Wasserwerk Misburg
Wasserwerk Misburg stands in the Misburger Wald on the outskirts of Hanover, as a protected monument from the city’s industrial past. The former waterworks combines cubic brick buildings with a residential structure and an archway.
Architect Friedrich Fischer shaped the ensemble with modern forms and North German brick traditions influenced by Fritz Höger. Flat-roofed technical buildings contrast with the more traditional residential building beside them. Filtration and pumping equipment once processed water from the forest and sent it to Misburg’s water tower on Hartmannstraße. Otto Geißler supervised the engineering and execution, then organised a student excursion there in 1932. Operations ended in 1971, while the associated tower disappeared in 1980.
Triangular buttresses and narrow, tall windows give the technical buildings a rhythm shared with Hanover’s expressionist architecture. Filter basins remained among the surviving operational elements when the unused complex stood in the mid-1980s.
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