Bruderholz water tower
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Bruderholz water tower
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Basel | |||
| Canton: | Basel city | |||
| Country: | Switzerland | |||
| Altitude : | 367 m | |||
| Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '41.9 " N , 7 ° 35' 33.1" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eleven thousand five hundred ninety-one / 264185 | ||||
| Use: | Observation tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Observation tower open to the public | |||
| Owner : | Basel waterworks | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1926 | |||
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete | |||
| Total height : | 36.00 m | |||
| Viewing platform: | 27.00 m | |||
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The Bruderholz water tower is a 36 meter high water tower on the Bruderholz hill in Basel-Bruderholz .
The tower was built in 1926 due to the increasing settlement of the Bruderholz and is used to supply water to the houses on this hill.
In the water tower, it is possible to climb the viewing platform, which is 394 meters above sea level at a height of 27 meters, using 164 steps for a fee .
entrance
Viewing platform
Stairs in the upper half of the tower
Stairs lower half
Looking north. Panorama board on the water tower
Looking east. Panorama board on the water tower
Facing south. Panorama board on the water tower
Looking west. Panorama board on the water tower
In the novel The Merciful Hill by Lore Berger , the fictional character Bea fell from the Bruderholz water tower to her death . The author actually did the same in 1943.
Robert Dexter wrote a detective novel called Eine Stadt hat Angst , which takes place here.
literature
- Othmar Birkner, Hanspeter Rebsamen: Basel. In: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture 1850–1920 : Volume 2. Society for Swiss Art History, 1986, ISBN 978-3-280-01716-6 , page 195.
- Rolf Brönnimann: Basler industrial buildings 1850–1930: The emergence and development of industrial architecture in Basel and the surrounding area. Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, 1990, ISBN 978-3-85815-203-9 , pp. 102 and 103.
- Eugen Dietschi: The Bruderholz - 50 years of the neutral neighborhood association Bruderholz. Without publisher's information, 1975, page 7.
Web links
- Photos in the image database of the canton of Basel-Stadt
- altbasel.ch: Water tower on the Bruderholz
- brunnenfuehrer.ch
- grabmacherjoggi.ch: panoramic view from the water tower
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michelin: The green travel guide for Switzerland. Travel House Media, Munich 2007, p. 89.
