Kaiser Wilhelm Tower or Emperor William Tower is the name of various

observation tower An observation tower is a tower used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision to conduct long distance observations. Observation towers are usually at least tall and are made from stone, iron, and woo ...

s, mostly in Germany, which are given that name, although some of them also have alternative names: Extant Kaiser Wilhelm towers in Germany: * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Bad Schmiedeberg), on the ''Schöne Aussicht'' in the

Düben Heath The Düben Heath () is a landscape in Germany in eastern Saxony-Anhalt and northern Saxony, between the rivers Elbe and the Mulde, on the northern edge of the Leipzig Bay. It is bounded in the west by the town of Dessau, in the north by the Elb ...

Bad Schmiedeberg Bad Schmiedeberg () is a small town in the Wittenberg (district), district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies within the Düben Heath Nature Park. History The town was first mentioned in 1206 as ''Smedeberg''. In 1350, it was grant ...

, Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Eutin), on the Wilhelmshöhe by the Kellersee lake, Fissau (

Eutin Eutin () is the district capital of Ostholstein, Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of December 2022, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants. History The name Eutin (originally Utin) is of Slavic ...

), Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Herne), water tower and observation tower on the Beimberg,

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen. History Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the 19th century. When the mining of c ...

* Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Hohe Acht), on the Hohe Acht in the Eifel, near Adenau, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Black Forest on the Hohloh, near Gernsbach, Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg – see Hohloh Tower * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Holzminden), in

Holzminden Holzminden (; ) is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Holzminden (district), Holzminden. It is located on the river Weser, which at this point forms the border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

, Holzminden, Lower Saxony * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, auf den Lahnbergen in

Marburg Marburg (; ) is a college town, university town in the States of Germany, German federal state () of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf Districts of Germany, district (). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has ...

, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse – see Spiegelslust Tower * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Neugattersleben), in the Schloss Park at

Neugattersleben Neugattersleben is a village and a former municipality in the district Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Nienburg.Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower Kaiser ( ; ) is the title historically used by German and Austrian emperors. In German, the title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (). In English, the word ''kaiser'' is mainly applied to the emperors ...

, on the Sackpfeife, near Hatzfeld, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse *

Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Schläferskopf) Kaiser Wilhelm Tower or Emperor William Tower is the name of various observation towers, mostly in Germany, which are given that name, although some of them also have alternative names: Extant Kaiser Wilhelm towers in Germany: * Kaiser Wilhelm Towe ...

, in the Taunus on the Schläferskopf, Wiesbaden-Klarenthal, Hesse * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower, in the Harz on the Armeleuteberg, near Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt – see

Kaiser Tower (Wernigerode) The Kaiser Tower () is an observation tower standing on the 478-metre-high hill of Armeleuteberg on the territory of the German town of Wernigerode. It was designed by the royal architect of the princes of Stolberg, Paul Kilburger, and financed an ...

Non-preserved Kaiser Wilhelm towers: * Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, on the Carlsberg in Danzig-Oliva, Poland * Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (Essen), in Stoppenberg,

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

, North Rhine-Westphalia * Kaiser Wilhelm I Tower, in Silesian Meffersdorf, today Pobiedna, Poland Kaiser Wilhelm towers that have since been renamed or rededicated: * Fuchsturm (Gera), on the Fuchsberg in Debschwitz,

Gera Gera () is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of ...

, Thuringia * Grunewald Tower, on the Karlsberg in Berlin-Grunewald * Österberg Tower, on the Österberg in

Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

, Baden-Württemberg * Wilhelm Raabe Tower, in the Harz on the Eichenberg, near Blankenburg, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt * Wolfert Tower, in the Wolfertanlage in Ehingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg

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