Plön water tower
| Plön water tower | |
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| Construction year: | 1913 |
| Tower height: | 42.5 m |
| Usable height: | 39.5 m |
| Container type: |
 Intze 1
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| Volume of the container: | 150 m³ |
| Shutdown: | 1974 |
| Original use: | Urban water supply |
| Todays use: | (Vacation) apartment |
The Plön water tower is located in the east of the city of Plön on Scharweg. The water tower was built in 1913 according to the plans of the Bremen engineer Carl Franke. Stylistically, it can be assigned to the late Art Nouveau or reform architecture . After it was closed in 1974, it was initially supposed to be demolished, but in 1977 it was one of the first industrial and technical monuments to be placed under monument protection in Schleswig-Holstein .
Building description
The water tower is 42.5 m high, its iron water tank holds 150 m³ and is of the so-called Intze 1 construction . The tower shaft with brick cladding is structured by six buttresses . The cladding of the container is made of natural slate on a wooden substructure. Between the slimmer tower shaft and the container there is a clearly cantilevered, circumferential viewing gallery with massive parapets , the six consoles of which develop from the six pillars of the tower shaft. Particularly characteristic of the Plön water tower is the change in material and color between brick, slate and light plastering of the gallery.
History of the Plön water supply
In 1912, at the request of the municipal authorities, the Plön municipal colleges decided to set up a municipal waterworks. The machine house and the three pipe wells were built by the Paul Glockenbach construction company on the shores of the Great Plöner See . The tower was built above it on the Hohenberg. The plant went into operation at the end of 1913.
Because of the population increase, the waterworks had to be expanded several times. In addition, wells that had become unusable had to be replaced with new ones.
In the 1960s, the municipal utilities first built a makeshift waterworks and then in 1965 an elevated tank on the Parnassus. This was 67 m above sea level and contained 1000 m³ of water. This ultimately made the water tower superfluous. The building has not been used as a water tower since 1974.
The Schleswag , which had in 1972 taken over the Ploen water supply, 1976, a demolition request for the tower. This was not granted, however, because there was strong resistance in the population, which was supported by the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for Monument Preservation . In 1977 the water tower was placed under a preservation order and then renovated by Schleswag.
Conversion
In 1985, a couple had an apartment built into the tower according to the plans of a local architect after the power supply company Schleswag had handed over the tower free of charge. The apartment is on the third floor. It has five levels one above the other. Living and working areas are housed in the former water tank. The hall, bathroom and bedroom are located in the shaft of the tower. An elevator leads from the entrance to the entrance hall, 22 m higher, from where stairs lead to the upper floors.
literature
- T. Matz: Conversion of the water tower in Plön.
- Preservation of monuments in Schleswig-Holstein , ISSN 0946-4549 , 1999.
- 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 .
Web links
- The holiday home am Stiel in Plön in the archive of German water towers , accessed on November 17, 2015
- Plön views with old postcard motifs with and from the water tower
Coordinates: 54 ° 9 '22.3 " N , 10 ° 26' 8.1" E