List of water towers in Berlin

The list shows the water towers in Berlin described in Wikipedia and other comparable buildings. It contains both former and disused water towers as well as those that are still in operation.

Literature and web links can be found in the main articles on the individual buildings.

City supply

Surname	Location	District	Construction year	architect	height	Reservoir volume	Remarks	photo
Prenzlauer Berg water tower	Knaackstrasse 23 ( location )	Prenzlauer Berg	1875-1877	Henry Gill	44 m	1035 m³ from 1907: 835 m³	Monument protection
Lichterfelde water tower	Potsdamer Strasse 4/5	Lichterfelde	1877-1878				Demolished in 1972
Water tower Charlottenburg I	Akazienallee 35–39 ( location )	West end	1881	B. Salbach	27 m	1000 m³	Monument protection
Fichtenberg water tower	Schmidt-Ott-Strasse 13 ( location )	Steglitz	1885-1886	Otto Techow	40 m	2,000 m³	Monument protection
Tempelhofer Berg water tower	Kopischstr. 7 / fidicinstr. 37 ( location )	Kreuzberg	1887-1888	Hugo Hartung and Richard Schultze	44 m	406 m³	Monument protection
Lichtenberg water tower	Ruschestrasse	Lichtenberg	1892	Otto Smreker		500 m³	Demolished in 1925
Pankow water tower	Thulestrasse 24	Pankow	1893	Otto Smreker		525 m³	Raised by 4.2 m in 1927, demolished in 1959
Neukölln water tower	Leykestraße 13-14 ( location )	Neukölln	1893-1894	Hinze	40 m	2500 m³	Monument protection
Spandau I water tower	Birkenstrasse 13-18	Spandau	1896-1897		48 m	700 m³	Decommissioned in 1911, demolished in 1936
Water tower on the Obersee	Waldowstrasse 20 ( location )	Old Hohenschönhausen	1899-1900	Otto Intze	34.5 m	400 m³	Monument protection
Reinickendorf water tower	Hausotterberg Reginhardstraße (then Saßnitzstraße) 144/148 ( location )	Reinickendorf	1901	Otto Smreker	48 m	1000 m³	Demolished in 1933
Altglienicke water tower	Schirnerstrasse 17/19 ( location )	Altglienicke	1905-1906	Heinrich Scheven	46 m	600 m³	Monument protection
Rosenthal water tower	Hauptstrasse 92	Rosenthal	1907	Emil Prinz	38 m	500 m³	Demolished in 1963
Hermsdorf water tower	Frohnauer Strasse 112–122 ( location )	Frohnau	1908-1909	Carl Francke	25 m	500 m³	Monument protection
Charlottenburg II water tower	Akazienallee 35–39 ( location )	West end	1909-1910	Heinrich Seeling	60 m	2 × 500 m³	Monument protection
Heinersdorf water tower	Berliner Strasse 66 ( location )	Heinersdorf	1910-1911	Emil Prinz	60 m	670 m³	Monument protection
Spandau II water tower	Flower Street	Spandau	1910-1911		65 m	1500 m³	Demolished in 1932
Wuhlheide water tower	At the Wuhlheide 189	Oberschöneweide	1911-1913		45 m	286 m³ (pure water) 738 m³ (filter rinsing water)	about 2/3 removed
Steglitz water tower	Bergstrasse 34-38 ( location )	Steglitz	1916	Hans Heinrich Müller	40 m	2000 m³	Monument protection

railroad

Surname	Location	District	Construction year	architect	height	Reservoir volume	Remarks	photo
Ostbahnhof water tower	Mühlenstrasse 33A ( location )	Friedrichshain	1881
Water tower of the Niederöneweide locomotive treatment facility	( Location )	Niederschöneweide	1888				in operation until 1929 - since demolished
Moabit freight station water tower (in the Mwt signal box )	( Location )	Moabit	1892-1893	Karl Cornelius			Monument protection
Water tower workshop in Lichtenberg		Lichtenberg	1894				Demolished in 1980
Water tower marshalling yard Niederschöneweide	( Location )	Niederschöneweide	1906
Anhalter Güterbahnhof water tower	Trebbiner Str. 8 ( location )	Kreuzberg	1908		34.6 m	300 m³	Part of the DTMB
Water tower Anhalter Güterbahnhof II	Near the monument bridge at the reserve engine shed	Kreuzberg	1908				not received
Water tower Hafenplatz		Kreuzberg	1909		43 m	300 m³	not received
Casino tower Frohnau	Ludolfingerplatz 1–3 ( location )	Frohnau	1909-1910	Gustav Hart , Alfred Lesser	30 m	49 m³	Monument protection
Ostkreuz water tower	Main street 2 ( location )	Friedrichshain	1912	Karl Cornelius	50 m	400 m³	Monument protection
Water tower Rummelsburg depot	Wallensteinstrasse 20 ( location )	Lichtenberg	1914	D. Hirsch		200 m³	Monument protection
Tempelhof water tower marshalling yard	Prellerweg 47 ( location )	Schöneberg	1927	Hugo Röttcher	50 m	400 m³	Monument protection

Hospitals

Surname	Location	District	Construction year	architect	height	Reservoir volume	Remarks	photo
Wenckebach hospital water tower	Wenckebachstr. 23 ( location )	Tempelhof	1875-1878	Gropius & Schmieden			Monument protection
Water tower sanatorium and nursing home for epileptics	Brebacher Weg 15 ( location )	Biesdorf	1893	Hermann Blankenstein	34.3 m	80 m³	Monument protection
Rudolf Virchow Hospital water tower	Augustenburger Platz 1 ( location )	Wedding	1899-1906	Ludwig Hoffmann	48.2 m	250 m³	Monument protection
Westend hospital water tower	Spandauer Damm 130 ( location )	West end	1901-1904	Heinrich Seeling			Monument protection
Water tower hospital Neukölln	Rudower Str. 56 / Juchaczweg 1 ( location )	Buckow	1907-1909	Reinhold Kiehl			Monument protection
Water tower in Buch Clinic	Am Stener Berg 60 ( location )	book	1909	Ludwig Hoffmann	43.7 m	350 m³	Monument protection

Factories

Surname	Location	District	Construction year	architect	height	Reservoir volume	Remarks	photo
Spandau slaughterhouse water tower	( Location )	Spandau	1889	Friedrich Paul	21 m	140 m³	Monument protection
Water tower gasworks Charlottenburg	( Location )	Charlottenburg	1889-1891	Paul Bratring	28 m		Monument protection
Water tower gasworks Schöneberg	( Location )	Schöneberg	1890		26.2 m	2 × 60 m³	1924 in operation until 1946, since 2007 part of the EUREF Campus'
Water tower of the Royal Powder Factory Spandau	( Location )	Haselhorst	around 1890				Monument protection
Water tower gasworks Mariendorf (old)	( Location )	Mariendorf	1900-1907	Paul Karchow	45 m	150 m³	Monument protection
AEG cable works Oberspree water tower	Ostendstrasse 1 ( location )	Oberschöneweide	1911-1912				Monument protection
Water tower gasworks Lichtenberg	( Location )	Rummelsburg	1928-1929	Gottlieb Tesch			Monument protection
Water tower gasworks Mariendorf (new)	( Location )	Mariendorf	1968-1969		47 m		Monument protection

Other facilities

Surname	Location	District	Construction year	architect	height	Reservoir volume	Remarks	photo
Water tower Plötzensee prison	( Location )	Charlottenburg-North	1868-1872			71 m³	Monument protection
Water tower trade exhibition 1896		Alt-Treptow	1896	Bruno Schmitz	60 m	350 m³	not received
Water tower botanical garden	( Location )	Lichterfelde	1909	Alfred Koerner		550 m³	Monument protection
Jungfernheide water tower	( Location )	Charlottenburg	1925	Walter Helmcke	38 m	65 m³	only for park irrigation

literature

• Berliner Städtische Wasserwerke A.-G. (Ed.): Works and water towers. Berlin 1929.
• Jens U. Schmidt: Water towers in Berlin. Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 2010, ISBN 978-3-86929-032-4 .
• Long-distance traffic (Berlin and its buildings, Part X, Volume B Systems and buildings for traffic (2)) . Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin, Verlag Erst & Sohn, Berlin 1984.
• Stefan Karner, Peter J. Wichniarz: Berlin water towers. Ernst u. Son, 1987, ISBN 3-433-02100-7 .
• Günter Kley: Berlin water towers / historical photographs and drawings . Ed .: Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Historical Articles, Issue 2, Berlin 1996
• Stadttechnik (Berlin and its buildings, part X, volume A (2)) . Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2006, ISBN 3-86568-012-7 .
• Stefan Woll: Berlin water towers. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7759-0281-3 .

Web links

Commons : Water Towers in Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Schultze: Municipal water lift for the southwest of Berlin . In: Journal of Construction . Year 38 (1888), col. 285–288, plate 41. Digital copy in the holdings of the Central and State Library in Berlin .
2. ^ Fiederling: Raising a water container in Pankow . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 47, No. 50 (December 14, 1927), pp. 660–661.
3. ↑ Saßnitzstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, p. 2235. “Right page: Water tower belongs to Amendestrasse 34/35 ← Amendestrasse → Construction sites ← Raschdorffstrasse → Arbor area ← Wilkestrasse → Left page: ← Winterstrasse → Construction sites ← Amendestrasse → Property goes to Amendestrasse 79, new buildings ← Raschdorffstraße → Laubengelände “.
4. ^ Albert Gut: New Charlottenburg Buildings by Heinrich Seeling . (PDF; 20.2 MB) In: Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 19, Issue 6 (September 1916), pp. 180, 218–223
5. ↑ Steglitz, water tower . (PDF) In: Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 21, Issue 9/10, pp. 292–293.
6. ↑ Klaus Jünnemann: The former water tower on Buchberger Strasse . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , 5/2010, p. 121.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Cornelius: Newer water towers in the railway district of Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 35, No. 44 (June 2, 1915), pp. 286–287
8. ^ Martin Kießling: Architecture, Architects and Reichsbahn . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 48, No. 44 (October 31, 1928), pp. 705–712.
9. ^ II. Garrison Lazareth for Berlin near Tempelhof, economic building . (PDF) In: Atlas der Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 1879, p. 22.
10. ^ Ludwig Hoffmann : The Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 27, No. 100 (December 11, 1907), p. 654.
11. ↑ Hans Schliepmann: Heinrich Seeling . (PDF) In: Berliner Architekturwelt , Volume 15, Issue 12, p. 477
12. ^ Ph. Nitze: The city hospital of Berlin-Neukölln . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 33, No. 55 (July 12, 1913), pp. 354–355.
13. ↑ Ludwig Hoffmann: A walk through the old people's home in book . (PDF) In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst , 2nd year 1915/16, issue 7, pp. 261–308.
14. ^ Herrmann: New prison on Plötzen-See near Berlin . (PDF) In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 30, Issue 11, Col. 509.
15. ^ New penal institution on Plötzen-See near Berlin . (PDF) In: Atlas der Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1880, Bl. 62–63.

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