Revolving restaurant
A revolving restaurant is a rotatable restaurant that is moved by means of electric motors via a gearbox . The guests can view the complete 360 ° panorama during their stay without having to leave their seat . Revolving restaurants are mostly located on towers or other tall buildings ( tower restaurant ) or on mountain peaks . On towers they are usually housed in the tower cage . The speed of rotation is usually one to three revolutions per hour.
history
The revolving restaurant in the Florian Tower , a viewing and television tower in Dortmund , went into operation in 1959, making it the oldest in the world. The two-storey revolving restaurant (café and restaurant) opened on the Danube Tower in Vienna in 1964 was the first in which the glass façade rotates with it, thus enabling an unobstructed view without parts of the wall rotating past.
As early as the 1st century AD, a rotating dining room is said to have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome in the palace Domus Aurea of Emperor Nero . French archaeologists found the remains of a circular building, the rotunda was probably that Suetonius in his imperial biographies had described: "The main dining room was a rotunda that is turned around in a continuous day and night as the universe." ( Suetonius : Vita Neronis XXXI ) The archaeologists suspect that the round building with a diameter of 16 meters contained a wooden frame that was supported by a central pillar.
In April 2017, a child was fatally injured in the revolving restaurant of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta when it got caught between fixed and moving parts without the system shutting down as intended.
List of revolving restaurants
Germany
| City / place | state | Tower / building | Height of restaurant (above ground) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aachen |
 North Rhine-Westphalia |
Belvedere water tower | 30 m |
| Bad Marienberg |
 Rhineland-Palatinate |
Wildlife Park Hotel | 20 m |
| Berlin |
 Berlin |
Television tower | 207 m |
| Dusseldorf |
North Rhine-Westphalia |
Rhine tower | 175 m |
| Hofheim am Taunus |
 Hesse |
Vital Hotel in the Rhein-Main-Therme | no information |
| Mannheim |
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Telecommunications tower | 125 m |
| Munich |
 Bavaria |
Olympic Tower | 182 m |
| Erbendorf -Pfaben |
Bavaria |
Hotel Steinwaldhaus | 5 m |
| City / place | state | Tower / building | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfurt am Main |
Hesse |
Henninger Tower | 2 revolving restaurants, closed in 2002, demolished in 2013 |
| Dortmund |
North Rhine-Westphalia |
Florian Tower | closed since 2015 |
| Frankfurt am Main |
Hesse |
Europaturm | Closed in 1999 |
| Hamburg |
 Hamburg |
Heinrich Hertz Tower | Closed in 2001 |
| Cologne |
North Rhine-Westphalia |
Colonius | Closed in 1992 |
| Nuremberg |
Bavaria |
Telecommunications tower | Closed in 1991 |
Austria
| City / place | state | Tower / building | Height of restaurant (above ground) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna |
 Vienna |
Danube Tower | 160 m, 170 m |
Switzerland
| City / place | Canton | Tower / building | mountain | Height (mountain) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brülisau / Altstätten |
 Appenzell Innerrhoden |
Revolving restaurant | High chest | 1795 m |
| Leysin |
 Vaud |
Kuklos | La Berneuse | 2045 m |
| Murren |
 Bern |
Piz Gloria | Schilthorn | 2970 m |
| Saas Fee |
 Valais |
Threes! Xty , mountain station of the Metro Alpin | Mittelallalin | 3456 m |
| Stans |
 Nidwalden |
Rondorama | Stanserhorn | 1898 m |
Other countries
literature
- Chad Randl (Author), Dorothy Ball (Ed.): Revolving Architecture. A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot . Princeton Architectural Press, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-56898-681-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Largest revolving restaurant. In: Guinness World Records. January 1, 2009, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ↑ City of Dortmund a. Central connection d. German vegetable, fruit u. Gartenbaues (Ed.): The green Dortmund: a guide through the Federal Garden Show 1959 . Westphalian printing, Dortmund 1959, p. 23 .
- ↑ Suetonius: Nero (26-32), special traits and behavior. Sexual behavior. Handling money. In: gottwein.de. Retrieved on January 13, 2016 (text with German translation): "praecipua cenationum rotunda, quae perpetuo diebus ac noctibus vice mundi circumageretur"
- ↑ Archeology: The first revolving restaurant in the world . In: GEO . tape 12 , 2009, ISSN 0342-8311 ( angelika-franz.net ).
- ^ Death in rotating restaurant: Parents sue after boy's skull crushed in Atlanta hotel - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In: abc.net.au. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
- ^ Parents Sue After Boy's Skull Crushed in Rotating Restaurant - Time. (No longer available online.) In: time.com. Archived from the original on November 21, 2017 ; accessed on November 21, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Atlanta Sun Dial death: Family of boy crushed in rotating restaurant sues - CNN. In: edition.cnn.com. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
- ↑ 360 ° revolving restaurant. In: Wildpark Hotel. Retrieved January 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Peter Kolar: SPD parliamentary group informs itself about the situation in Rhein-Main-Therme. In: Wiesbadener Kurier from August 10, 2017 (digital: http://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/ (accessed on 03.03.18) )
- ^ Eva Krötz: Upper Palatinate Forest: Bohemian Forest · Ceský Les 50 Tours , p. 115. ( [1] )
