Köpenick waterworks
The Köpenick waterworks is a complete monument and a former waterworks in the Köpenick district of Berlin's Treptow-Köpenick district .
history
The architect and town planner Hugo Kinzer designed the waterworks in the English hunting lodge style, and it was built in 1906 with eleven fountains. The waterworks was designed for electric propulsion from the start and the electricity came initially from the Oberspree three-phase current plant and later from the city's own electricity plant. The opening of the waterworks took place in March 1907 and the plant had a capacity of 6000 m³ / day. A Riesler building, four slow filters, a small building for the sand washing, a residential building and a settling basin for the Riesler and the waste water from the sand washing were built.
The waterworks was built at a convenient location, so there was no need to build a water tower. For this purpose, an elevated earth tank with a capacity of 1930 m³ was created 350 meters away in the Müggelberg Mountains, which is 50 meters above the waterworks. In 1913 the number of wells on the two siphon lines was increased to 17 and the plant capacity rose to 7000 m³ / day. When Köpenick was incorporated into Berlin in 1920, the waterworks supplied over 1,145 house connections for 32,500 residents with around 1 million m³ of water annually. The length of the pipe network was 43 kilometers. In 1926 it was given a third set of machines, which is located across in front of the two units of the initial equipment. The waterworks has kept its original condition to this day. At the end of July 1996 the waterworks was shut down. The pipe network of the Friedrichshagen waterworks takes the water from the high-level container, which is filled by a pressure booster station.
literature
- Hilmar Bärthel: Water for Berlin . 1st edition. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-345-00633-2 , p. 134-138 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ List, map, database / Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 43.3 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 59.4" E