Belgium Nieuwe Watertoren
Description
Neo-Gothic water tower built in 1900 to a design by city engineer Auguste Verraert (Ostend) and executed by contractor H. Callebert on the edge of Maria-Hendrika Park.
History . Third water tower of Ostend. First water tower of 12 meters in the Leopold Park; replaced in 1895 by a 40-metre high metal water tower in Maria-Hendrika Park, built by Paris, which collapsed four years later.
Round brick tower of five storeys on a bluestone plinth, finished with crenellated parapet and cut buttresses. The tower is 49.80 m high and equipped with an iron hanging bottom tub of 700 m³. Then for the first time in Ostend the import of potable water from the river Bocq in the vicinity of Modave. In 1923 water distribution network via the water tower (see inscription facing brick). In 1925, two reservoirs were built at the foot of the water tower to collect reserve water. After the construction of the new water tower in the Maria-Hendrikapark (1959) no longer in use.
Surrounded by recovered sculpture from demolished buildings: two natural stone caryatids by sculptor Hendrik Pickery (Bruges, signed), from "Villa Doris", a dike house from 1879 on the Albert I-Promenade that was demolished after the Second World War and placed there in 1989 (year on pedestal); brick wall with natural stone coat of arms of Ostend, from a former postal building (see Ostend, Hendrik Serruyslaan).
Department of Spatial Planning, Housing and Monuments and Landscape West Flanders, Cell Monuments and Landscapes, Archive numbers DW000336 and W/00473.
DREESEN JB, Industrial Archaeology. The "Oede" Water Tower, in De Plate , jg. 5, 1975-1976, no. 5, p. 9-10.
DREESEN JB, Remarkable buildings in Ostend. A destination for the old water tower, in De Plate , jg. 9, 1980, p. 165-167.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 4, 1992, p. 92-97.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 5, 1993, p. 4-5, 60, 89-94, 128-131.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 6, 1994, p. 3-8.
Source : Callaert G., Delepiere A.-M., Hooft E., Kerrinckx H. & Vanneste P. with the collaboration of Santy P. & Snauwaert L. 2005: Inventory of the architectural heritage, Province of West Flanders, Municipality of Ostend, Part IA: City of Ostend, Streets AM, Part IB: City of Ostend, Streets NZ and districts Haven, Hazegras, Opex, Part II: Sub-municipalities of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, Building through the ages in Flanders WVL6, (unpublished working documents) .
Authors : Callaert, Gonda, Delepiere, Anne Marie, Hooft, Elise, Kerrinckx, Hans
Date :2005
https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/77744
Neo-Gothic water tower built in 1900 to a design by city engineer Auguste Verraert (Ostend) and executed by contractor H. Callebert on the edge of Maria-Hendrika Park.
History . Third water tower of Ostend. First water tower of 12 meters in the Leopold Park; replaced in 1895 by a 40-metre high metal water tower in Maria-Hendrika Park, built by Paris, which collapsed four years later.
Round brick tower of five storeys on a bluestone plinth, finished with crenellated parapet and cut buttresses. The tower is 49.80 m high and equipped with an iron hanging bottom tub of 700 m³. Then for the first time in Ostend the import of potable water from the river Bocq in the vicinity of Modave. In 1923 water distribution network via the water tower (see inscription facing brick). In 1925, two reservoirs were built at the foot of the water tower to collect reserve water. After the construction of the new water tower in the Maria-Hendrikapark (1959) no longer in use.
Surrounded by recovered sculpture from demolished buildings: two natural stone caryatids by sculptor Hendrik Pickery (Bruges, signed), from "Villa Doris", a dike house from 1879 on the Albert I-Promenade that was demolished after the Second World War and placed there in 1989 (year on pedestal); brick wall with natural stone coat of arms of Ostend, from a former postal building (see Ostend, Hendrik Serruyslaan).
Department of Spatial Planning, Housing and Monuments and Landscape West Flanders, Cell Monuments and Landscapes, Archive numbers DW000336 and W/00473.
DREESEN JB, Industrial Archaeology. The "Oede" Water Tower, in De Plate , jg. 5, 1975-1976, no. 5, p. 9-10.
DREESEN JB, Remarkable buildings in Ostend. A destination for the old water tower, in De Plate , jg. 9, 1980, p. 165-167.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 4, 1992, p. 92-97.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 5, 1993, p. 4-5, 60, 89-94, 128-131.
VALCKE L., From "Woaterhuus" to "Watertorre". Drinking water perils in Ostend from the 19th century, in Gidsenblad Lange Nelle , jg. 6, 1994, p. 3-8.
Source : Callaert G., Delepiere A.-M., Hooft E., Kerrinckx H. & Vanneste P. with the collaboration of Santy P. & Snauwaert L. 2005: Inventory of the architectural heritage, Province of West Flanders, Municipality of Ostend, Part IA: City of Ostend, Streets AM, Part IB: City of Ostend, Streets NZ and districts Haven, Hazegras, Opex, Part II: Sub-municipalities of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, Building through the ages in Flanders WVL6, (unpublished working documents) .
Authors : Callaert, Gonda, Delepiere, Anne Marie, Hooft, Elise, Kerrinckx, Hans
Date :2005
https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/77744
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