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Weyerbusch Tower, Observation tower in Wuppertal, Germany.

The Weyerbusch Tower is a stone observation tower standing 25 meters tall in Wuppertal, offering views across the region from its elevated platform. Visitors who reach the top can see the city and surrounding landscape spread out in all directions.

The Elberfeld button manufacturer and city councillor Emil Weyerbusch (1846–1909) founded a foundation in 1897 to build the tower in greywacke. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1898 after a short construction period. In 1945 British occupation troops bricked up its two originally open balconies and used them as radio cabins; they remain as slate-clad oriels. The city renovated the tower in 1981/82.

The tower is named after Emil Weyerbusch, the Elberfeld button manufacturer and city councillor (1846–1909) who founded a foundation in 1897 to finance its construction from greywacke. Until 2008 an amateur radio association kept a station in the tower, and the two balconies walled up by British occupation troops in 1945 remain as slate-clad oriels.

The tower stands on the Nützenberg summit at 259 m above sea level, on the north bank of the Wupper in the Elberfeld-West district. From the tower room, 119 steps lead up, plus another 18 to the platform at 17 m. Visits are possible once a year at a children's festival and by individual telephone appointment.

The two balconies were originally open, but British occupation troops bricked them up in 1945 and used them as radio cabins; they were never reopened and now appear as slate-clad oriels. Until 2008 an amateur radio association kept a station inside the tower.

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