Penstocks and pylons of a hydroelectric station, 1937
Great riveted pipes run down a wooded mountainside to a long turbine hall, and lattice gantries of a switchyard stand against the peaks.
A bundle of massive riveted steel pipes descends a wooded slope beneath high-voltage lines, emerges from a concrete anchor block and runs beside a long hall with tall windows. Above a large building with a steep tiled roof, steel lattice gantries strung with insulators stand in a row at the foot of forested limestone mountains, their arched ironwork sharp against the clouds.
The archive record notes only huge pipelines, pylons and industrial installations. The plant resembles the Walchensee power station at Kochel, which Oskar von Miller, founder of the Deutsches Museum, built in the 1920s to carry Alpine water power into the Bavarian grid; the regime made such works emblems of German engineering.
