Industrial heritage in Berlin

A stone's throw from Ostbahnhof station in the German capital, Berlin, you will come across this brick water tower from 1880.

In the Herzberge landscape park, a green oasis in Berlin's Lichtenberg district, the Queen Elisabeth evangelical hospital was built at the end of the nineteenth century and was heated from a separate boiler room.

In 1837, August Borsig set up a workshop on Chausseestraße in Berlin. He assembled his first locomotive three years later, the first of many.

A 50-meter-high water tower rises from the ground between the former Tempelhof railway yard tracks in Berlin. With a capacity of 400 cubic meters of water, he could supply ten steam locomotives with the snap of a finger.

Barely a quarter of a century after constructing the Anhalter Bahn railway depot, the water reservoir was no longer sufficient to supply the larger and more powerful steam locomotives. That is why a completely new water tower was erected in 1908.