Boniface Towers

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Boniface Towers
Boniface Towers
The Bonifazius Towers in Mainz. Here with an advertising banner for the 100th anniversary of FSV Mainz 05
Basic data
Place: Mainz
Construction time : 1976-1977
Opening: 1978
Status : Built
Architectural style : Modern
Coordinates : 50 ° 0 '11.5 "  N , 8 ° 15' 34.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '11.5 "  N , 8 ° 15' 34.8"  E
Bonifazius Towers (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Boniface Towers
Use / legal
Usage : High-rise office building
Owner : Bonifazius Property BV
Property management : INTOWN Property Management GmbH
Technical specifications
Height : 94.7 m each
Floors : 24 each
Usable area : a total of 34,000 m²
Floor area : Tower A: 562 m²
Tower B: 579 m² m²
Building material : Reinforced concrete , steel , glass and aluminum
Height comparison
Mainz : 1. ( list )
Germany : 99. ( list )
address
Address: Rhabanusstrasse 1 & 3
Post Code: 55118
City: Mainz
Country: Germany

The Bonifazius Towers are the two tallest buildings in the Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz . The twin towers are located near the main train station . The name comes from the St. Boniface Church right next to it .

building

Bonifazius Towers, view from the south over the main station and Bahnhofplatz

Both towers contain individual , team and open- plan offices and are used by various companies. The "Anna Seghers Public Library" is also located there. There is a public parking garage in the basement . They were built on Anna-Seghers-Platz, the development of which goes back to Aenne Ley .

history

The first plans for today's Bonifazius Towers date back to 1971. Initially, the construction of a 130 meter high, individual tower was planned. After protests from the Mainz population, this plan was abandoned in favor of two towers, which were also only 100 meters high . Construction work on the towers began in autumn 1975 and was completed around a year later. In 1978 the Bonifazius Towers opened.

The towers were formerly the headquarters of the IBH Holding . Before that they were the headquarters of the central sales office of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Bahn AG from 1994. From here the marketing and sales of the passenger and freight traffic of the Deutsche Bahn was controlled. After the demand had temporarily decreased and Tower A was vacant between 1998 and 2007, the space has been almost completely rented since the 2010s.

Tower A

Address: Rhabanusstraße 3, geographical location: 50 ° 0 ′ 11.5 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 34.8 ″  E

The President's Office of the University of Koblenz-Landau has been located on floors 18 to 21 of Tower A since June 2012. Since April 2016, the ARD and ZDF funk youngsters are located on the 22nd floor. In addition, the Office for Traffic Monitoring of the Mainz City Administration is located in Tower A.

Tower B

Address: Rhabanusstraße 1, geographical location: 50 ° 0 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 32.5 ″  E

In the B tower, the aluminum windows can be opened up to the ninth floor. The Sparda-Bank Südwest has a branch in Tower B.

Flight of stairs

On November 22nd, 2004 the first Mainz stair run took place. The fastest participant made it up the 600 or so steps to the 24th floor and back down in 4:24 minutes.

Parking garage

Under the towers there is a round-the-clock multi-storey car park near the city center in Mainz with 450 parking spaces and five disabled parking spaces . The entrance height is 1.9 meters.

Broadcasting station

There is a transmitting antenna for VHF radio on the roof of one of the two towers. The following programs are broadcast:

Trivia

  • On October 9, 2007, the towers were the location for the Sat.1 broadcast: Only love counts .
  • The exhibition # watch22 , May 8 to June 7, 2015, 22nd floor in Tower A. "Data protection, art and culture" with various events also in other locations in Mainz

Web links

Commons : Boniface Towers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on skyscrapercenter.com
  2. ^ Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG: New youth channel from ARD and ZDF moves into headquarters on the 22nd floor of the Bonifaziustürme in Mainz. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Information on the traffic surveillance office on the website of the state capital Mainz
  4. ↑ Branch overview of Sparda-Bank Südwest
  5. ↑ pmg parking garage Bonifazius-Türme
  6. ↑ http://www.watch22.de