Esbjerg Water Tower

Esbjerg Water Tower is an iconic water tower in Esbjerg in southwest Jutland, Denmark. Completed in 1897, it was designed by means of Christian Hjerrild Clausen who were stimulated with the aid of Nuremberg's Nassauer Haus. It stands on a Bronze Age burial mound on the pinnacle of a cliff overlooking the harbour. As a result, it has emerge as the landmark of Esbjerg. Despite Esberg's speedy increase, by means of the mid-1890s the town's nine,000 population have been still with out running water. Instead, they made use of wells and deliver factors all through the metropolis. After several unsuccessful borings, a nice source of water changed into discovered within the metropolis park, Vognsbølparken. In 1895, it changed into determined that each fuel pipes and water pipes must be mounted at the equal time in reference to the establishment of a gasoline works and a water works.

The tank in the water tower had a capacity of 131 m3 four,six hundred cu feet but consumption grew so rapid that in 1904 a supplementary box with a capacity of 525 m3 18,500 cu feet needed to be mounted on Nygårdsvej. It became apparent that from the very begin, the box within the water tower were too small. From 1902, water turned into pumped at once to the clients, the packing containers most effective getting used to save excesses.