Kaiser Wilhelm Tower

Kaiser Wilhelm Tower or Emperor William Tower is the name of various observation towers, mostly in Germany, which are given that name, although some of them also have alternative names:

Extant Kaiser Wilhelm towers in Germany:

  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Bad Schmiedeberg), on the Schöne Aussicht in the Düben Heath, Bad Schmiedeberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Eutin), on the Wilhelmshöhe by the Kellersee lake, Fissau (Eutin), Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Herne), water tower and observation tower on the Beimberg, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Hohe Acht), on the Hohe Acht in the Eifel, near Adenau, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Black Forest on the Hohloh, near Gernsbach, Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg – see Hohloh Tower
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Holzminden), in Holzminden, Holzminden, Lower Saxony
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, auf den Lahnbergen in Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse – see Spiegelslust Tower
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Neugattersleben), in the Schloss Park at Neugattersleben (Nienburg (Saale)), Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower, on the Sackpfeife, near Hatzfeld, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Schläferskopf), in the Taunus on the Schläferskopf, Wiesbaden-Klarenthal, Hesse
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Harz on the Armeleuteberg, near Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt – see Kaiser Tower (Wernigerode)

Non-preserved Kaiser Wilhelm towers:

  • Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, on the Carlsberg in Danzig-Oliva, Poland
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Essen), in Stoppenberg, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, in Silesian Meffersdorf, today Pobiedna, Poland

Kaiser Wilhelm towers that have since been renamed or rededicated:

  • Fuchsturm (Gera), on the Fuchsberg in Debschwitz, Gera, Thuringia
  • Grunewald Tower, on the Karlsberg in Berlin-Grunewald
  • Österberg Tower, on the Österberg in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
  • Wilhelm Raabe Tower, in the Harz on the Eichenberg, near Blankenburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Wolfert Tower, in the Wolfertanlage in Ehingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg


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