It is unfortunately not many indications of this imposing building in the literature or on the Internet. However, I have discovered the following contemporary description:
In dignified and impressive form of Upper Silesian s on the East Germans exhibition for industry, commerce and agriculture damage f t represented in 1911 in Poznan.
already greets you from the web of his exhibits, the door m, with the powerful outlines, the flashing copper roof over and directs Tues e looks and probably questions of passengers by themselves. He is also a good guide r to all However, barely five minutes from the train station, exhibition grounds are located.
Powerful but still acts as the external form d as the interior of the huge, colorful joyful dome structure.
on an area that forms a Sechszehneck of 58 m in diameter, rises the tower to a height of 52 m terrain. The lower chamber has a floor area of 2642 sqm. The gallery, located at a height of 9 m and by two broad, convenient access stairs, has a floor area of 1280 square meters.
is in height of 23 meters a Innenum gang around the tower, which is connected by a bridge to the spiral staircase that ufzugschacht to the A to the tower-restaurant has. This 34 m above ground gel eGene restaurant is 30 m outer diameter and provides 600 people acceptable to stay. The electronic other electrical elevator holds 10 people and leads from the ground into the restaurant. From this one can reach on a more comfortable iron staircase, which is provided as a fire escape s, directly into the open. For the construction of about 1,500 tons of iron were supplied by the Upper Silesian works.
Rarely had an exhibition of such a en construction available.
The Upper Silesian tower is therefore also drenched exhibition visitors impress assets. For the Upper Silesia industrial but this tower is not only a momentary success, but it becomes a permanent NDES Wah rzeichen the power picture capability of the Upper Silesian industry, as from the issuance of the restaurant by a water basin of 4000 cbm contents replaced is to serve practical functions : to be a water tower and a covered market for poses.
It would have been [probably otherwise] impossible to build this, estimated at over half a million building only for a relatively short duration of the exhibition to . The fact that the burgeoning city sen Po in the near future a new water tower and a covered market needs, suggested the idea to host the Upper Silesian display in a separate room, and this could make so that he later said nut purposes be zbar.
The solution to this problem is the director of the Royal Academy of Wroclaw for arts and crafts, Professor Hans Poelzig, like the tower shows succeeded in brilliantly.
Although only 15 September 1910, the groundbreaking was done could, on 10 February 1911 to celebrate the topping. But this landmark of Upper Silesia in Poznan has long been a thing of the past, it should not be forgotten be.
refers Unfortunately, on the further fate of the tower, nothing on the web. But I assume that the tower on the 2nd World War was destroyed.
source including "Hans Poelzig and the" modern industrial building, "Industrial Buildings 1906-1934, Volume I
by Hans-Stefan Bolz, Siegburg" on http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/2008/ 1615 /
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