Water tower on the Nesselberg

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Water tower on the Nesselberg

The disused water tower on the Nesselberg is in Waren (Müritz) in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It has been a listed building since 1978 (see also the list of architectural monuments in Waren (Müritz) ).

history

With the population growth at the end of the 19th century, the demand for water increased and the drinking water wells were no longer sufficient. On May 13, 1896, a contract was signed with the Heinrich Scheven company in Bochum to create a sewerage project. After examining the groundwater quality, it was decided to build a 35 meter high water and observation tower with a platform and gallery on the Nesselberg and commissioned Scheven with the execution. The waterworks and water tower were put into operation on November 1st, 1897.

The water tower, which had a massive base about 14 meters high, contained a wrought-iron container. It was located about 280 m from the pumping station. The pumps, driven by steam engines, pumped water into eight pipe wells from a depth of 12 meters. At the beginning, 209 house connections were supplied with water. The water that was not immediately fed into this city network was pumped into the reservoir of the water tower.

The facility, the construction costs of which were estimated at 240,000 marks, was initially still owned by Heinrich Scheven. Although he had received an operating license for 50 years, he already sold it in 1898 for 225,000 marks to the Deutsche Wasserwerke AG in Berlin .

On January 11, 1900, the wooden structure of the tower caught fire through a glowing stove pipe in the apartment under the water tank. The hand pumps of the fire brigade were not sufficient for the fire-fighting water to this height, so that the tower burned down. The fact that a water tower fell victim to a fire gave rise to derisive comments in the press. A postcard about this incident, based on a sketch by Ulrich Kählers, was also printed.

The tower was rebuilt. In 1919 the stock corporation sold the waterworks to the city of Waren for 500,000 marks . The vapor piston pumps were gradually replaced by diesel engines from 1926 to 1928. From 1929/30, however, they worked with electrically operated centrifugal pumps .

Badly damaged in the Second World War, the water tower was restored in 1953 and used as a water reservoir until the 1980s. After the last guardian who had lived in the tower until the 1990s, the building fell into disrepair. In 2001/02 the city had the roof and half-timbered renovation. After several usage concepts for the tower had not been implemented, the city of Waren (Müritz) sold the tower in 2008 to a cooperative that wanted to convert the tower into holiday apartments. From October 2009 to June 2011 four holiday apartments were built into the tower.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Landesdenkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Monument of the Month March 2012 ( Memento from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ TWArchitekten: water tower goods, Müritz | Apartments

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm auf dem Nesselberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 '18.4 "  N , 12 ° 41' 35.9"  E