Water Tower Elsterwerda

The water tower on West Street in the southern Brandenburg town of Elsterwerda was built from 1905 to 1906 and is now protected as a technical cultural monument.
The construction of the municipal water supply was decided on July 5, 1901, at a public meeting to which Mayor Albert Wilde had invited. While water was drawn from a spring on Kahlaer Weg through a lift works at a depth of eight meters, a water tower was needed to maintain a consistent water pressure in the pipes. This was built from 1905 to 1906 on what is now West Street and was filled with water for the first time on February 27, 1906. The official commissioning took place on April 1, 1906. It has a height of 32 meters and houses an iron water tank with a capacity of 250 m³, which is surrounded by a cylindrical reinforced concrete casing. To supply steam locomotives with water, three water cranes from the nearby station were connected in 1912. By 1942, the municipal facility was no longer sufficient to supply the rapidly growing town, and the pipeline network of the forcibly incorporated district of Biehla from 1940 was connected. The water tower on West Street was ultimately taken out of service in 1948 for municipal water supply and was slated for demolition in the 1980s after the Deutsche Reichsbahn also had no further use for the building. As monument conservationists and the city council at the time advocated for the preservation of the technical monument, a renovation was agreed upon, and the tower roof was extensively renewed in 1989.

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