A bath cooled superconducting solenoid with a 280 mm in diameter warm bore, a coil length of 1200 mm and a central field of 5 T at the rated current of 950 A, was built at Ansaldo ABB Componenti. It will operate as compensating coil inside the Zeus Detector at HERA, Desy. The coil is shielded by a 3.5 tons low carbon steel cold yoke and the cold helium chamber was designed to withstand a max pressure of 20 bar. The main results obtained during the cool down and energization are reported.