After the Unused time, the Monument is used as communication facility with Antenna Tower and Mobile Telephone Devices atop.
Spire
283 ft
''
The former Height as Gas Compartment
Roof edge
239 ft
''
Disc reach hub
214 ft
''
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Description - The biggest gas tank is the far visible " small brother " in the city of Upper House of standing gas tank.
- The disc gas tank in Augsburg is the last which is still received in Bavaria and completely "built", has at ground level a big storeroom under the real container.
- Construction company: MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg) Werk Gustavsburg
- Compartment Volume: 100.000 m³
- Side Panels ("Fields"): 20
- Side Lenght (each "Field"): 7,0 m
- Circumference: (20 Field x 7,0 m) 140m
- Consisting of 1800 riveted coat tins 810 mm of high(20 pieces per floor "Fields" x 90 pieces in high "Shots")
- 204000 rivets (approx. 6 million rivet beating) and 24.5 km of welds hold together the container.
- Approx. 70000 working hours were required for the construction, about 60 persons were occupied by the construction.
- There are 4 ambulatories (In each case with 21, 41, 61 and 81 "shots") around the outside lift a stair with 392 steps.
- Also an inside lift exists to the Sealing disc. Weight of the Sealing Disc (completely with Sealing oil, however, without concrete weights): 219 tons
- Weight of the Sealing Disc (incl. piece in 1820 (concrete) of weights): 356 tons
- The gas tank had a nearly steady "working pressure" of 23 mbar.
- The last complete protective painting: 1974
- The last disc control in company was on 30.3.2001.
It was up to 2001 (47 years) in service.
- At night a total of 7 red air-traffic warning lights (11 watts of energy savings lamps) are to be seen. Actually quite astonishingly how far it is possible to be seen 11 watts of lamp at night.
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