Berlin Wasserturm11: Dahlem

Fichtenberg Wasserturm, 1886, anchors Steglitz's highest peak.  It's designer, Otto Techow, lived on a neighbouring plot. And probably the tower cast long, jagged shadows in the path of nearby resident Erich Pommer- producer of the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Blue Angel.

Today, Techow's creation is outfitted with the the most modern of instrumentation.  It peers skyward on behalf of the Institute of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, and affords a running account of Berlin's northwest horizon.