Remscheid water tower
The Remscheid water tower , also popularly known as Waterbölles , is one of the buildings that define the cityscape of Remscheid, the independent Bergisch city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia , alongside the Remscheid town hall . It was inaugurated on March 1st, 1884 and was jokingly referred to as the “big thumb of the chamberlain”. In the early 1950s, the RGA held a competition to find a popular nickname for the tower. The term "Waterbölles" was created there. Lothar Kaiser chose the same name for the second Remscheider online newspaper in 2006 (rga-online was the first Remscheider online newspaper to be launched in June 1996).
Location and description
The water tower is on the "Hochstraße" and is located together with the town hall, the Bergischer Löwen in front of it on Theodor-Heuss-Platz and the Allee-Center on the second highest elevation of the city at an altitude of about 365 meters above sea level in the district of Alt -Remscheid . Together with the 62 meter high town hall tower, it characterizes the city's silhouette . At the same time, it is a landmark that is visible from afar .
For the drinking water supply of the up-and-coming industrial city of Remscheid in the years 1881-1883 the water tower was built together with a waterworks in the Eschbachtal and a pipe network. In the years 1889-1891, the Eschbachtalsperre , the first dam with a masonry dam in Germany, was built to secure the water supply. The tower, which was built according to the Intze principle , is first recorded in topographic maps in the Prussian New Record from 1893 to 1895. It initially had a capacity of 400 m³. Since this was soon no longer sufficient, the water tower was rebuilt in 1906–1908 and a container with a capacity of 1500 m³ was placed on the existing base. A renovation of the tower was shot down in 2002. It is still in operation today and, together with the water tower on Baisieper Straße and two other water tanks, ensures the drinking water supply for Remscheid.
The listed tower is bricked and plastered and painted white in the lower area. Above this are the floors with the water tank. They have a twelve-sided floor plan with exposed brickwork , divided at the corners by plastered pilasters , and have windows. The verschieferte roof is of the same shape and has a with copper sheet clad hood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Lotzmann: Remscheid. A lost cityscape. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1994, ISBN 3-86134-166-2 .
- ↑ Historika25, Land Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia , sheet 4809, Remscheid
- ↑ EWS / Energy and Water for Remscheid Info on the company's website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 3 ″ E