Water tower of the Magdeburg lift bridge
The water tower of the Hubbrücke Magdeburg is under preservation standing accumulators tower of Hubbrücke Magdeburg on the western shore of the river Elbe in Magdeburg .
architecture
The tower was built in the 1890s in a Gothic style from yellowish clinker brickwork with dark bands, also made from clinker bricks. The three-storey tower is crowned by a cantilevered, pyramid-shaped pointed helmet . There are slot windows on the sides . On the southern side there is a small control house.
function
The structure was part of the hydraulic drive of the Magdeburg lift bridge spanning the Elbe just a few meters further east. The middle section of this railway bridge was movable and was temporarily pulled up at higher water levels. The water required for the existing hydraulic drive was kept ready in this pressurized water accumulator at around 50 to 70 atm .
The water tower is a testament to the type of drive typical for the period from 1880 to 1900 and is one of the seldom preserved functional structures of this early drive technology. In terms of urban planning, the tower is of particular importance in connection with the bridge that was rebuilt in 1934 and the partially preserved railway station facilities.
literature
- Holger Brülls, Dorothee Honekamp-Könemann, Sabine Ullrich: State capital Magdeburg (= List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt. Vol. 14). Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , p. 487.
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '10.4 " N , 11 ° 38' 5.2" E