Lüneburg Water Tower

[1] The water tower is 55 metres (180 ft) tall, and is the tallest building in the Lüneburg old town that is not a church.

It stands between the considerably newer Nordlandhalle (which has been demolished meanwhile) and the Johanneum, the latter now used as a school.

The tower consists of a square base of 18 metres (59 ft) and a round portion which is walled up around a 500 cubic metres (18,000 cu ft) large water tank.

It was planned to demolish it, but this was cancelled because of too high costs, and later the tower was declared a cultural heritage monument.

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