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Prenzlauer Berg Water Tower (Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg)

Prenzlauer Berg Water Tower (Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg)

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Location: Berlin, Germany

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1. Landwehr Canal at the Zoo – Engelbecken loop from Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park

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2. Water tower square loop from Kollwitzkiez

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3. Zeiss-Großplanetarium – Gethsemanekirche loop from Schönhauser Allee

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Paul

August 28, 2022

Prenzlauer Berg water reservoir
Around 1850, Berlin was considered the stinkiest city in Europe. On the orders of the King of Prussia, the first public water supply system for Berlin was built between 1852 and 1856 by the Berlin Waterworks Company. On the Windmühlenberg - today the water tower area - a large open water basin and a riser tower were built. After 1873 the complex was expanded. The water tower with a high reservoir and apartments, machine houses and a second much larger closed deep tank (today the large water reservoir) were built. The old pool was vaulted (today the small water reservoir).
Despite further modernization around the turn of the century, the system became ineffective for the fast-growing city just a few years later. In 1914 it was shut down. In the years that followed, the rooms hidden in the ground served as storage, workshops, and for a short time as a so-called "flying concentration camp", war kitchen, air raid shelter and fish hall.
Text / Source: Förderband e. V. Cultural Initiative Berlin
foerderband.comtels.de/_rubric/index.php?rubric=Die%20Wasserspeicher

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Paul

August 28, 2022

Memorial plaque for the victims of the Wasserturm concentration camp
This page provides an overview of memorials, memorials, memorials, museums, archives and special educational institutions around the world that commemorate the victims of National Socialism. The victims included in particular people who died for political, racist, social reasons, for reasons of their faith, their ideology, through enslavement, because of their "unworthy life" in the National Socialist sense or because of the National Socialist perversion of justice through state violence and arbitrariness , suffered severe health damage and lost all their belongings.
Text/Source: Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Gedenkst%C3%A4tten_f%C3%BCr_die_Opfer_des_Nationalsozialismus

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SaRie

May 26, 2018

The water tower in the south of Prenzlauer Berg was built in the mid-19th century and is one of the oldest surviving water towers in Berlin. To this day, the tower is affectionately called "Dicker Hermann" by many Berliners. It now serves as a residential building.

Beautifully situated in a small public park, with many benches, a playground, trampoline and table tennis tables, you can also make yourself comfortable up here with a picnic blanket, enjoy the view of the TV tower and Wilhelminian style buildings and then look forward to a visit to one of the numerous street cafés or restaurants around the Wasserturmplatz.

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Location: Berlin, Germany

Prenzlauer Berg Water Tower (Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg)

1. Landwehr Canal at the Zoo – Engelbecken loop from Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park

2. Water tower square loop from Kollwitzkiez

3. Zeiss-Großplanetarium – Gethsemanekirche loop from Schönhauser Allee

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