Water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof

Water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof

View from the south

The water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof is an elevated water tank of the former Dortmund Süd depot . It was built by the Deutsche Reichsbahn between 1923 and 1927 and supplied steam locomotives with boiler feed water until the 1950s .

Two tanks made of reinforced concrete with a capacity of 800 m³ each formed the storage facility, which took up the upper third of the 43 meter high building. Shops were originally to be found on the ground floor, while the upper floors housed social rooms for railway staff. Here there was a bathing establishment as well as overnight accommodation for train attendants, railway operators and workshop workers.

A reinforced concrete frame is hidden behind the brick facade. The surrounding cornices structure the building and have no static function. In the water tower located after the conversion the office of the architect Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck and various offices and advertising agencies.

The water tower of the Dortmund south station is registered as a monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund and part of the route of industrial culture .

Web links

Commons : Water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0329. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 16, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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 ° 30 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 29"  E