construction was carried out by the Norderneyer construction company Pieper & Dirks as a subcontractor of the Bremen branch of Windschild & Langelott AG . The earthworks began on April 3, 1929, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 1, 1929, and commissioning took place in early April 1930. On February 18, 1930, drinking water was fed from the tower into the municipal water supply for the first time. The square brick building with a square footprint of eleven meters on a side is the second tallest building on the island of Norderney after the lighthouse and the tallest artificial point in the city. The tank serves as a drinking water reservoir and pressure equalization tank. It creates enough pressure to ensure the water supply even in higher-lying houses and hotels on the island. Before the completion of the water tower, the water pumped from the freshwater bubble under the island was collected in a container in the trapezoidal Georgsdüne (Georgshöhe). The water tank had a capacity of 385,000 liters.
history
The predecessor building was a ventilation tower on the Cape Dune, which shaped the cityscape between 1888 and 1930. The facade of the water tower is decorated with clinker reliefs on each side that protrude from the masonry. On the north side you can see fish jumping out of the water, on the east side sea birds over water, on the south side the Norderneyer Cape with the number 1929 as the year of construction of the water tower and on the west side a Neptune or Poseidon rising up out of the water.
Norderney has a natural reservoir of fresh water in the sediment below the earth's surface. This water bubble is fed by natural precipitation. With deep wells east of the Cape Dune, in the Rupertsberg Forest, in the Blautal and further east in the center of the island, the water is taken, cleaned, filtered and stored in the water tower.
Others
205 steps lead up to the viewing platform of the water tower. A webcam is installed on the water tower . Since the last renovation work in 2009 and 2010, the water tower has been illuminated with LED light in changing colors in the dark. Sightseeing tours to the viewing platform above the water tank are offered between April and October.
photos
Water tower with the building of the volunteer fire department
Aerial view of the tower with the adjacent buildings
literature
- Jann Saathoff: Norderney . tape 1 . The structural development of the island of North Sea Island. Soltau-Kurier, Norden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939870-82-1 .
Web links
- Extraction and processing . Stadtwerke Norderney GmbH. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- Construction of the water tower . Hans-Helmut-Barty. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
References and individual references
- ↑ Jann Saathoff: Norderney . tape 1 - The structural development of the island of North Sea Island. Soltau-Kurier-Norden, Norden 2010, ISBN 978-3-939870-82-1 , p. 96 f .
- ↑ The NBZ reader photo . Hans-Helmut-Barty. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
- ↑ Norderney says goodbye to the incandescent lamp . In: ingenieur.de . VDI Verlag GmbH. June 19, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 30.8 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 22.5" E