Lobbe wind pumping station

Lobbe wind pumping station (before destruction by storm)

The Lobbe wind pumping station (also called a wind turbine or water mill ) is a listed wind pump near Lobbe on the Mönchgut peninsula on Rügen . The western wind turbine is located east of the country road 292 and the accompanying cycle path that connect Middelhagen and Lobbe.

It was built around 1920, according to other sources as early as 1900, as a so-called slow runner and was used to skim off water. The green and reed areas around the Großer Lobber See were thus drained. The height of the wind axis is 14 meters, the diameter of the wind rose 9.9 meters. With the help of wind power, an Archimedean screw was operated that lifted the water from the area to be drained. The catchment area was about 5 km ² , the diked polder area was 2.6 km ² . The drainage of the area made it possible to use it for agriculture.

The function of the wind pumping station was replaced in 1955 by the use of electrically operated pumps. The pump used today has a 37 kW motor and can pump up to 3150 m ^{3 of} water per hour . It has been completely out of order since 2015.

In 1987/88 the VEB Meliorationskombinat Rostock , operating part Gingst , reconstructed the wind pumping station, whereby it remained as the last of the approximately 33 wind pumping stations originally built between 1900 and 1965 on Rügen. In 1997 a restoration took place. In a storm in mid-November 2018, the compass rose crashed and many parts of it were destroyed. The damaged compass rose has now been recovered by the Mönchgut community. It should be repaired by autumn 2019, for which donations are being collected.

literature

• Georg Jung: Sea embracing and chalk green, Rügen from A – Z. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8319-0381-8 , p. 138.

Web links

Commons : Windschöpfwerk Lobbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about wind pumping station Lobbe in the state bibliography MV
• Ostsee-Zeitung.de "Lobber Windschöpfwerk destroyed" , and history on Ostsee-Zeitung.de from November 19, 2018
• die nordstory - Rüganer among themselves - an island in winter , documentary by NDR, 2020, etc. a. with pictures of the repair

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rescue for wind bucket wheel Lobbe started Ostsee-Zeitung on April 12, 2019, accessed on August 7, 2019.
2. ↑ Georg Jung: Sea wraps and chalk green. P. 138.
3. ↑ Ostsee-Zeitung.de Lobber wind pumping station destroyed , from November 19, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2020.

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 30.6 ″  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 30.8 ″  E