Leverkusen Water Tower
Flyctory.com Pros
- Free entry
- Lovely view over Leverkusen
- One of the most iconic buildings of the city
Flyctory.com Cons
- Rare visiting times
- Strange parking situation
Water towers are not too common in Central Europe, especially in Germany. This is definitely one of the key factor, why the city’s water tower is one of the key icons of the city of Leverkusen I’m living in. On selected summer Sundays, you are able to visit and ride up the tower to enjoy the view on the city. Though the weather was not too ideal – it was quite rainy beforehand – I decided to do so on an August 2019 Sunday morning.



Leverkusen Water Tower – Location & Admission
Leverkusen Water Tower is located in the Bürrig disctrict, right next of Wiesdorf, which you would typically regard to be the center of the city. There are some local bus lines stopping nearby. Alternatively, you may park at the Olof-Palme-Straße, which has sufficient parking lots. The parking lot next to the water tower is unfortunately maintained by a nearby gym. With its total height of 72 meters, the water tower is the tallest building in the city.
There is free admission to the water tower driven by the local energy supply EVL. However, the opening times are very limited. In 2019, you may only get up to the water tower on each first and third Sunday in summer months, i.e. May to September. Opening times are 10:00 to 18:00.
Leverkusen Water Tower – Visit and Exhibition
An elevator takes you up the tower on your visit. The tower is operated by staff of the EVL, who is typically up in the tower. Thus, you can ring a bell and then you are brought upstairs by the staff.

The capacity up in the tower is amazing. The platform has a massive space. There is a small exhibition about energy and water provision. At some windows, there are platforms with pictures of the sights you can see from there.





Leverkusen Water Tower – Some Views from the Tower
The most well-known company in Leverkusen is very likely the chemical giant Bayer, who is also team sponsor of the local soccer club. Leverkusen is rather an industrial city, so that the you nearby typically spot the soccer stadium, the central shopping district or some significant industrial or commercial buildings. However, a bit more far away, there are really nice views of Cologne, Dusseldorf or Bergisch Land.













Though the platform has been designed as a viewing platform, it was very challenging to take pictures at the beginning of my visit. There had been rain before my visit so that the combination of dust and water drops gave a terrible view. However, the exposed position of the tower gives the wind an easy opportunity to dry down the windows significantly.

Leverkusen Water Tower – My View
Being up on the water tower is definitely a special occasion – even more as it is possible to visit it for free. There are better towers in regards of the view, but in general, you see some nice sights. Bad luck that there is an industrial plant right in line between the water tower and Cologne Cathedral. If you happen to be around on one of the open Sundays, you should definitely take some half an hour and enjoy the area from above.
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A zoo which is suitable for the cold and rainy days as well: as you might guess already, Aquazoo Löbbecke ...
There are several causes which make me feel I should go for an album review. When I decided to have ...
Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
There are periodically discussions, whether the Cologne local transport is upgraded by cable car traffic over the river Rhine. However, ...
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
Since late October 2020, restaurants in Germany are not allowed to open as a pandemic lock-down measure. However, take-away services ...
I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
Covid-19 has some weird impacts: as a major German pressing plant had to reduce operation due to the pandemic, a ...
The Deutsches Museum (German Museum for Science and Technology) in Munich is one of the most fascinating places in Germany ...
Cologne Cathedral is the key attraction of my home town Cologne, of course (it is even one of Germany's very ...
50 years of Bläck Fööss - the "naked feet", what is the literal translation of their band name are a ...
After having a couple of hotel reviews from nearby cities Dusseldorf and Bonn already, I felt it was a huge ...
After the Divij Sharan as the last Indian player had bowed out of the tournament the day before, I could ...
Third seeded Dennis Shapovalov (Canada) had a tough time in his Cologne debut appearance: against Gilles Simon (France), he struggled ...
After German Alexander Zverev swept his Australian opponent John Millman in the bett1HULKS Championship 2nd round singles match in the ...
Unfortunately, my work schedule on the Championship week Wednesday was a bit busy, so that I had to rush from ...
German wildcard Dennis Altmaier was almost swept by Belarus qualifier Egor Gerasimov. I just saw the second set - the ...
Right before Sumit Nagal's match against Kecmanovic, I had at least the chance to have a short spot on the ...
Second week in the Cologne LANXESSarena, second tournament: more or less in parallel to the first week tournament victory by ...
After having three doubles matches on the minor Court 1, including Divij Sharan's first round loss, I dared to watch ...
This first round Men's Doubles match on Court 1 was in fact the first match I saw on 14th October ...
I just stayed on the smaller Court 1 after Divij Sharan's 1st round match at the bett1HULKS Indoors in Cologne ...
Due to all the Covid-19 regulations and local restrictions the male tennis ATP Tour set up some new tournaments in ...
After we visited a couple of hotels in Bonn, we finally wanted to check out the only five star one ...
Holidays close to home? Not just due to Covid-19, I felt it to be more and more attractive to have ...
Sometimes, you just have to be creative: if you have one of the biggest mobile ferris wheels in the neighboring ...
In order to have a more comfortable (and longer) sleep, I decided to go for a night at the ibis ...
The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
As I had couple of Spain and Portugal trips planned for summer 2020 and all have been cancelled due to ...
When I read about the collaboration, I knew I just had to do a review of this project: one of ...
They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I ...
During the Covid-19 crisis, I visited quite a couple of drive-in movies, which became a very popular kind of entertainment ...
My birth town Bonn has been hit heavily by Covid-19. The key reason for that are not health issues, but ...
My beloved home town Cologne, Germany, is always a bit of crazy - not just during the carnival days. Thus, ...
After I recently visited the traditional drive-in movie in Cologne and the additional pop-up Car Watch in my home town, 2nd ...
As I wrote in my recent review about the traditional DRIVE IN movies in the South of Cologne, drive-in movies ...
Regarding passenger flights, my hometown airport Cologne / Bonn is only the seventh biggest in Germany, servicing some 12 million ...
Quarantining, social isolation, being unable to go out on a Friday - overall, the cultural and social scene has been ...
Fairy Forests are a quite traditional attraction. Different stages tell you the stories of fairy tales, typically illustrated by puppets ...
A Calculation Museum? Sounds like a place for die-hard nerds - but the Arithmeum in Bonn is really a popular ...
The first Sound of Nashville show of the year - it felt really good to be back close to the ...
Why not doing it at home? Though Bonn is just some 40 kilometers away from our flat, my wife and ...
While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
The Historic Mustard Mill in Cologne ("Historische Senfmühle Köln") is quite a unique place in the million people city. It ...
Right after I returned from Pittsburgh, Sound of Nashville and the German country music scene came back on my schedule ...
Though the Pete Wolf Band just released their second album on 6th December 2019, they are big names in the ...
The Christmas Market in Cologne's Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan "Heinzel's Wintermärchen" (something like Good ...
The Stadtgarten in Cologne is both, a recreational park in the heart of the city, whose facilities are protected, and ...
Cologne Cathedral and a 25 meter high Christmas tree - these are the key ingredients, which turn the Christmas Market ...
I was quite stunned when I ran into an Instagram advertisement: Björn Heuser, a Cologne singer- songwriter just recently released ...
You may know Mönchengladbach (or: Moenchengladbach) for soccer, likely. However, the city hosts one of the most remarkable Star Wars ...
During each festive season, Cologne is crowded with tourists and visitors due to its Christmas markets. There are masses of ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
I have to admit that I had been very nervous before that concert. The LANXESS arena, Germany's largest multiplex arena ...
An eventful debut of the first German Country Music Week presented by Sound of Nashville ended in Cologne with the ...
Though it just processes about a half of the number of passengers of Munich Airport and even just a third ...
While the Sound of Nashville October started big with the the concert of Old Dominion. One day after the big ...
I had a quite unfortunate timing with the debut of the German Country Music week. I missed some shows due ...
As I really enjoyed to listen to Andy Clark's new album I Love Joyce Morris, I was really hoping to manage ...
Before I went to Zons and watched the German interpretation of Rock of Ages at the Zons Open Air Theater, ...
A day after SSF Bonn's ladies home match versus Leipzig/Grimma, I watched the men's team in Holzbüttgen. Sunday Night Floorball ...
Rock of Ages is my favorite musical. At the time of writing, I saw it 30 times, in four countries ...
The Sound of Nashville series of concerts more and more established in the German country music scene. While I visited one ...
The Vulkaneifel region Southwest of Bonn, Germany, is still a quite active vulcanic region. Thus, all around there and in ...
DJK Holzbüttgen close to Dusseldorf and Cologne is an amazing masterpiece of local sports club management. Having started with very ...
The second half of 2019 features a massive lineup of country music stars in Germany. As you can see in ...
Same procedure as last year? Same procedure as every year! The traditional women soccer pre-season test match between my home ...
Solingen, some 30 km Northeast of Cologne, is known as Germany's headquarter of the knife and scissor industry. Thus, it ...
I already visited a couple of stadium tours with Flyctory.com in the past. My home and heart soccer club, 1 ...
Wuppertal in the Bergisches Land region Northeast of Cologne hosts a very special attraction for train and rail enthusiasts: the ...
Did you ever copy a CD from a friend? Plagiarism can be much worse than just bootlegging. The Museum Plagiarius ...
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
At the beginning of April 2019, the floorball seasons worldwide were already about to reach their climax. On 6th April ...
Lindlar, a minor Eastern suburb of Cologne, hosts one of two open-air museums driven by the regional Rhineland authority LVR ...
How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
Bergisch Gladbach, a 110,000 inhabitant city East of Cologne, is a traditional location for the production of paper. While nowadays, ...
Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
One of the key attractions in Ratingen, Northeast of Dusseldorf, is the remarkable Cromford Textile Factory, which is driven by ...
When people think of real "Eau de Cologne", they typically think about the well-branded 4711 brand located in the city's ...
9th September, first matchday of the Men Bundesliga. One of the most interesting teams of the new season is likely ...
There are quite a lot of minor deer and animal parks around Cologne, quite a lot of them mainly based ...
Located North of Cologne, the "Wildpark Tannenbusch" offers a nice way to spent your free time with your family, enjoying ...
Visiting the women soccer pre-season between SV Menden, a team from my home town St. Augustin near Bonn, and the ...
You won't find Patricia Hanebeck in the ranking of the most successful German women soccer players if you you drill ...
Spa Town Bad Münstereifel, suffering from economic problems in their city center, decided to revamp its commercial concept and opened ...
The former German capital Bonn has a vast tradition of open air concerts. Their current premier open air location is ...
The Cologne City Museum's recent history is not really what one would call "lucky". After a water damage in later ...
Sunday, 27th May 2018 - time to slowly head home. After quite a lot of flying, this has really been ...
There are a lot of factors which made me look forward to the first destination of my trip, Tangier in ...
No, I am not going to travel between Europe and Asia or America like a madman or do some extreme ...
Flyctory.com Views from Above
Here are all postings tagged as Views from Above, dealing with any kind up-in-the-air viewpoints:
The Wiener Riesenrad ("Vienna Ferris Wheel") is one of the classic and most famous attractions in the Austrian capital. The original observation ...
Apart from the very inner city center, Stuttgart is a rather hilly German city. On one of their higher elevation, ...
The Bergisel Ski Jumping Hill is definitely one of the most famous and iconic venues in winter sports. Having been ...
The Faroese people call Skansin (liternally: the "redoubt") the most peaceful fort on Earth. In fact, the facility built in 1580 in ...
On my multi-stop drip from Germany to Jakarta in Indonesia, I had one free day on the outbound leg in ...
When it comes to spectacular views over Paris, you typically think of Tour Montparnasse or the Eiffel Tower. However, the ...
After I already introduced you to the Dresden Suspension Cable Railroad (Schwebebahn), it is urgently time to share my other ...
4,354 meters long - the Dajti Ekspres is (by its own marketing) the longest cable car in the Balkan region ...
Yokohama is known for a couple of major industries and its harbor. A nice way of overlooking the city South ...
The ring-shaped Museum of the Future has quickly become one of the most iconic structures in Dubai. Having opened in ...
East Belgium hosts a very iconic building constructed by the domestic pacifist and author Robert Garcet. The Tower of Eben-Ezer ...
Greater Tokyo is a huge area. Commuting in the Japanese capital may easily take more than an hour or two ...
As you know, I am very interested in iconic public transport systems. Thus, I had to visit the Schwebebahn, the suspension ...
Already in July 2023, I introduced yo to the picturesque Gunwharf Quays, a shopping and relaxation district in Portsmouth on ...
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
The black lava beaches of Iceland are one of the must visits to many tourists. One of the most well-known ...
Florida Citrus Tower is somehow an iconic structure in Greater Orlando. On top of that is located right next to ...
Dubrovnik is very often named to be the Pearl of the Adria or the Jewel of the Adria. This is majorly due ...
Even though Heidelberg is a tourist magnet for many reasons, the Heidelberger Bergbahnen (Heidelberg Funiculars) are part of it. They offer you ...
I already introduced you to the very interesting National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. Especially on ...
No doubt, this visit has been one of the touristic highlights of my Pittsburgh Penguins chasing trip in March 2022 ...
Manhattan offers a lot of skyscraper platforms to enjoy the view of New York City. Some of them are or ...
Rockefeller Center is an iconic place in New York City - not only before Christmas, when they put up the ...
Just two weekends before Christmas 2022, I have been to Tirana for the very first time. I was aiming to ...
Observation decks are always a great way to - literally - get an overview of a city or an area ...
Manhattan is somehow the ultimate and maybe best known skyline in the world. Not too surprisingly that all around New ...
Kolossi Castle is one of the key landmarks in Southern Cyprus. The castle has been a stronghold for the Crusaders ...
A lovely combination of beautiful nature in the Pyrenees, interesting historic sights and rather modern shopping districts - I absolutely ...
The Hohensyburg castle is located at a height of 245 meters above sea level in Southern Dortmund in Germany. While the castle ...
Watching Helsinki from a high point - apart from the Olympic Tower, the Helsinki SkyWheel is offering this opportunities to ...
If you follow Flyctory.com for a while, you know that I love the Northern Icelandic city of Akureyri. This posting ...
Okay, I have to give in from the very beginning: I love my home town Cologne - and this my ...
Regardless if you like Dubai or not, you just cannot argue that the landscape around the United Arab Emirates metropolis ...
My trip to the United Arab Emirates in February 2022 majorly lead me to the Northern part of the country ...
I already introduced you to the Visiodrom in Wuppertal, for which a former gasometer has turned into an audiovisual exhibition ...
One of the architectural witnesses of the industrial heritage of the Rhein-Ruhr Region in Germany are definitely the gasometers. These ...
Bellver Castle - or Castell de Bellver - is one of the most iconic places of Palma de Mallorca. The ...
The unique architecture, the significant height of 75 meters and its location on top of the hill right in the ...
Watching Dubai from the (currently) world tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, just feels like one of the biggest must-dos for ...
Exploring the picturesque Old town of Gdansk from above? The most popular (and easiest) method to do so is the ...
Sometimes, iconic attractions don't need to be overwhelmingly large to become really worth a visit. The Grazer Schoßbergbahn / Graz Castle Rail, ...
Even though it hosted the Olympic Summer Games of 1952, Helsinki Olympic Stadium is still in use, e.g. for home ...
Some sort of appetizer what lies ahead: during the next days, I will start covering the Expo 2020 World Exhibition ...
A new attraction for the mega-city Dubai: in October 2021, the new Ain Dubai Ferris wheel finally started operations. Delayed ...
Olivia Star is marketed as Poland's tallest building at the Baltic Sea - and in fact, the 180m high skyscraper ...
240 meters above The Jumeirah Palm in Dubai - The View At The Palm is one of the latest attractions ...
The Ferris wheel right over the North Sea - the SkyView at the Pier in Scheveningen is definitely the most ...
Ain't there a first time Dubai trip without visiting this one? The Burj Khalifa in undoubtedly one of the key ...
It used to be the Millennium Wheel, turned to be the British Airways London Eye and now it is the ...
There are periodically discussions, whether the Cologne local transport is upgraded by cable car traffic over the river Rhine. However, ...
Undoubtedly, Munich Olympic Tower is one of the iconic buildings of the Bavarian city. Even though the tower is located ...
Before the pandemic limitations, One New Change Mall in London has been a really popular place. First of all, it ...
I wouldn't say that I have an intense fear of heights, but I do treat situations, in which I or ...
We did not have too much time in Rotterdam when we visited the region in late August 2020. My wife ...
Similar to the Europarad Ferris Wheel in Cologne, Munich is hosting a giant mobile ferris wheel, which is offering its ...
Sometimes, you just have to be creative: if you have one of the biggest mobile ferris wheels in the neighboring ...
The Elbphilharmonie (Elbe Philharmonic Hall), which has been built between 2007 and 2016 and opened on 11th January 2017, is something like ...
The Rheinturm - or Rhine Tower - is definitely one of Dusseldorf's most iconic viewpoints. During a recent stay at the ...
A view over London from a skyscraper for free, located in a beautiful garden-alike area - and all this even ...
With nearly 310 meters, The Shard close to the South Bank of River Thames is the tallest building of the United ...
When people think about the United Arab Emirates, they typically think of Dubai or Abu Dhabi. During my last trips, ...
Brighton on the Southern English coast is an entertainment wonderland. There are a lot of tourist attractions. Unfortunately, due to ...
While I recently published about my (daytime) experience at 360 Chicago on top of the John Hancock Center, I also ...
The Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi may not be as impressive as Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but therefore the queues ...
Apart from the Skydeck at Willis Tower, Chicago also hosts another viewing point from a higher skyscraper level: From the ...
No visit of the island of Tenerife seems to be complete without visiting the Teide, the volcanic mountain in the ...
Pittsburgh is not only the city of the three rivers and countless bridges - on the southern bank of Monongahela ...
One of Dubai's latest landmark is a gigantic picture frame, the Dubai Frame. It is some 150 meters high and ...
On the third day of my Weird Al Yankovic & Grass Court Tennis trip in July 2019, I had time ...
If you want to see Singapore from above, you likely take the Singapore Flyer. London Eye has been an icon ...
Visiting the world famous twin towers in Kuala Lumpur was likely one of my dreams since they were the world ...
The Singapore Flyer used to be the world tallest ferris wheel from its opening in 2008 to 2014, when it ...
In 2018, the former Coca Cola Orlando Eye ferris wheel rebranded to ICON Orlando as part of the rebranding of ...