Wasserturm / ehem. Kriegspulvermagazin II
Wasserturm / ehem. Kriegspulvermagazin II stands in Neu-Ulm as a water tower above a former military powder magazine. The tower rose above that magazine in 1898. Kriegspulvermagazin II stored black powder within Neu-Ulm’s nineteenth-century fortification system, with capacity for up to sixty tons. Theodor von Hildebrandt designed the wider system.
Bavarian officers Lutz, Ysenburg, and Schönnamsgruber supervised construction, shaping bastions and curtain walls from brick. Brick gave the defenses their visible character. The alternating bastions and curtain walls created a defensive landscape distinct from neighboring Ulm’s. Civil water use later replaced the military storage function.
The change from powder magazine to water tower reflects Neu-Ulm’s shift from military protection toward civic infrastructure. The former magazine still anchors the tower’s history. Sixty tons of black powder once defined the purpose of this brick-built site.
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