Water services in Essen
These are the places Fontavio has mapped in Essen, not a municipal total. Coverage grows as people add places and confirm the ones already there.
The most popular of them
- Drinking water Potable
- Drinking water Otto-Wels-Platz Potable
- Drinking water Katernberger Markt Potable
- Drinking water Hauptstraße 82 Potable
- Drinking water Frohnhauser Platz 2 Potable
- Drinking water Potable
- Drinking water Kupferdreher Markt 10 Potable
- Drinking water Winkhausstraße 1 Potable
- Drinking water Kaiser-Otto-Platz 22 Potable
- Drinking water Rüttenscheider Straße 97 Potable
- Drinking water Werdener Markt 2 Potable
- Drinking water Potable
- Drinking water Auf der Knappe Potable
- Drinking water Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 406 Potable
- Drinking water Kennedyplatz 9 - 11 Potable
- Drinking water Rühlestraße Potable
- Drinking water Potable
- Toilets
- Toilets Schultenweg
- WC Toilets Willy-Brandt-Platz 8 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Goethestraße
- Toilets Sunderlandstraße 3
- Toilets Karnaper Straße
- Toilets Frillendorfer Straße 132 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Am Hauptbahnhof 9 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Porscheplatz 2 Wheelchair accessible
- WC-Center Toilets Berliner Platz Wheelchair accessibleChanging table
- Essen Hbf Toilets Am Hauptbahnhof 9 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Am Hauptbahnhof 5 Wheelchair accessibleChanging table
- Toilets
- Toilets Porscheplatz 86 Wheelchair accessibleChanging table
- Toilets Dahlhauser Straße 142
- Toilets Lührmannstraße 123
- Toilets
- Toilets Grugaweg
- Toilets Kopstadtplatz 8 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Werdener Straße 101
- Toilets Katernberger Markt 1 Wheelchair accessible
- Toilets Fulerumer Straße
- Bürgertoilette Toilets
- Toilets Ernestinenstraße 267
- Toilets Buderusstraße 15
This page lists the 42 most visited of the 176 places mapped in Essen, and the map beside it shows the same 42. The Fontavio app has all 176.
Hours and price come from contributors and operators, and they can be out of date. Report anything that has changed.
Data checked 8 October 2026
42 places plotted, from OpenStreetMap and Fontavio contributors.
Water services in Essen
Fontavio maps public drinking water, fill-up taps, toilets, showers, laundry, dump stations and marine pump-outs in Essen, from open map data and from the people using them.
Add a place we are missingDoes this page cover all of Essen?
It covers every category Fontavio has enough mapped places for in Essen today. A category appears here once enough places in it have been added and confirmed, so a missing one means thin coverage rather than nothing on the ground.
What if a place has moved or is gone?
Report it from the app. A person reviews it, and water-safety reports are looked at first.
Is the tap water safe to drink in Germany?
Yes. Germany's Federal Environment Agency rates water from the large supplies as very good, with more than 99.9% of monitored samples meeting nearly every microbiological and chemical requirement. WHO and UNICEF put safely managed drinking water at 99.9% for 2024. Figures, sources and the dates they were checked: https://fontavio.com/germany/tap-water/
Is the water from a public tap or fountain the same as the tap water in Germany?
Not necessarily. Old pipes affect an outdoor tap just as much as a kitchen one, so a tap on the wall of an old building can give different water from a brand-new Trinkbrunnen on the same street. Ornamental fountains aren't for drinking, and some say so with a kein Trinkwasser sign. Look for a sign and check the spout before you drink. If you find a Trinkbrunnen that's running, add it to Fontavio or review it. New ones go in every year, and plenty of people don't know where they are.
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