Szablyár Péter: Sky-high - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2007)

Water Towers

■ Wafer fouler in Cötvöi út

It is on the way to Normafa that we can admire the water tower built on the highest point of all similar structures in Budapest on a traffic island in a forking of Eötvös út. The tower, which supports a two-hundred cubic metre basin, was built in 1912 to plans by Dr. Szilárd Zielinski, the father of Hungary's reinforced-concrete structures and the first chairman of the country's Chamber of Architects, its tank is automatically replenished from a pump station in Diana út. From here a compression pump forces the water up to height level with the János Hill observation tower.

The Eötvös út water tower

Eötvös út, District XII

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