Water tower in Něchov, Water tower in Něchov, Czech Republic.
The water tower in Něchov is a 17-metre reinforced-concrete skeleton on a circular plan, with six pillars between which dressed stone is laid. The pillars read as pilasters carrying a cylindrical concrete reservoir 5 m across and holding 85 m³, topped by a dome with a lantern of glass-block windows. A memorial plaque and a frieze reading Lanna Praha 1927 stand at the entrance.
The tower was built in 1927 by the Lanna company of Prague under engineer Oldřich Lebl, as part of a grouped water supply system for Něchov, Nesměň, Besednice and Todně. The system drew from a spring on the slopes of Besednická hora and cost over 1.5 million crowns. Trial operation began in August 1928, approval followed in May 1929, and after bomb damage in 1945 the tower was repaired and returned to service in 1952.
The tower's name is simply that of the village, Něchov, in the Trhové Sviny area. A memorial plaque and a frieze reading "Lanna Praha 1927" at the entrance record the builder and year, and the site was declared a cultural monument of the Czech Republic in 2012. It is one of two above-ground reservoirs of the Besednice group water supply, paired with the tower in Nesměň.
The tower is accessible from cycling and walking routes that cross the area, making it easy to visit while exploring the region. The site is best seen during daylight hours when you can appreciate its form against the landscape.
The tower's entrance carries a memorial plaque and a frieze reading "Lanna Praha 1927", naming the builder and year. The reservoir holds 85 m³ in a concrete cylinder 5 m across, topped by a cupola with lantern windows. Bombardment at the end of the Second World War damaged it, and it returned to service only in 1952.
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