Architektura wież wodnych województwa katowickiego

• Authors: Gryglewska Agnieszka

Title variants

EN

THE ARCHITECTURE OF WATERTOWERS IN THE KATOWICE VOIVODSHIP

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The tower occupies an important place in the history of architecture. The impact of its form in space thanks to its vertical nature and height was always significant and its attraction influenced human emotions. In the second half of the nineteenth century there appeared water towers on the plains of Northern Europe as a central object of each waterworks net. The watertowers in the Katowice voivodship constitute a varied and extensive complex of technological monuments. They date from the 1894-1935 period and provide a review of the trends in art from that time. The dominating forms tend to historicise, while the accompanying exellent examples of modernism and Sezession contain all the features of Silesian architecture. The innovative construction of the buildings and containers, the careful approach to architectonic detail and the high standard of the construction deserve closer attention. The towers in Gliwice were built in the style of brick Gothic, extremely popular in German monumental architecture during the second half of the nineteenth century. The tower on Poniatowski Street in Gliwice, together with a reservoir of a similar, Gothic architectonic detail constitutes a unique complex of objects connected with the municipal waterworks. A series of towers embellished with detail taken from medieval fortifications was planned by Georg and Emil Zillman from Berlin-Charlottenburg for the Georg von Gisches Erben company. They were erected in the years 1907-1913 in the Giszowiec, Borki (Korczak Street) and Szopienice (I Complex of the Non-ferrous Metal Works Szopienice) districts.. The towers are among the oldest in Silesia, with a reinforced concrete construction. The towers in Świętochłowice and Chorzow can be included among the off-shoot of the Sezession style, with a monumental, „Teutonic" form. The reduced historical forms of the watertowers - classical or medievaloccur almost up to the second world war. A characteristic, uniform group is composed of small towers with a historicised architectonic form known as the „Baltic lowlands style" and in the shape of a chalice. They include the towers in Katowice- Brynow, and the railway towers in Kochłowice, Chebzie, Szopienice and Gliwice. The tower in Zabrze, one of the largest in Upper Silesia, refers to the Gothic structure. An example of a modernistic approach to the historical legacy is the watertower in Ruda Śląska-Nowy Bytom, whose reduced classicistic forms bring to mind the realizations of M. Berg and H. Polzig. The expressionist current, which combines dynamic form with the features of traditional German architecture, includes towers in Toszek and Ostrop. An example of functionalism in architecture are the towers in Bytom and Stolarzowice. The construction solution applied in the tower in Bytom - a joint connection of the framework of the tower with the foundation - is exceptionally interesting. In contrast to historical sacral and lay objects, technological monuments have not attracted much attention in the past. Silesian towers in Chebzie, Łagiewniki and Chropaczow have not survived - they were eliminated from exploitation in the inter-war period and the 1960s, following changes in the water supply to the region. The only method of preserving extant examples is their active protection by making them a part of contemporary life, and discovering a new function which will guarantee means and motives for their maintenance.

Keywords

PL

wieże wodne; sieć wodociągowa; architektura przemysłowa; wieża ciśnień; wieże kominowo-wodne

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1992
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 48-58

Dates

published

1992

Contributors

author

Gryglewska Agnieszka

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ISSN

0029-8247