This lovely old water tower in Prenzlauerberg is a well-known landmark that most locals would recognize. The tower had good beginnings as a place for water to be stored and distributed to residents of the area, but later darker things happened here. It was used as a prison under the nazis and it is said prisoners were often tortured within the tower's walls.
Today the structure has been renovated and the floors are divided into apartments. The building is owned by the state, so there's a long wait-list to live inside the building. However, there have been reports of strange happenings and hauntings in some of the units. I'd love to take a look inside, haunted or not!
PS: Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! Please eat a slice of pumpkin pie for me.
PS: Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! Please eat a slice of pumpkin pie for me.
Love the first picture, what a stunning building although it's past history is upsetting...I hope you do get a chance to go inside perhaps you can get a ghostly image, have a good weekend...
ReplyDeleteIt looks good indeed despite its history. Now going inside.
ReplyDeleteWhat a magnificent building.
ReplyDeleteA haunted water tower? I am intrigued.
ReplyDeleteAn amazing and unusual building!
ReplyDeletewow! gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI think I'd find other accommodations! Interesting building, though!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a water tower one could live it! It is beautiful, even if not so beautiful things happened there.
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Before I even read the part about strange happenings I was already thinking it must be haunted. With a history like that it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see inside also.
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely building. Great to see it restored this way.
ReplyDeleteNo way I'd rent a place there.
ReplyDeleteWith a history like that, I'd be wary... but it is a pretty building.
ReplyDeleteOh my! I love what they've done with the old water Hal but with that history... I don't think so :)
ReplyDeleteLove both shots!
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