The water company Friedrichshagen was taken 1893 in Berlin Friedrichshagen in enterprise. It was the third urban water company of Berlin after that 1856 at the Stralauer gate to the Spree and 1877 in Berlin Tegel at the Tegeler lake established works and was considered at that time as largest and the most modern to its kind in Europe. At that time exclusively from of the drinking water was won. The daily capacity amounted to 86,400 m Oberfl¤chenwasser.

With the start-up of this work the water company at the Stralauer gate could stop its enterprise in the year 1894.

With altogether six turbine houses, 34 slow sand filters, four scrubbers, numerous auxiliary buildings and four houses the water company, which expands on an area of 55 hectars, is today a certification of industrial history and a surface monument of European rank. As particularly worth seeing the machinery building with the machines from that is considered to 19. Century.

History

The establishment of this water company and the two predecessors is based on in the year 1852 the contract final between the Prussian state government and the English entrepreneurs Sir Charles Fox and Thomas Rushell Crampton flowing over the supply of Berlin with water - at that time still by into London the residents "Berlin Water Works company". Already before expiration of the present Treaty in the year 1881, after the shares should be transferred to the current estimated price to Berlin, the city Berlin acquired in the year 1873 the shares for altogether 1.25 million Pound of Sterling and with 2 January 1874 occurred the city Berlin under the mayor main header right the administration of the now urban water companies.

The drafts for the factory buildings come from engineer Henry Gill, that formerly operations director of the English society and now director of the urban water companies were and from the architect Richard school TZE. The fronts of the buildings were implemented with bricks.

In the period of 1904 to 1909 the water company was converted for the production and dressing by groundwater. In particular originates from this time in the years 1991-1995 the restored Sammelbrunnen. From 1925 to 1927 a partial modernization took place, in whose consequence parts of the water company were electrically operated. In addition the daily capacity increased to 320.000 m prepared water.

In the year 1979 first and established in the year 1983 second high-speedfilter-resounds. Likewise in the year 1983 the steam engine enterprise was stopped. Since 1991 the withdrawal is adjusted by and it groundwater is only promoted.

In the year 2005 the water company promotes still 220,000 m water per day. For this serve altogether 170 vertical wells, which are deep in each case 30 to 40 m and are in each case promoted from those by submersible pumps 40 to 200 m water per hour.

Museum in the water company

Since 1987 carried museum is for the history of the work in the water company of the citizen of Berlin water enterprises. It is in the machinery building of the water company, which went to 1893 into enterprise. It was at that time third in Berlin and simultaneous the largest and belonged to the technical master achievements. It scooped at that time the water from the and prepared it as drinking water.

The entire ensemble at the is established in the gothical brick style. Since 1987, to the 750-Jahrfeier in Berlin, accessible made, the museum is worth an attendance to the public in the water company not only for technology-interested. On that 7,000 m large areas are beside the technical exhibits of the water supply also residential building, which is used today still as such. The water company still supplies the citizens of Berlin of districts with drinking water, however this is drawn today from groundwater and does not come any longer from the

Beside the constant exhibition and the regular special exhibitions the museum for further cultural meetings is used. Thus concerts take place since the establishment of the museum 1987 in the machinery building one of the former drawing turbine houses into regular distances, which are particularly popular by the outstanding acoustics and the own atmosphere of the neogotischen industrial building.

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• Website of the museum in the water company
• Website of the citizens of Berlin of water enterprises to the museum
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