Wasserturm am Bahnhof Leeste, Water tower at Leeste railway station in Weyhe, Germany.
The water tower at Leeste railway station is a three-story brick structure with a pyramidal roof and wide cornice standing near the railway tracks. A single-story locomotive shed adjoins it, forming a connected ensemble of station infrastructure.
Constructed in 1909, the tower supplied water to the local railway line during its operational years until 1955. It was built during an era of expanding railway infrastructure in the region.
The tower served the Kleinbahn opened in 1908, later the Bremen-Thedinghauser Eisenbahn GmbH (BTE), which ran passenger services on the line until 1955. Its name comes from its function: it held the water that the steam locomotives of this small private railway took on at Leeste station. The single-storey locomotive shed beside it belongs to the same protected ensemble.
The tower and the adjoining locomotive shed stand at Leester Straße 88, at the corner with Irrgarten in the Leeste district of Weyhe. Both are listed monuments; the tower has stood empty for a long time and no new use has been found, so visits are limited to viewing the brick exterior and the shed from the street.
The tower has stood empty for a long time and no new use has been found for it. Right next to it stands the railway's single-storey locomotive shed, which is also a listed monument, so the two buildings survive as a pair of station structures from the line opened in 1908.
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