Architect Hugo Röttcher, who worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, designed the water tower. It was built in 1927 at a time when the growth of the Tempelhof railway yard was at an all-time high. The bullet-shaped water tank is supported by five massive pillars and a central shaft.
Twenty years later, his song was over. The rise of electric and diesel locomotives on the one hand and the demise of the railway yard after the Second World War on the other made the water tower redundant.
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