Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg

The water tower Prenzlauer Berg is Berlin's oldest water tower, completed in 1877 and in operation until 1952. He stands between Knaackstraße and Belfort Road in the Kollwitz neighborhood of the district Prenzlauer Berg ( Pankow ) of Berlin and served according to the principle of communicating vessels to supply the rapidly growing former workers district. Below the water tank were the dwellings of the machinist of the tower; these apartments in the landmark of Prenzlauer Berg are still inhabited and highly sought after. As a symbol, he was part of the district coat of arms from 1920 to 1987 and 1987 until 1992.

After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis that served the water tower belonging nacelle I of SA in the spring of 1933 as " wild concentration camps " in which communists, socialists, Jews and others the new rulers unwelcome people were interned and murdered without trial. At these crimes since 1981, a memorial wall at the site of the water tower. As of June 1933, the reconstruction of the KL to the " SA- home water tower " was. Built in 1877, approximately 1000 m² nacelle I served the SA members as a dining room and lounge, the nacelle II as a dormitory. In the fall of 1934, the SA -Heim was dissolved and started reconfiguring the site into a public park. In the course of this action, the nacelle I was blown up in June 1935. The inauguration of the park on May 1, 1937. At the site of the power house I is now a playground.