Said to be in Poland, though I have not been able to confirm that with a reverse image search. Identified by reader Wayne as the
Wroclaw Water Tower.
Built 1904-1905 beside Wiśniowa Avenue and Sudecka Street junction, the tower supplied water to the residents of the southern districts of Wrocław for many years. The tower is 63 meters high. It was equipped with an electric lift from the very beginning... Two sculptors, Taschner and Bednorz, decorated the lower part of the building with bas-reliefs in sandstone, representing fantastic creatures reminiscent of medieval bestiaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw_Water_Tower
ReplyDeleteNot claiming to have seen or know where this is, but it's very reminiscent of a lot of the architecture I've seen in Krakow and Gdansk in southern Poland.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw_Water_Tower
ReplyDeleteBeautiful ! People are so clever.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia mentions offhandedly that "In 2017 the property was sold to a new private investor and the tower is no longer open to visitors."
ReplyDeleteA loss.
I'm curious about the L with the slanted line in Wrocław.
ReplyDeleteIt's had a stroke:
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Small virtual world, but last year I built a copy of this water tower in the 3D modeling program Blender and uploaded it into Second Life. It stands in the port of the steampunk community New Babbage. I had to recolor it a bit to make it fit into the dirt of Victorian England, so:
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https://imgur.com/dBqb6bK
the Ł is pronounced like a soft 'w'.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a Townscaper construction!
ReplyDeleteImagine the power when you flush a toilet on the first floor!
ReplyDeletehow could your ancestors forget to level this city? ...just wondering (Reichsluftschutzkeller)
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