The Bismarck Column of Itzehoe, also known as the Bismarck Tower, stands in the Steinburg district of Schleswig-Holstein. It is one of the monuments erected in honor of Otto von Bismarck and one of the eight Bismarck Towers in Schleswig-Holstein.
The Bismarck Column is one of Itzehoe's landmarks and, as a cultural monument, stands 18 meters high as an observation tower in the Lübsches Gehölz (city forest) on a Bronze Age burial mound built on the crest of a glacial terminal moraine (76 meters above sea level).
After Bismarck's death in 1898, there was a broad movement in the German Empire to erect monuments to the former Chancellor. In Itzehoe, too, a group of Bismarck supporters suggested building a Bismarck Tower in the city in 1899.
``` According to an idea of the student body, a network of so-called fire pillars should be built throughout Germany in order to light large fire bowls on them on certain days in honor of Bismarck.