Water tower on the Petrisberg
The water tower on the Petrisberg in Trier is a 39 meter high former water tower , which was built in 1958 according to the plans of the Trier architect Herbert Montebaur.
With a capacity of 412,000 liters, it was most recently used to supply Olewig with water . It was built in particular to supply the barracks on Petrisberg and the districts of Tarforst and Neu-Kürenz . Since 1988 it has been replaced by a larger elevated tank . It has been an official landmark of the city of Trier since 1998 and is illuminated at night. The almost 39.06 m high tower can be climbed via a staircase with 144 steps.
At the time the tower was built, it was given the adjectives “futuristic”, “avant-garde”, “filigree” and was considered an architecturally and structurally interesting building. The strikingly slender construction of the reinforced concrete elevated tank is supported by four flat, slender concrete pillars with a cross-section of 0.45 m by 4.30 m at the bottom. The pillars were set up in such a way that there was space in the middle for a 3.30 m wide stair shaft with a clear width. To ensure stability, the supporting pillars rest on a strong base plate measuring twelve by twelve meters. The 32.5 m towering columns taper with a ratio of 1:30.
Due to the slim design - the mean diameter of the reinforced concrete tank is only 8.50 m - a difference in the water level of eight meters between empty and full tank has to be accepted. The resulting pressure differences when feeding the tank are eliminated by installing the water inlet at the top of the tank. The double-walled container is made entirely of concrete. A ten centimeter thick insulating layer made of heat-insulating plastic is embedded between the concrete walls to protect against cold and heat. This is necessary because the container is exposed to both the cold winds and the sun due to its location on a ridge.
The pipelines lie in a 1.10 m diameter core, which is located in the stair shaft with a diameter of 3.30 m. A 1.10 m wide spiral staircase leads around this core to the almost completely glazed viewing platform, which can be reached below the container at a height of approx. 30 m. The stair shaft was completely glazed with special concrete honeycomb windows (these were later replaced by sheet steel cladding).
The tower also carried the antenna for the radio communication system of the Trier municipal utility . The tower, which has been on the list of monuments since 1998 , was completely scaffolded and renovated in 2004 on the occasion of the Trier State Garden Show .
Web links
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- Trierischer Volksfreund : Article of February 20, 1957; Article of May 8, 1957; Article of June 30, 1957; Article of October 22, 1957; Article of March 16, 1958; Article of May 20, 1958; Article of February 20, 1998, editor Roland Morgen, Who wants superfluous water tower ?; Article of February 24, 1998; Article of July 23, 1998; Article of June 28, 1999; Article of June 9, 2003; Article dated September 2, 2003
- Rathaus-Zeitung : Article of February 24, 1998, "Rocket" inspires the imagination, page 5.
- Newspaper for local economy : water towers like out of a toy box. No. 46, March 1958, page 11
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on the water tower on the Petrisberg in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
- ↑ a b c The SWT water tower on the Petrisberg. (PDF; 2.62 MB) Stadtwerke Trier Versorgungs-GmbH, September 24, 2010, accessed on September 10, 2015 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 6 ″ N , 6 ° 39 ′ 52 ″ E