Water Tower disguised as medievaltowerBad Homburg

This water tower is at Bad Homburg in the Taunus in Hesse in Germany.

Bad Homburg was the fashionable spa town for Kaiser Wilhelm II and the crowned heads of Europe before the first world war.

A magnificent station was opened in 1907 to cater for the Kaiser's ceremonial requirements, replacing the previously separate stations of the Homburg Railway and the Prussian State Railway. A building was set aside for the use of royalty, the entrance of which has two large statues of a Germanic warrior and his wife.

The water tower appears to have been erected at the same time and fits well with the grandiose theme.

The station previously in poor condition is now being renovated.