Kähler Tealight House - Tivoli The Japanese Pagode

The Japanese Pagoda was built in 1900 by the architect Knud Arne Petersen, who had just become the director of Tivoli. The tower is built as an illumination tower, i.e. the primary purpose of the tower was to light up Tivoli in the evening, and to reflect beautifully in the lake. Between 1901 and 2009 it was called The Chinese Tower. No one knows why its name was changed, but in a souvenir booklet from 1900 the following can be read: "The next of Tivoli's great new buildings is "The Japanese Pagoda".