Description • In 2001 power plant was shut down as price for natural gas grew so much, that operation was inecconomic. On April 24th, 2004 the chimney was demolished by explosives, which were fixed at ground level, at a height of 63.5 m and at a height of 91 m. The airblast of the collapsing chimney threw a metal grid of a ventilation shaft from a nearby boiler house and threw it into a switchyard, where it caused a short-circuit resulting in a blackout in some parts of Hamburg and a loss of production for some days in nearby oil refineries.
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