Lokstedt water tower, Water tower in Lokstedt, Hamburg, Germany.

The Lokstedt water tower is a brick tower at the junction of Süderfeldstraße and Lokstedter Steindamm in Hamburg's Eimsbüttel district. It rises 50.25 m from a conical shaft to a projecting head that once held a 500 m³ Intze-I tank, and is clad in copper sheets above a brick base. A conical roof with a lantern tops it, and larger windows and a surrounding parapet were added for its conversion to housing.

The tower was built in the early 1900s when Hamburg was expanding quickly and new neighborhoods needed to be connected to the public water supply. At that time, Lokstedt was still a separate village outside the city and was only later incorporated into Hamburg.

The red brick tower has been a familiar sight for generations and gives the neighborhood a recognizable reference point that residents still navigate by today. Walking past it, you get a sense of how much the area has changed around it while the tower itself has stayed the same.

The tower is in a quiet residential area and is easy to reach on foot. The surrounding streets are lined with brick houses from roughly the same period, which makes a short walk through the neighborhood worth the time.

Since 1984 the tower has belonged to the Schwander family, who converted it into housing; the tank itself was hollowed out and a three-level flat built inside it. Only the inner cylinder of the container was removed. The fire brigade required a walk-around parapet at the lowest living level because its ladders reach only 30 m.