Silo Tower Basel

The silo tower ( Bernoullisilo ) is in the Basel neighborhood Kleinhueningen overlooking the harbor one of the local Rhine harbor. He has, in addition to its properties as a grain silo, a viewing platform from which one has a good overview of the city harbor Kleinhueningen and the surrounding area including France and Germany. The 105 silos and 20 bulk soils have put together a volume of about 14,200 m3, which totals nearly 11,000 tons of cereals such as oats, wheat, soybeans, barley and rye. Operator is the Rhenus Port Logistics.

History

The now under preservation silo was built in 1923 by architect Hans Bernoulli with the engineer Oskar Bosshardt for the Swiss shipping company and put into operation in 1926. This Cement Silo with brick cladding was the first grain elevator in Kleinhüningen harbor and is characterized by its blind arch order of high architectural quality. The brick shell serves both the insulation and the aesthetics and reflects the spirit of the times, to utilitarian buildings surrounded by a historicist envelope. Bernoulli was inspired when uttering this silo construction of the Hamburg Speicherstadt.

1926 opened the first inland exhibition the viewing platform, which was made ​​available on a temporary created outdoor lift. During the Second World War, this served as a pilot observation post for the Swiss Army and the operating air defense of the harbor. Later, an internal lift has been installed, its mechanism is located in the tower above the platform.

After more than 80 years, the terrace of the Siloturmes threatened to collapse and was renovated in 2006, together with the equally dilapidated gangway to the silo 3 on Port Street.

View

The observation deck is accessible via port management, which are offered by the port authorities. The population is open to the terrace but also, inter alia, during the various activities being performed therein occasions such as the open-air cinema in the summer.

From the platform, which is located in 45m height, one has a view of the harbor scene, the Rhine, the city of Basel and to the Sundgauer hill country and the chain of the Blue. Not far from the silo building is the symbolic triangle, so you overlook from the terrace three countries ( Switzerland, Germany, France). It should be noted here is true that the border between Switzerland and France showing in this area in the Rhine and the effective triangle is thus located in the Rhine, just south of the three land bridge.

Not far from the Bernoulli silo and its terrace is the Maritime Museum transport hub Switzerland and our way to the sea.