Kaiser Wilhelm Tower

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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:

  • , on the Schöne Aussicht in the Düben Heath, Bad Schmiedeberg, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt
  • , on the Wilhelmshöhe by the Kellersee lake, Fissau (Eutin), Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein
  • , 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
  • , in Holzminden, Holzminden, Lower Saxony
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, auf den Lahnbergen in Marburg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse – see
  • , in the Schloss Park at Neugattersleben (Nienburg (Saale)), Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt
  • , 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
  • , 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:

  • , on the Fuchsberg in Debschwitz, Gera, Thuringia
  • Grunewald Tower, on the Karlsberg in Berlin-Grunewald
  • , 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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