List of tallest structures in Frankfurt am Main
This list of tallest structures in Frankfurt am Main includes the tallest buildings within the city limits of Frankfurt am Main . Due to the unusually high number of high-rise buildings in the city, for the sake of clarity these are not included here, but in the list of high-rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main .
No. | Surname | Height in m | Construction year | Building type | Remarks | photo |
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1. | Europaturm | 337.5 | 1979 | Concrete tower | Until the reunification in 1990, the highest building in the Federal Republic; Today's second tallest structure in Germany (without taking into account guyed masts, see list of tallest structures in Germany ) | |
2. | Chimney D582 | 167 | 1979 | stack | The chimney of the thermal power station is the tallest structure in the Höchst industrial park. The color design comes from the industrial designer Friedrich Ernst von Garnier . | |
3. | Henninger Tower | 120 | 1961 | Grain silo | Erected at the headquarters of the Henninger brewery . Highest brewery silo in the world (no longer in use since 2002) and the first building in Frankfurt to be taller than the Dom Tower . At the top there was a revolving restaurant , a viewing platform and the brewery's company museum, none of which had been open to the public since 2004. Demolition of the tower began in January 2013. On June 15, 2014, the construction of a 140 meter high residential high-rise, the New Henninger Tower , began on the Henninger Tower property . | |
4th | Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew | 95 | 1513 | Church building | For almost five hundred years, until the Henninger Tower was built (1960), the cathedral tower was the tallest structure in the city. After a fire in 1867, the upper half was removed and rebuilt according to the original plans. Due to a restoration, the tower was not accessible until August 2010. | |
5. | Dreikönigskirche | 80 | 1880 | Church building | ||
6th | St. Mauritius Church | 75 | 1901 | Church building | ||
8th. | Peterskirche | 68 | 1894 | Church building | ||
7th | DFS Tower Airport | 70 | 2011 | Airport building | ||
9. | Commerzbank Arena | 65 | 2005 | Football stadium | The stadium holds 51,500 spectators. | |
10. | Long Franz | 60 | 1904 | Town hall tower | The current spire is a provisional construction from the post-war period. With the original spire destroyed in the air raids in March 1944, the town hall tower was around 70 meters high. | |
11. | Katharinenkirche | 54 | 1681 | Church building | The Katharinenkirche was destroyed in the Second World War in 1944 and was finally rebuilt from 1950 to 1954. | |
12. | Rödelheim water tower | 51 | 1899 | Water tower | The building was renovated in 2003. | |
13. | Eschenheim Tower | 47 | 1428 | Watchtower | ||
14th | Goethe Tower | 43 | 1931 | Wooden observation tower | Until 1999 the highest publicly accessible wooden building in Germany. On the night of October 12, 2017, it was destroyed by arson. | |
15th | Castle tower Höchst | 14th century | Keep | The tower was given a baroque dome in 1681. | ||
16. | Bertramshof water tower | 1888 | Water tower | Am Steinernen Stock 1, Dornbusch | ||
17th | Eschersheim water tower | 1901 | Water tower | Am Lindenbaum, Eschersheim | ||
18th | Bockenheimer Warte | 1435 | Watch tower | The Gothic building was erected to reinforce the Landwehr and is the landmark of Bockenheim, although it is actually just in the Westend district. | ||
19th | Friedberger waiting | 1478 | Watch tower | |||
20th | Galluswarte | 1414 | Watch tower | Mainzer Landstrasse, Gallus |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=4&id=109618
- ↑ http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0054902
- ↑ http://de.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0014836