Location: Germany Bremen Bremerhaven
Water tower and apartment block in one: a 33-metre clinker building of 1927 in Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf with 24 flats – at the time the first high-rise on the Lower Weser.
Interesting facts
- The tower contains 24 two- and three-room flats.
- At the time it was built, it was the first high-rise on the Lower Weser.
- The two water tanks hold 1,500 cubic metres in total.
Why visit
- An unusual combination of water tower and apartment block
- Brick Expressionism of the 1920s
The residential water tower in Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf combines two functions: it was built to supply water to the town and harbour and also provides housing. It was designed by Wesermünde’s city architect Wilhelm Eduard Kunz and Heinrich Mangel, head of Bremerhaven’s building department. It was built in 1927 in 15 months at a cost of 420,000 Reichsmark.
The 33-metre tower has eight storeys. It is a reinforced-concrete frame clad in clinker brick, in the style of Brick Expressionism with elements of the New Building movement. At the top are two reinforced-concrete tanks holding 1,500 cubic metres in total; below them, five residential floors contain 24 two- and three-room flats. At the time it was built, it was the first high-rise building on the Lower Weser. It has been a listed monument since 1978.
History
Built in 1927 in 15 months to designs by Wilhelm Eduard Kunz and Heinrich Mangel (cost 420,000 Reichsmark), listed since 1978.
Special features
33-metre, eight-storey reinforced-concrete frame clad in clinker brick in the Brick Expressionist style; two tanks (1,500 m³ in total) and 24 flats on five floors.
Practical information
- Suitable for
- Fans of architecture and industrial heritage.
- Getting there
- In Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf. The building is inhabited and can only be seen from outside.
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Sources
Image: Hannes Grobe (talk) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
