Sonja

It's rarely photographed and its interesting because of the lacking mentions everywhere online as a landmark in spite of being a prominent feature seen from the mainroad. People already started to call it " Watertower" which it never was. Meanwhile this is also the name used by the press, not that it ever reports directly about it, just if something happened nearby like the "panther" in the woods last year that furned out a black dodgehound. It was built by the Altenstadt Airbase back in WWII. Long time a bare gray concrete ruin until a few years ago when it aquired new siding security fences and several antennas.

I am always interested in mysterious things visible in the real world but not to google well.

Down from the main road passing the Gallows Hill it graces the landscape in a way it vaguely can recall Thomas Moran/s painting of Childe Roland's dark tower at dawn.
I must admit at daytime it is rather utilitarian looking. I still wanted to hike up there for years. Karl claims he was inside as a schoolboy with a few chums but it was to boring to remember a lot of it and he recalls only that there was a ladder to a broken lower window and inside only stairs. Anyway, trespassing some 48 or so years later is more difficult and not really on my agenda. I just wanted to see it close up and in some detail.