Rheindahlen water tower
.jpg)
The water tower Rheindahlen is in the district Rheindahlen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Mennrather road 80th
The building was built in 1913. It was entered under no. M 020 on October 14, 1986 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The water tower is located southeast of the old town center of Rheindahlen on Mennrather Straße on a fairly flat surrounding area, largely determined by field management.
architecture
The round water tower built in 1913 is 41.6 m high and made entirely of brick . It consists of a substructure, shaft and head piece. The water reservoir holds a little more than 150 m³.
The elegant, restrained, ornate water tower is a successful example of civil engineering . In view of its artistic execution and the generally rare tower structures, this technical monument is worth protecting for architectural and industrial archeological reasons.
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( archive.org ).
Web links
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '29.3 " N , 6 ° 22' 1.9" E