The concrete structure of this dodecagonal construction was built in 1936. The outside of the tower was bricked up with red bricks. A year later, the tower supplied drinking water to Axel and the surrounding area. The three separate barrels fit 1,300 cubic meters of drinking water.
One of the highest water towers in the Netherlands
About 60 years later, in 1995, the drinking water supply was closed. The municipality of Axel bought the monument, which is 60.6 meters high. It maintained it as a young industrial national monument you can visit, thanks to the Dutch Water Tower Foundation, which strives to preserve water towers.