Wasserturm am Steeler Berg, Water tower in Essen, Germany

The tower at Steeler Berg is a brick structure 26 meters tall carrying a water container 18 meters in diameter, situated at Diether-Krebs-Platz. The building was designed to function continuously and still holds water for the city's supply system today.

A water basin stood on the Steeler Berg from 1866. The tower itself was built in 1883–84 to plans by Aachen engineer Otto Intze, in Historicist style on the Steeler Chaussee, today's Steeler Straße, to secure drinking water for the fast-growing industrial city. After severe war damage it was rebuilt more plainly after World War II, without the two corner towers of about 33.5 metres each and without the stone casing of the container.

The tower is stop 28, "Wasser: Werke, Türme und Turbinen", on the Route der Industriekultur. Its iron container is an Intze hanging-bottom tank built with F. A. Neumann of Eschweiler, with spring-mounted pipes to absorb mining subsidence. In the Weimar Republic a memorial stone in the adjoining Ostpark listed the 40 dead security police and Einwohnerwehr members, including eleven from the tower, while the workers' dead went unnamed.

The tower stands at Diether-Krebs-Platz, renamed from Ostpark in 2011, on the Steeler Berg in Essen's Südostviertel; the address is Kurfürstenstraße 1. It is a working water facility, not open for interior visits, so the brick building and the exposed 18-meter iron tank are seen from the square. The Essener Tafel moved out in October 2025.

The Essener Tafel, founded on 4 January 1995, had its headquarters in the tower until September 2025, when it moved to a hall in Essen's Westviertel. In March 2018 the food bank drew nationwide attention after complaining about queue-jumping young male refugees; reports were filmed at the tower.