Wasserturm Neumünster, Water tower in Neumünster, Germany.
The Wasserturm Neumünster is a white-painted tower on Christianstraße, 48 meters tall, the highest water tower in Schleswig-Holstein. Its 30-meter conical shaft carries a round high-level tank with a 950-cubic-meter steel basin, wrapped in a projecting timber-frame structure and topped by a shallow conical roof with a ventilation lantern. The tower leans 24 millimeters to the northeast.
Built between 1899 and 1900 by the Baltic AG company, this water tower was part of Neumünster's first centralized water and electricity supply system that began operations in June 1900.
The tower features the KELVIN light art installation by Till Nowak, which uses LED lighting that changes color according to outside temperature, from yellow and red in cold weather to violet and blue in warm conditions.
The tower stands on the waterworks site on Christianstraße, in the northern part of Neumünster. It is not open to visitors: there is no observation deck or staircase access, and the white exterior is best seen from the street. The KELVIN light installation runs every night from sunset to sunrise.
This heritage monument in Schleswig-Holstein has developed a slight lean of 24 millimeters toward the northeast due to structural settling, making it one of Germany's leaning water towers.
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