Vukovar water tower

Vukovar water tower is a water tower inside the Croatian city of Vukovar. It is one of the most well-known symbols of Vukovar and the struggling of the town and the counrty. Within the Battle of Vukovar and the Croatian War of Independence, whilst the water tower and the town itself were in large part destroyed by using the Serbian forces. The water tower became designed by using the employer Plan and constructed through Hidrotehna Zagreb, in the overdue Sixties. It turned into built in a metropolis park, popularly called Najpar-baš?a, inside the district of Mitnica. Until the war, the top of the tower became home to a eating place with a view over Vukovar, Dunav and surrounding vineyards.

During the Battle of Vukovar, the water tower turned into one of the most frequent objectives of artillery. It turned into hit extra than six hundred instances during the siege. After the reintegration of Vukovar into the Republic of Croatia, reconstruction of the water tower turned into initiated with the aid of Croatian President Franjo Tu?man, but that has considering that changed. The water tower will not be restored to its unique kingdom and will as an alternative grow to be a memorial region to the ache and suffering that Vukovar endured.