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Ohlsdorf Cemetery Water Tower

Ohlsdorf Cemetery Water Tower

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Ohlsdorf Cemetery Water Tower

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irgendwohin 😗 🥾🚶‍♀️⛰ 🚴‍♀️

July 19, 2020

The water tower serves as a kind of landmark in the cemetery.

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Michael wandert 🏠

April 27, 2020

The water tower at Ohlsdorf Cemetery is located on Cordes Allee on a high part of the cemetery site. With its historicizing design, it looks more like a sacral building or part of a castle complex. The tower forms an orientation point for the cemetery visitors on the main axis of the older cemetery area.

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JR56

October 24, 2023

Thirty meters tall, slender, and adorned with typical architectural elements of its era: This is how the white and brown water tower dominates Cordesallee. The avenue was named after Johann Wilhelm Cordes, who, as construction manager and later director of the cemetery grounds, designed the tower, built in 1898. The tower served as a water reservoir for a good twenty years until the cemetery was connected to the municipal water network.
After years of decay, the dilapidated water tower underwent its first renovation in 1990. Damage to the wall plaster, the base, and the upper framework necessitated further repairs. Determining the original colors for the new paint scheme proved particularly difficult, but this was ultimately achieved. Today, the tower appears as it did in Johann Wilhelm Cordes's time.

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