Gasbehälter Gaswerk I
Gasbehälter Gaswerk I stands in Leipzig as a circular industrial building from the city’s early gas infrastructure. Its yellow clinker-brick walls form a sixty-metre-wide shell, rising about twenty-eight metres without the original dome.
Georg Wunder supervised its construction around 1890 for Leipzig’s first municipal gasworks. Inside, a bell-shaped metal holder rose and fell as stored gas entered or left the city network. That movement helped maintain steady pressure while demand changed between street lighting, hotels, restaurants and private homes. The surrounding masonry also insulated the water-filled mechanism against freezing during Leipzig’s cold weather. Gas production ended here in 1929, but the structure survived after the site became an electricity and district-heating plant.
The roof and windows have disappeared, leaving the exposed shell as a technical monument. Its original Schwendler dome and inner machinery once supported a storage volume of about 41,000 cubic metres. Restoration and environmental work in the early 2000s helped preserve this rare reminder of Leipzig’s industrial development.
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