http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/34266257.jpg

The chimney of Ljubljana Power Station seems to have a gallery, which can be an observation deck. Is it opened for tourists? When was this this chimney built and how tall is it? Was this gallery already there since the beginning?

Haha =) No turists here. =) An interesting idea, but, this is a real working power station. And it would be to dangerous for some tourists to jerk around. Besides, it's a what they call degraded area.

And what is the purpose of the gallery, which looks like an observation deck? I never saw such an object on a chimney, but on TV towers, where it is used as observation deck.
Was this gallery at the chimney since it was build or was it afterwards added? Was it perhaps shortly after erection of the power plant used as observation deck, but soon closed?

I'm almoast 100% sure this is an observation deck, but just for the maintinence people, to check the chimney out. You can see only a ladder climbs up there, so no way they would let someone go up there. The chimney itself is I think 100 metres tall, but there is another one on the other side of the city, that counts 140 metres. These are the tallest things/buildings in the city. If I'm not mistaken, the next is newly built Kristalna palača tower a few hundred metres from the chimney we're discussing.

Ok what's the deal with your 3-posts threads? LoL
Just open one and fire away with the questions.

@Struckar: the ladder you mean runs to the upmost deck of the chimney. This is in fact just for maintenance crew.
But in the middle, the chimney carries a cylinder-like cabinet with windows and at one site there is a rectangular structure attached to the chimney, which is wide enough for a staircase and an elevator or perhaps even two.
Why would you install at a chimney a cylinder-like cabinet with windows through which you can look out? Not for technical purpose. It is an observation deck!
I believe that this was open until the 1980ies for tourists, but when situation went instable in former Yugoslavia, it was closed as the danger of terrorist attacks increased.
And it remained closed until today...

I believe that this was open until the 1980ies for tourists, but when situation went instable in former Yugoslavia, it was closed as the danger of terrorist attacks increased.
And it remained closed until today...

You're joking, right? :lol:

:lol: From 1983 to 2001 I lived in a flat with the kitchen looking directly at this chimney and I never saw any tourists there. I even remember when they were painting it from brown in early 1990s.

Anyway, I think that's the command room:

http://www.te-tol.si/images/iman/te-tol.zunanje015.jpg

http://www.te-tol.si/images/iman/te-tol.notranjost036.jpg

And it actually used to be without it:

http://www.te-tol.si/images/iman/toplarna4.jpg

http://www.te-tol.si/images/iman/toplarna.jpg

http://www.te-tol.si/en/

I do not believe that the gallery on the chimney is the command room. The photograph shows that the commando room has no windows. But the gallery has!

I contacted the power station and got the answer for the purpose of the gallery: it contains equipment for emission measuring.

Which actually is the command/measuring room. The measuring room actually has windows, but some are blocked of by those thingies. =)

I believe the control room is in the basement. Does someone know when the measurement room was added to the chimney?
When was the power station painted in such colorful way? I saw some pictures that even the locomotives, which belong to the power plant are painted colorfully!

They painted it like that in early 1990s. At first it looked like that (a bit Croatian), but later they replaced the red-white chessboard with red and white lines.

http://www.dnevnik.si/uploads/image_cache/efd52782ae1932b0593e64e5991d63ea.jpeg
http://www.dnevnik.si/uploads/image_cache/efd52782ae1932b0593e64e5991d63ea.jpeg

Interestingly a waste incinerator in Taiwan has a revolving restaurant on a chimney. See http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7543 !