Esbjerg Water Tower 

	Opening Hours and Admission The architect was C.H. Clausen (1866-1941), who let himself inspire by a German model: Hans Nassau in Nürnberg, who he knew from contemporary German architecture works. The water tower was built 1896-1897 on a Bronze Age burial mound above the newly constructed harbour. Since the tower is built upon at the height of the city, facing the sea, it soon became the landmark of Esbjerg.
The about 9.000 inhabitants still had no waterworks in 1894-1895. The water supply was managed by wells and water posts spread across the town. It was immensely important to establish a public water supply, since the town kept growing. After several unsuccessful drillings water was found in the Vognsbøl Park. The annual consumption in 1897 was for each inhabitant 31 litres per day. Already the year after the consumption had arisen to 51 litres per day. In order to compare the supply, the daily consumption in 1995 was 145 litres per day pro persona.
The water tower contained 131 cubic metres of water. The annual consumption in 1897 was more than 130,000 cubic metres, and the following seven years it rose by 400 %. In 1904 they built another water tower at Nygårdsvej. Later on the water was lead directly out to the consumers, and only the surplus water was contained by the two water towers. The rise of population came as a surprise to the parish council, and in the five years between 1894 and 1899 they had to built a gasworks, a waterworks, three new schools, a mortuary, a cemetery, a fire station, sewers, and carry through paving and asphalting for more than 1 million kroner. Both the amount and the extent of the works show that the parish council found it necessary to give Esbjerg the infra structure of a modern town.