Cologne - Wasserturm

Cologne is the fourth-largest city in Germany - and one of the oldest. A Germanic tribe, the Ubii, had a settlement here, this was named by the Romans "Oppidum Ubiorum". In 50 AD, the Romans founded "Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium", the city then became the provincial capital of "Germania Inferior".

With the fast growing population in the second half of the 19th century, the water supply became a problem. The English engineer John Moore did a design for a tower with a capacity of about 14.000m³. The water tower that got actually built in 1868 was much smaller. It had a capacity 3.600m³.

Severely damaged during WWII the water tower was a ruin upto 1986, when the rebuilding started. In 1990 a posh hotel (*****) opened here.

www.hotel-im-wasserturm.de/en/hotel-design/