Eurotower
| Eurotower | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: |
Kaiserstraße 29, Frankfurt city center |
| Construction time : | 1971-1977 |
| Architect : | Richard Heil |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | High-rise office building, bank |
| Owner : | TRIUVA Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH |
| Main tenant: | originally BfG , today ECB |
| Client : | House company at Theaterplatz |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 148.0 m |
| Floors : | 40 |
| Floor area : | 78,000 m² |
| Construction: | Reinforced concrete skeleton with aluminum and glass facade |
| Height comparison | |
| Frankfurt am Main : | 13. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 15. ( list ) |
| address | |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Country: | Germany |
The Euro Tower is a known high-rise building in the city of Frankfurt am Main . The 148 meter high building was first moved into in 1977 by the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG). From 1998 until the move to the new ECB headquarters in 2014, the building was the seat of the European Central Bank (ECB). The Eurotower is the seat of the Single Banking Supervision Mechanism (SSM) of the ECB.
Location and history
The 40-storey building, formerly known as the BfG high-rise , was designed by Richard Heil and Johannes Krahn and moved into in 1977. The user was the union's own bank for common economy (BfG). The building was later taken over by the European Monetary Institute , which became the European Central Bank on June 1, 1998.
Like the opera and theater of the Städtische Bühnen, the high-rise stands on Willy-Brandt-Platz (Kaiserstraße 29) and takes up an entire block of streets. The other delimiting streets are Kaiserstraße , Neue Mainzer Straße, lined with numerous high-rise buildings, and Gallusanlage, part of the Frankfurt Wallanlagen .
The BfG high-rise was the first high-rise in Frankfurt that was accessible to the public, at least in the basement. Up until the 1990s there was a shopping center on the lower three floors with direct access to the Theaterplatz underground station (today: Willy-Brandt-Platz underground station ). After the then BfG-Bank moved into a new high-rise building, the Eurotower was converted for the ECB in 1995/96. The unprofitable retail space of the previous shopping center was reduced to a few shops facing the street and a passage to the underground station. Later these areas were also used by the ECB. Since then, the house has 46,600 m² of usable space. From 1994 to 2007 it belonged to an open real estate fund of the Dresdner Bank subsidiary DEGI . It was then sold to the New York-based RFR Holding for 430 million euros.
Until 2014, there was an ECB information office on the ground floor, where Euro fan articles could also be bought.
The larger space required by the European Central Bank could no longer be covered with the available space in downtown Frankfurt, so that in November 2014 the headquarters moved to the new building of the European Central Bank on the Großmarkthalle in Ostend .
After a renovation, the building has been used by European banking regulators since the end of 2015 .
At the end of 2018, the Taiwanese insurance company Fubon Life acquired the high-rise for 530 million euros.
Eurotower (center) in the banking district
Eurotower, behind it the municipal stages
Moving van in front of the Eurotower, reflected in its facade. Extract from the European Central Bank
literature
- Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt : Architecture Guide Frankfurt am Main / Architectural Guide . 3. Edition. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-496-01236-6 , p. 57 (German, English).
- Peter Cachola Schmal, Ingeborg Flagge: The New Building of the European Central Bank / The New Premises of the European Central Bank. International Architectural Competition / International Architecture Competition. Birkhäuser Architektur, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7205-2 (German and English).
See also
Web links
- Entry via Eurotower at Emporis
- Eurotower. In: Structurae
- Eurotower at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- Eurotower at thehighrisepages
- Homepage of the European Central Bank
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eurotower at CTBUH
- ↑ Press release from the ECB on the location decision for banking supervision
- ↑ Eurotower at Emporis
- ↑ Relocation to the new building: The ECB fits in 20,000 boxes. In: Spiegel Online. November 1, 2014, accessed November 11, 2014 .
- ↑ The Eurotower is being made beautiful for banking supervision. In: Journal Frankfurt. April 17, 2015, accessed April 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Taiwanese buy Eurotower for around 530 million euros Thomas Daily, December 28, 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 35 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 27 ″ E