The intermediate pumping station on Landsberger Allee was built in 1889-1893, under the direction of the director of the Berlin waterworks Henry Gill, designed and built by city and government architect
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Tour stop 14
Lichtenberg intermediate pump station
The pump station was built between 1889 and 1893 under the direction of the director of the Berlin waterworks, Henry Gill, and designed and built by city and government architect Richard Schultze.
In 1889, the Berlin municipal authorities acquired an area of around 100,000 m² at what is now Landsberger Allee 230. The first buildings on the site were four machine houses (also known as "Schöpfmaschinenhäuser"), labeled with the letters A, B, C and D, which were built between 1889 and 1893 according to plans by Richard Schultze and Henry Gill. The architects had consulted hygiene specialist Robert Koch because the aim was to provide the cleanest possible drinking water. Each powerhouse included huge pure water pumps, a boiler and coal area as well as a sand washing plant. Behind the power houses were suction chambers and eight clean water tanks built into the ground, each holding 9000 m³ of water.
The facilities and buildings of the intermediate pumping station have been extended, rebuilt and modernized several times since then and are still used to supply drinking water in Lichtenberg today.
Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenpumpwerk_Lichtenberg
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