Monuments of water management - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1986 - 50 Pfennig

Monuments of the Water Economy The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes four multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of monuments of the water industry. Special cancellations from January 21 to March 20, 1986 Monuments of the water industry 50-pfennig value: Wasserwerk Berlin-Friedrichshagen, 1893 On October 28, 1893, the "Müggelsee plant" in Berlin-Friedrichshagen was the largest and most modern waterworks in Europe with a daily capacity of 172,000 cubic meters in operation. With the intermediate pumping station Lichtenberg in today's Leninallee it forms a technological unit. Following English industrial brick Gothic, the buildings were executed in Mark neogothic. The client was the then English director Henry Gill. The drinking water was extracted via deep wells from groundwater and surface waters of the Müggelsee. The Schöpfmaschinenhäuser A, B and C were equipped with three double-acting, standing composite steam engines of 130 hp each by the Berlin company Borsig. 1979, the steam operation was stopped in the course of the reconstruction and expansion of the waterworks Friedrichshagen. Since then, the old facilities, including the collecting well and the former director's residence, have stood as important historical witnesses of the water supply under the central preservation order of the GDR. Using all existing original machines and technical equipment, a museum of water management will be set up in the Schöpfmaschinenhaus B - the nucleus of the interesting complex of monuments.