The former water tower of the former Conti site is today a landmark of Hanoverian industrial history. For about one and a half centuries, products made of rubber have been produced in a large factory, which opened in Continental AG in 1928. Up to 6,000 workers produced bicycle tires at this location and, in later years, car tires and many other hard and soft rubber products. And that until the year 1999. Then the plant was shut down and initially left to itself. But not too long, because a few years later, construction vehicles rolled on, which tore down the factory halls so gradually, should the area be cleared and rehabilitated for a newly developing district, the water city Limmer.
If you look around there today, you will see in the triangle between the Wunstorfer Strasse, the branch canal to the port of Linden and the leash connection canal wide, bare areas. However, some of the former redbrick factory buildings, which are listed as historical monuments, have been preserved. And not only the, but also the currently lonely and stand-alone Conti tower with its characteristic yellow cylinder, a chimney equal, he served then as a water tower. That this was once surrounded by factory buildings, is now difficult to imagine.
Source (myheimat.de)