Blue skyscraper
The blue skyscraper in Schweinfurt (in earlier times also SKF skyscraper because of the company apartments ; nicknames: Blauer Klaus or Blue Thumb ) in the district of Hochfeld / Steinberg , district of Steinberg, is a residential high-rise, completed in 1964, with 25 storeys and a height of 73 meters (excluding Antenna). It is the tallest skyscraper in the city and in Lower Franconia . At first it was the tallest residential tower in Germany.
history
The Swedish ball bearing factories (SKF) have their German headquarters in Schweinfurt. Under the aegis of the General Director of the German SKF, the Swede Gunnar Wester , SKF experienced its greatest boom in Schweinfurt, with up to 12,000 employees in the 1960s - far more than at the main plant in Gothenburg . Wester also demonstrated this strength of the Schweinfurt SKF with buildings (see: Schweinfurt, Profanbauten ). He had the blue skyscraper built in the color of the SKF logo with company apartments. The first groundbreaking took place on July 20, 1962 and in September 1964 the first tenants moved in. When it was completed in 1964, the 73 m high blue skyscraper was 5 m higher than the tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main to be completed , the Zurich House . The blue skyscraper was also the tallest residential building in Germany in 1964, until a few years later the Langen Johann in Erlangen exceeded it by two storeys.
The original company apartments in the Blue Tower were converted into owner-occupied apartments at the end of 1982 under the management of Sparkasse Schweinfurt .
description
The blue skyscraper has 24 standard floors (ground floor and 23 upper floors) and a penthouse-like floor (24th floor) and has 121 apartments with areas of 70 to 100 m². It was built on what was then the highest built-up area in the city, at 277 m above sea level. NN erected. The top of the building (without antennas) is 350 m above sea level. NN. On the roof of the high-rise there is a transmitting antenna for broadcasting the Radio Primaton program on 100.5 MHz with 500 W ERP.
From the upper floors of the building, which is not accessible to the public, you can see the Kreuzberg in the Rhön (928 m) in full. If the visibility is good, the transmitter masts of the Frankenwarte in Würzburg and the entire ridge of the Steigerwald , with a view of all three Franconian administrative districts.
Web links
- Video: Camera panning from the Blue Skyscraper 2015 (0:45 min.)
- Newspaper article about the 50th anniversary. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.mainpost.de/regional/schweinfurt/Schweinfurt-im-20- Jahrhundert; art742,10330182
- ↑ City map Schweinfurt and surrounding communities in cooperation with the city planning office Schweinfurt. Verlag Weppert GmbH & Co., Schweinfurt 2003
- ↑ fmscan.org: Schweinfurt-Hochfeld FM transmitter info. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 46.6 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 41.4" E