Trelleborg Old Water Tower is a now defunct

water tower A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. Water towers often operate in conjun ...

in ''Stadsparken'',

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the m ...

in southern Sweden. The erection of the water tower was initiated 1911 after drawings by the architect

Ivar Tengbom Ivar Justus Tengbom (April 7, 1878 – August 6, 1968) was a Swedish architect and one of the best-known representatives of the Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s. Tengbom was born in Vireda in Jönköping County, s ...

, and was finished 1912. Since the town of Trelleborg lies in flat surroundings the tower had to be tall; it is tall and is the largest building in Trelleborg. The uppermost three meters of the building is a copper-plated

spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires are ...

, a spire decorated by two

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s – one being in diameter, the other in diameter. The

cistern A cistern (Middle English ', from Latin ', from ', "box", from Greek ', "basket") is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by ...

could contain of water, its top was above the ground, and the beams on which the cistern rested were above the ground. The water tower was in use until 1974, when

Trelleborg New Water Tower Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the mo ...

took over its functions. Except a café at street level the water tower stands unused.

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