Weingartstrasse waterworks

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Weingartstrasse waterworks

The waterworks Weingart Road is a 1880 by Heinrich Scheven built waterworks in Neuss Epiphany quarter and today after restoration and rebuilding a listed and award-winning residential district of social housing .

history

In 1880, the city of Neuss commissioned the engineer Heinrich Scheven from Bochum to build a waterworks with a pipeline network to supply drinking water to the city center of Neuss. In the course of this, he built a pump hall and a master craftsman's house in a concession on an area in Weingartenstrasse between 1880 and 1881. The waterworks was then taken over by the city of Neuss in 1883. Approx. 206,000 m³ of drinking water was pumped up annually from a 30 meter deep well using steam engines and fed into the network. Electric pumps were later used. After a nearby electroplating plant contaminated the groundwater with heavy metals, operations were stopped for several years in 1979 and completely shut down in 1985.

In 1987, the Neusser Bauverein took over the site on the basis of the alternative uses developed by the architects' office Grosser and designed the “residential studios in the former waterworks” with the architects from Rudolf Küppers.

As part of the implementation, the pump hall with six maisonette apartments , which are grouped around an atrium , was expanded and three studio apartments were set up in the remise for artists who are eligible to live. The master craftsman's house was also renovated and further apartments were added. Between 1988 and 1991, the Neuss-based architect Hubertus Grosser built an additional 21 new apartments on the 4370 m² property.

architecture

The Weingartstraße waterworks was the first to secure the drinking water supply for the city center in Neuss. It was of essential importance for the urban development and industrialization of Neuss and "a typical example of industrial architecture of the 19th century". The property includes the cityscape-defining pump hall, which was built as a brick hall in seven grids with a gently sloping gable roof on steel trusses , a shed and a foreman ́s house as a free-standing brick house in two-storey construction in a 3 × 3 grid with a flat sloping gable roof protruding all around. The old buildings were renovated and are now under monument protection with their new use (No. 3/007). The renovation and renovation work that began in 1985 was publicly funded and awarded the Federal Prize for High Quality - Affordable Costs .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Conversion of the former waterworks (project documentation). Official website of Neusser Bauverein . Retrieved May 12, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Artists live in the pump house ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , rp-online of June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  3. ^ Construction of residential studios in the former waterworks , official website of Neusser Bauverein . Retrieved May 12, 2016
  4. ^ Wasserwerk Weingart Strasse 38–42 Neuss , official website of Grosser Architekten. Retrieved May 13, 2016
  5. ↑ neuss.de: A little insight into a large number of listed objects in Neuss

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 24.4 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 36.3"  E