List of railway water towers in Germany

Notes on using the table

This list is sortable. In the default setting, the water towers are sorted alphabetically by location.

The list shows the railway water towers described in Wikipedia . It contains both disused water towers and those that are still in operation.

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

place	image	designation	location	Construction year	height	Container volume	Remarks
Berlin-Moabit		Signal box Berlin-Moabit VAT	⊙	1892/93			Combined construction of signal box and water tower, closed, monument
Bredstedt		Bredstedt railway water tower	-	1928	24 m	40 m³	shut down, unused
Books		Büchen railway water tower	-	1912	14.5 m	100 m³	tore off
Crailsheim		Crailsheim water tower	⊙	1912	23.7 m	600 m³	Monument, today used by restaurants
Darmstadt		Water tower at Darmstadt Central Station	⊙	1910-1912			Combined construction of water tower and signal box, closed in 1975, monument
Dortmund depot	-	Water tower of the Dortmund depot	-	circa 1935	37 m	1000 m³	monument
Dortmund Südbahnhof		Water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof	-	1927	43 m	800 m³	monument
Duisburg- Friemersheim		Hohenbudberg water tower	⊙	1915/16	35 m	2 × 500 m³	Double water tower shut down in 1965, monument
Duisburg- Hochfeld		Hochfeld water tower	⊙	1917	47 m	1000 m³	closed, monument, use for office space and restaurant
Fürstenhagen (Eichsfeld)		Fürstenhagen railway water tower	-	1914	19 m	25 m³	Information center, architectural monument
Geesthacht		Geesthacht railway water tower	-	1917	23.7 m	30 m³	shut down
Hagenow		Water tower at Hagenow Land station	-		approx. 30 m		shut down, unused, monument
Halle (Saale)		Water tower Halle (Saale) main station	-	1910	17.5 m	210 m³	Advertising medium
Hamburg , Altona district		Altona railway water tower	⊙	1954/55	37 m	500 m³	In operation in 2003, monument
Heidelberg , Bahnstadt		Water tower on the Czernyring	-	1907			Container based on the Intze principle , decommissioned, monument, used for events
Heidelberg , Bahnstadt		Water tower in Eppelheimer Strasse	⊙	1925-1927	30 m	333 m³	shut down, monument, used for events
Kirchenlaibach		Water tower in the Bw Kirchenlaibach
Kirchseeon		Water tower in the Kirchseeon sleeper works	⊙	1902-1903	27 m		Closed in 1958, unused, monument
Kornwestheim		Railway water tower of the Kornwestheim depot	⊙	1914	30 m	1100 m³	Use by gastronomy
Oldenburg		Railway water tower Oldenburg harbor	-	1908	33 m	500 m³	Used as office space
Osnabrück		Water tower at Osnabrück Central Station	⊙			750 m³	shut down
Westerland / Sylt		Westerland water tower	-	1927	21.8 m	100 m³	Used as an apartment, monument
Wuppertal		Water tower at Wuppertal-Steinbeck train station	-				shut down, monument

See also

• List of water towers in Iława (German Eylau) with railway water towers from 1871, 1915 and 1942
• Residential water tower
• List of water towers in Berlin
• List of water towers in Hamburg
• List of water towers in Mannheim
• List of water towers in Schleswig-Holstein

Web links

Commons : Railway water towers and tanks in Germany  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The water tower at Osnabrück train station should become a music meeting place , noz.de, June 8, 2011, accessed on September 26, 2017.