The Cuxhaven water tower in Cuxhaven, Bahnhofstraße 11, today e.g. with apartments, is under monument protection in Lower Saxony and is included in the list of monuments in Cuxhaven.

A cholera epidemic in Hamburg in 1892 with 8,605 deaths prompted the city of Hamburg in 1896 to set up a central water supply with a water tower in the Ritzebüttel district, in Cuxhaven and in Döse in order to prevent infectious diseases and to supply the ships in the port.

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The water tower was put into operation in 1897 and was an important part of the city's water supply. The tower is 35 meters high and holds a total of 400 cubic meters of water. In 2004 the water tower, one of Cuxhaven's landmarks, was taken out of service. Instead, four apartments were built on the round base.

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