Residential water tower
A residential water tower is a water tower that, in addition to its technical function, also serves as a residential building.
Only a few such buildings have been erected in Germany. The Prenzlauer Berg water tower in Berlin, completed in 1877, contained apartments for the tower's machine workers. Even the first version of Lübeck Wasserkunst from 1867 had several apartments for employees in the base. The Bremerhaven-Wulsdorfer Tower was built in Bremerhaven in 1927 . Based on his model, the small Preetz Tower was built in 1929 in Preetz, East Holstein, with only one apartment per floor. Another residential water tower is the Großheide water tower high-rise in Mönchengladbach. It emerged from a bunker on which a water tank was first placed and which was then converted with 48 apartments.
The Otto Moericke Tower in Constance, which is used as a water tower and youth hostel, has a similar use .
But there were towers with other additional uses. The Blumenthal water tower in Bremen-Blumenthal contained a bathing establishment and then a kindergarten in its wing buildings. In addition, many water towers were subsequently converted for residential purposes after their water storage function was lost, for example in Netherne-on-the-Hill near London .
The Schanzenturm water tower in Hamburg , which had previously been the largest in Europe since 1910 (and probably also the largest in the world) , was converted into a hotel with 226 rooms between 2005 and 2007.
literature
- Bernhard Becher et al .: The architecture of the mining and water towers. Prestel Verlag , Munich, 1971, ISBN 3-7913-0323-6
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Prenzlauer Berg water tower in Berlin with workers' apartments
Water tower converted into a residential tower in Netherne-on-the-Hill
Schanzenturm converted into a hotel in Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Residential water tower in Wulsdorf on the website of the city of Bremerhaven . Accessed January 30, 2020.
- ↑ Dietrich Neumann: The skyscrapers are coming! Vieweg-Verlag , Wiesbaden and Braunschweig, 1995, ISBN 3-528-08815-X , pp. 144 and 170 (retrieved from Google Books on January 31, 2020).