Water tower of the alley Wiśniowa de Wrocław

Tower water of the alley Wiśniowa (in Polish: Wieża ciśnień przy alei Wiśniowej ) - located in the district of Borek at Wrocław. The official address is: 125a street Sudecka, it is in fact right in the middle of the Wiśniowa alley. The tower has a 62 meters height. To the 2/3 its height (with 42 meters of the ground) is a platform of observation - which one can admire the panorama of the city, and - in clear weather - to even see the mount Ślęża moves away from 30 km, or the distant Sudètes of almost 100 km.

Its construction was carried out in the years 1903 - 1904 according to the project of Karl Klimm on left bank of the city, and in 1906 were accommodated the first people wishing to contemplate the panorama. Starting from 1908, the personnel of the castle hung to his point a red flag the days when the atmospheric conditions made it possible to have a good sight of the landscape. The price to use the driving Ascenseur at the platform was then of 10 Pfennig E. During the seat of Festung Breslau in 1945 the castle fulfills the role of turn of observation in direction of the face. Since the end of the Second world war until in the Years 1990, the castle neither was maintained, nor opened with the tourisime, although its cistern was still used until half of the Années 1980 for the delivery system of drinking water of the city. Finally in 1996, the castle was bought by Stephan Helmut, and completely restored (work cost approximately 2 million and half of euro). It shelters from now on a restaurant named “ Wieża Ciśnień ”, a center of conference and a platform of observation.

The water tower represents an eclectic form of style with elements of architecture of the type Sécession in the ornaments and the sculptures, mix forms Néo-gothique S (cupola under the tank) with a style Néoromam.

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Wieża Ciśnień
photographs on Wratislaviae Amici

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