Memorials
Schrotkugel Tower
You can't miss it in Berlin-Rummelsburg: The red brick Schrotkugel Tower rises almost forty metres into the air. What looks nice today had a very practical use after it was built in 1908. As the name suggests,
Rummelsburg Bay and Victoriastadt
Photo: Arthur Selbach
landmark in Victoriastadt
Behind the colourful houses in the Kaskelkiez neighbourhood, you can't miss the 40 metre high Schrotkugel Tower. It was built in 1908 and is supposed to be reminiscent of an Italian nobleman's tower. The building also had a practical side as it served for the pouring of lead bullets until the late 1930s. The lead plates were melted at the top of the tower. The lead droplets then fell freely and the laws of physics made them into perfectly rounded buckshot whose special accuracy was legendary among hunters. Today you can visit the tower on a guided tour. As the last of its kind in Berlin and Brandenburg, it is a listed building.
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