Description Lignite-fired power plant, from which the first part was built from 1937 to 1940. The installed equipment was dismantled from the Soviet occupants between 1945 and 1947.
From 1953 to 1959 new equipment was installed in the existing buildings and the second part of the power plant was erected. The power plant started on October 10th, 1954 again with the production of electricity.
After its completion in 1959, it was with its four large chimneys a characteristic landmark.
On July 22, 1960 an Ilyushin Il-14 plane of the GDR armed forces flying through dense fog scratched one of the chimneys and crashed. Seven people on board the plane and a worker on the ground were killed.
In 1968 the power plant started to deliver heat to Dessau over a distance of 15 kilometres and from 1972 to 1974 greenhouses were erected in its neighbourhood, which were heated by its waste heat.
The use of the greenhouses was stopped in 1991. In 1994 Vockerode Power Plant was shut-down and in 1997 the greenhouses were demolished.
The four characteristic chimneys of the power plant were demolished on September 22nd, 2001. The building of the power station is still standing, but unused.
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