# Paulinenwarte

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Paulinenwarte rises twenty-three metres above a hill in the centre of Türkenschanzpark, Vienna. Its visible brickwork echoes the villas of the surrounding Cottageviertel. From the observation platform, you can look across Vienna and towards the Vienna Woods, although mature trees interrupt parts of the view.

Anton Krones senior designed and built the tower for the park opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1888. The structure originally combined a lookout with a water reservoir serving the surrounding grounds. A metal tank remains in the lower section, where water once arrived from a nearby well and travelled through pipes. English landscape-garden features surround it, including lawns, hedges, ponds, rock gardens, and exotic plants donated by Princess Pauline Metternich. The tower received her name in 1909.

After closing in the 1970s, the tower underwent renovation beginning in 2009 and reopened in 2010. A plaque records its history beside the brickwork. The small platform and surviving tank bring Vienna’s park design, local architecture, and practical water supply together in one structure.

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