Brückentürme der Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke, Bridge towers in Duisburg, Germany

The Brückentürme der Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke are two 32-metre-high towers of solid masonry at the Ruhrort end of the Rhine crossing in Duisburg. Karlsruhe architect Hermann Billing designed them, and they were built between 1904 and 1907 for the city of Ruhrort and the municipality of Homberg. Colonnades once linked the towers to the bridge, and a curved double staircase led down to Fürst-Bismarck-Straße.

The two 32-metre towers were built in solid masonry between 1904 and 1907 to plans by Karlsruhe architect Hermann Billing, for the city of Ruhrort and the municipality of Homberg, as toll stations on the first Duisburg Rhine bridge, an iron lattice cantilever bridge. German Wehrmacht engineers blew up that bridge in 1945; the 1951–1954 replacement as a cable-stayed bridge widened the carriageways, so the two smaller towers on the Homberg bank were dismantled. The Ruhrort towers were kept, and on 19 March 1985 they were listed as monument no. 54.

The towers' name comes from their role in collecting the bridge toll: attendants lived on site and stopped long-distance traffic to charge it. Colonnades once linked the towers to the bridge, and a curved double staircase ran down to Fürst-Bismarck-Straße, ending at the fountain with the legendary Ruhrort lion. The ground floors held shops, and the south tower housed a restaurant.

The towers stand on the Ruhrort bank of the Rhine, flanking the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke. They are in private commercial use and not open to the public, so they are seen from the street or the bridge. The site is a short walk from Ruhrort's centre.

The two smaller towers on the Homberg bank were dismantled when the wider replacement bridge was built in 1951–1954, so only the Ruhrort pair remains. The Ruhrort towers themselves were nearly demolished too, since a toll station was no longer needed, but the plan was never carried out.