Water tower Ratzeburg-St. Georgsberg
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| Construction year: | 1927 |
| Tower height: | 12.15 m |
| Usable height: | 9.25 m |
| Container type: | Cylindrical container |
| Container volume: | 75 m³ |
| Original use: | Drinking water supply from St. Georgsberg |
The water tower Ratzeburg-St. Georgsberg is the second water tower in Ratzeburg next to the water tower on the Hindenburghöhe . It stands on a hill on Klopstockweg , the highest point in the Ratzeburg district of St. Georgsberg.
Building
The actual water tower, which later received an extension that is a simple - in its outer shape octagonal executed - brick structure 12 meters high, divided into four floors. The next floor up is narrower than the previous one, resulting in a conical overall impression. A railing surrounds the flat roof. Radio antennas are installed there today; originally the roof supported a large wind turbine. This drove a rod pump that pumped the water from a well located next to the tower.
History
The then independent community of St. Georgsberg planned to build a waterworks from 1926 . The mayor preferred the connection to the existing Ratzeburg water supply . However, Ratzeburg tied its approval to negotiations on the incorporation . This was rejected by the community council and so the community built its own small waterworks with a water tower in 1927. The incorporation took place anyway in the following year, with which the facility passed into the ownership of the city.
The connection of the water networks from St. Georgsberg and Ratzeburg caused difficulties, as the water level in the St. Georgsberg tower was 4 m higher than in the water tower at the Ratzeburg Hindenburghöhe. According to the law of connected tubes , the Ratzeburg Tower would have overflowed. The merger only succeeded in 1935 after the Ratzeburg tower had been raised.
In the 1970s, the water supply systems in Ratzeburg proved to be so prone to failure and outdated that the city decided to build a new waterworks. The systems went into operation in 1976.
Ratzeburg's water supply is now provided by the United Stadtwerke GmbH Bad Oldesloe - Ratzeburg - Mölln. Six waterworks with a total of 21 wells are connected to the supply network. The water is pumped from 40 m to 140 m depth.
See also
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- 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 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 10 ° 45 ′ 12 ″ E