Reuter Power Plant Smoke Rises Beyond Berlin’s Olympiastadion
Taken September 2017
The Olympiastadion was built for the 1936 Summer Olympics and designed by architect Werner March, replacing an earlier stadium on the same grounds. A 2004 renovation gave the structure a translucent roof and reduced capacity to roughly 74,000 seats; it now serves as the home ground of Hertha BSC and hosts the annual DFB-Pokal final. Behind it, the Reuter West plant generates combined heat and power for western Berlin, operated by Vattenfall on a site in Siemensstadt first developed with the original Kraftwerk Reuter in 1931. Reuter West itself was built in stages between 1987 and 1990 to supply district heating alongside electricity, a dual role reflected in the plant's cooling tower and chimney stack.
Taken September 2017
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