Vodárenská Věž Louny

Prijemna prochazka. Dobry relax. Nice view ?

Louny dominanta. Great view of the surroundings.

Nice landmark over the city on the hiking and walking path

Put into operation and to the public for use in 1936. Today, the water tower no longer serves its original purpose. Rising water consumption during the development of Louny during the First Republic forced the city to try to drill other springs, for example, in 1925 a strong current erupted from a 40-meter artesian well by the river to a height of three meters. However, a strongly ferrous source clogged the pipes, and neither this nor other attempts provided enough quality water anyway. In the early 1930s, therefore, the city had to start building a completely new water system. Among the seven offers, the project of the Prague company Ing. Vladimír Chmelík, who proposed the construction of a new water supply system and a groundwater reservoir with a capacity of 400 m3, drawing water from nine wells on the banks of the Ohře. The system was completed by a 36-meter-high water tower with a tank for 100 m3 of water, which has been in operation since 21 June 1936 (ceremonial opening) and was pumped into water from groundwater reservoirs. Water flowed from the reservoir directly into the distribution network, the construction of a new water supply system cost CZK 3 million. This distinctive landmark on the hill, once called Balasy, is not only an interesting example of contemporary technical ingenuity, but also a quality representative of functionalist architecture focused on practicality and sobriety. The construction work was provided by the Louny builder František Hieke and the machinery was supplied by the company Českomoravská - Kolben - Daněk. This water was enough for the inhabitants of the town until 1948, when it was decided to build both a new waterworks and a new water supply system. The slim tube of the tower reservoir with a square floor plan has a reinforced concrete structure. The supporting pillars of the reservoir stem are highlighted in color and protrude outside the wall. Each shaft wall carries rectangular rectangular windows placed one above the other. The square shell of the reservoir is smooth, in the upper part it is widened. The construction ends with a roof with a view, a railing and a large number of antennas. The whole building is smoothly plastered. Along the inner walls of the reservoir stem, a concrete segmental staircase rises to the reservoir. The floor under the reservoir is reinforced with beams, in the middle of the reservoir there is a circular communication shaft. At present, the tower reservoir is already out of operation and serves several companies as a signal transmitter or amplifier (mobile phone, television). As a dominant feature of the southern edge of the city is illuminated. At the same time, there is a project to use the reservoir as a lookout tower in the form of outdoor ramps on the highest floors of the tower. The way up should end at the top with a viewing console. The last arm of the spiral will face the main view (Krušné hory and České středohoří) on the longer side and will thus offer enough space for more visitors, even with its small width. There will be panoramic maps at the top of the view. The implementation of the project is a question of the future. The estimated costs are almost nine million crowns.

The water tower itself is an interesting architectural building of 30 years of the last century. Nice view of the Czech Central Mountains.

Really nice views of Louny and the Central Mountains.

Access to the top of the tower is limited. In addition, he has to climb a ladder at the very top. We visited the tower as part of a tour through geocaching. There is a really big view. The tower has not functioned as a waterworks for many years. Now it is used mainly for transmitters of mobile operators.