Kaltehofe Waterworks, Hamburg

Former slow sand filtration plant for Hamburg's drinking water on the Elbe island of Kaltehofe, Germany. Conceived by Franz Andreas Meyer, the planner of the Speicherstadt, it went into operation in May 1893 after the cholera epidemic of 1892 showed the need for filtered water. The waterworks closed in 1990; its former filter basins are now part of an industrial monument, museum and park known as Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe.

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