The water tower is the last standing remain from a former factory for sleepers (the wooden or concrete things you lay railway tracks on).
The factory and the tower were built in 1907 and finally abandoned 1998. The halls and other buildings are already demolished to make place for a new residential area, but the tower is listed as a regional historic monument (Denkmalschutz in German) and can't be demolished. The investors had said they would save the tower and integrating it into the new quarter, but there is no sign activity renovation yet.
The surprising thing was, we found almost no graffiti.
We refused to climb to the very top. See last picture why.
The factory and the tower were built in 1907 and finally abandoned 1998. The halls and other buildings are already demolished to make place for a new residential area, but the tower is listed as a regional historic monument (Denkmalschutz in German) and can't be demolished. The investors had said they would save the tower and integrating it into the new quarter, but there is no sign activity renovation yet.
The surprising thing was, we found almost no graffiti.
We refused to climb to the very top. See last picture why.
