Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg

The Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg is Berlin's oldest water tower, completed in 1877 and in use until 1952.

It is situated between Knaackstraße and Belforter Straße in Kollwitzkiez, in the Prenzlauer Berg locality of Berlin (part of Pankow district) and worked on the principle of using piped water to supply the rapidly growing population of workers.

[1] Below the storage tank were the homes of the machinery operators who worked in the tower; these apartments - a landmark of Prenzlauer Berg - are still inhabited and in much demand.

[2] After the National Socialists' "seizure of power", the SA's Maschinenhaus I, which belonged to the water tower, served as a "wild concentration camp" in spring 1933, in which Communists, Socialists, Jews and other persons unwelcome to the new rulers were interned and murdered without a court ruling.

In the autumn of 1934, the SA-Heim was demolished in 1935.,[3][4] and work began on converting the grounds into a public park.