Wasserturm Rheinhausen-Bergheim, Former water tower in Duisburg-Bergheim

The Wasserturm Bergheim is a 50-metre water tower on the highest point of Duisburg-Bergheim, 36 metres above sea level. Its brick shaft rises from a quarry-stone base and narrows from 12 metres wide at ground level to about 6 metres at the support ring. The spherical steel tank by Klönne, 9.20 metres across and holding over 400 cubic metres, rests on bearings inside the tower head. A round brick pump house with a battlemented balustrade stands nearby.

The tower was built in 1908 as a storage tower for the Hochemmerich community waterworks, directed by Josef Hansen, and was designed from the start for a fast-growing settlement. It served the population growth of Rheinhausen during the industrialisation of the Ruhr. The pumps were shut down in 1996 when the extraction reserves were exhausted; tower and pump house have been protected monuments since 1990.

The tower is named after Bergheim, the Duisburg district in Rheinhausen where it stands. Nearby, opposite the tower, the Rheinhausener Bergbausammlung mining collection is housed, and the Grashof and the Bergheim windmill stand close by, both also protected monuments. The tower and pump house have been listed since 1990.

The tower and its round pump house stand on the highest point of the area, 36 metres above sea level, surrounded by a water protection zone. The interior is not open to the public, so the brick tower and the pump house with its battlement-like balustrade are seen from outside. Opposite is the Rheinhausener Bergbausammlung, and the Grashof and the Bergheim windmill are also within walking distance.

The green night lighting runs only from St. Martin's Day (11 November) to the Christmas holidays, not through the whole winter. The tower's steel sphere, made by the Klönne firm, measures 9.20 metres across and holds roughly 400 cubic metres of water. A tube with ladder rungs passes through the sphere up to the lantern.