# Wasserkraftwerk Wolfzahnau

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Wasserkraftwerk Wolfzahnau stands at the northern tip of Augsburg’s Wolfzahnau nature reserve, where the Lech and Wertach meet. The 1901 hydroelectric plant is the largest facility in Augsburg’s canal system and forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Augsburg Water Management System. Yellow and red exposed brick, pilaster strips, round-arched windows, and a tower-like transformer house give the protected complex its distinctive appearance.

Water from the Vereinigter Stadt- und Proviantbach reaches the turbines through a straight canal dug in 1900, which can carry up to 35,000 litres per second. The facility began as the region’s second hydroelectric plant and supplied electricity to a cotton spinning mill before later serving Christian Dierig. Three Kaplan turbines replaced the original Francis turbines in 1969, and the plant now has a capacity of 1,800 kilowatts, producing about 15 million kilowatt-hours each year for Augsburg.

A four-metre-high flywheel, once shown at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair, remains one of the site’s memorable technical details. A working flood-machine set from 1913 also survives, while nearby paths through Wolfzahnau offer walks and cycle rides beside the waterways.

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