Water tower, Water tower in Újpest district, Hungary

The Újpest Water Tower is a reinforced concrete and brick structure built in 1911–1912, with a brick lower section 9.5 m in internal diameter and walls 1.8 m thick at the base. It houses an Intze-type steel basin of 1,500 m³ with a diameter of 15 m, and its foundation is a concrete slab 19 m in diameter and 2.4 m thick. The tower narrows to about 11.6 m in external diameter at the brackets, reaching a height of 27 m.

In 1905 the independent town of Újpest commissioned a water network; the Belgian Compagnie Générale des Conduites d'Eau won the tender and founded the Ister Magyar Vízmű Rt. in 1910. Győző Mihailich designed the structure and Ödön Dümmerling the architecture, with Gyula Schreiber as contractor. Groundworks began on 3 July 1911 and the tower was handed over on 8 July 1912.

The tower stands as a landmark that shaped the district's visual identity during its growth as an industrial area. Its solid form reflects how communities once organized their essential services around such structures.

The tower stands in Újpest, in Budapest's IV district, on the flat Pest side of the city. It has been out of service since February 2003, so there is no interior visit; the structure is seen from the surrounding streets. A memorial plaque on its side marks the 1944 partisan raid.

In December 1944, Hungarian partisans ambushed the Arrow Cross guards posted at the tower and seized the explosives stored inside, which were possibly reserved for blowing it up. A plaque on the tower's side commemorates this raid, which spared the district its water supply.