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The 14-metre-high windpump was built by the well builder and farmer Peter Wolfmaier with the help of a locksmith in 1926 to provide running water for the property. The rotor was available as a construction kit from the company Aufschläger in Simbach; the lower part of the system was home-made and consists of standard construction steel.
The 14-metre-high windpump was built by the well builder and farmer Peter Wolfmaier with the help of a locksmith in 1926 to provide running water for the property. The rotor was available as a construction kit from the company Aufschläger in Simbach; the lower part of the system was home-made and consists of standard construction steel.

64b Windpump from Garching an der Alz

District: Altötting
Municipality: Garching an der Alz
Year of Construction: 1926
Type of Building: technical constructions

Presentation time: ca. 1985 

The 14-metre-high windpump was built by the well builder and farmer Peter Wolfmaier with the help of a locksmith in 1926 to provide running water for the property. The rotor was available as a construction kit from the company Aufschläger in Simbach; the lower part of the system was home-made and consists of standard construction steel.

The windpump pumped water from a 26-metre-deep well and into a reservoir. It was decommissioned in the late 1950s, but Paul Dirksen, the builder’s grandson, renovated and reactivated the windpump in 1984 and bedecked it with an advert for his office machine business. The structure was destroyed by a winter storm only two years later. The component parts of the rotor were placed into storage.