List of historic high-rise buildings in Germany

This list of historic high-rise buildings in Germany contains residential, commercial and office buildings ( i.e. no broadcasting or church towers) that are known as high-rise buildings by today's standards and were completed before the Second World War . Since these criteria are not absolutely clear, only the general (professional) assessment can ultimately serve as a final means of selection. Classically, Building 15 from 1915 in Jena is seen as the first high-rise in what is now Germany, but sometimes also the Narva Tower in Berlin-Friedrichshain , which was completed in 1909 .

Most of the early German high-rise buildings were built in the Expressionist style .

building	city	Special features / use	architect	Construction	Opened	Height m	Floors	image
Augsburg City Hall	Augsburg old town	- Renaissance town hall , highest secular building in Germany since 1620 with fully usable storeys; first house in the world with more than six floors upon completion	Elias Holl		1620	57	9
Narva Tower in Oberbaum City	Berlin-Friedrichshain	- The first high-rise in the ensemble in Germany, the original use of the upper floors has not yet been clarified; ten storeys when built	Theodor Kampffmeyer ? Schweger & Partner		1909 1963 2000	42 ? 63	10 (glass cube) 16
Zeiss building 15	Jena	- Germany's first solitary skyscraper	Friedrich Pützer		1915	42	11
Behrensbau	Berlin-Oberschöneweide	- National Automobile Company , later AEG	Peter Behrens		1917	58
Siemensturm	Berlin-Siemensstadt	- Tower of the former Wernerwerk II (measuring device factory), marking Siemensstadt as a district	Hans Hertlein		1918	70.8
Ernemann Tower	Dresden	- elliptical tower top	Emil Högg & Richard Müller	Reinforced concrete	1923	48	10
Wilhelm Marx House	Dusseldorf	- First high-rise in Düsseldorf	Wilhelm Circle	Reinforced concrete	1924	57	12
Industrial building Düsseldorf	Dusseldorf	- Under monument conservation	Tietmann & Haake		1924		9
Chile house	Hamburg	- UNESCO world heritage	Fritz Höger		1924		11
Messberghof	Hamburg	- UNESCO world heritage	Hans and Oskar Gerson		1924		10
Hansa high-rise	Cologne	- First high-rise in Cologne - for a short time the tallest high-rise in Europe	Jacob Koerfer		1925	65	17th
Borsig tower	Berlin	- Example of brick expressionism	Eugen Schmohl	Steel skeleton	1925	65	12
Cammann high-rise	Chemnitz	- First high-rise in Chemnitz	Willy Schönefeld		1925	40	8th
former Knorr-Bremse building	Berlin - Victoriastadt		Alfred Grenander		1927	40	9
Ullsteinhaus	Berlin	- Example of brick expressionism with strong echoes of Gothic architecture	Eugen Schmohl		1927	76	12
Tagblatt Tower	Stuttgart	- First high-rise in Stuttgart	Ernst Otto Oßwald	Exposed concrete	1928	61	18th
Scoreboard high-rise	Hanover		Fritz Höger	Steel skeleton	1928	51	10
Krochhochhaus	Leipzig	- First high-rise in Leipzig - Was initially equipped with a dummy to test the effect of the final height.	German Bestelmeyer	Reinforced concrete	1928	44	12
Postal check office in Wroclaw	Breslau (since 1945 Wrocław, Poland)	- First skyscraper in Europe east of Berlin	Lothar Neumann	Steel skeleton	1929	43	11
Germany House (Essen)	eat	- First high-rise in Essen	Jacob Koerfer		1929	37.4	10
Handelshof (Gera)	Gera	- First high-rise in Gera	Hans Brandt		1929	36	10
Old Technical Town Hall	Munich	- First high-rise in Munich	Hermann Leitenstorfer		1929	45.5	12
Skyscraper on Albertplatz	Dresden		Hermann Paulick	Reinforced concrete frame construction	1929	40	11
Westfalenhaus	Dortmund	- Greatly changed after war destruction	Jacob Koerfer		1929	44 (approx.)	12
Karstadt department store	Berlin		Philipp Schaefer		1929	56 (71 m with light columns)	11
Europahaus (Leipzig)	Leipzig	- Was changed a lot in 1965 (including arcades on the ground floor).	Otto Paul Burghardt	Reinforced concrete frame construction	1929	56	13
Karl Bröger House	Nuremberg	- First high-rise in Nuremberg - Opened as a publishing house for the Franconian Daily Post - 1939 to 1942/43 printing location for the Franconian daily newspaper and the newspaper Der Stürmer - Today the seat of the SPD Nuremberg	Hans Müller , Karl Kröck	Steel skeleton	1930	26.5	7th
Faber skyscraper	Magdeburg	- First high-rise in Magdeburg	Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge		1930	45	11
House border guard	Aachen	- Construction started in the mid-20s by Rudolf Lochner (Architect: Emil Fahrenkamp)	Jacob Koerfer	Reinforced concrete frame construction	1930		11
Wernerwerk high-rise	Berlin		Hans Hertlein		1930	57	14th
Kathreiner high-rise	Berlin		Bruno Paul	Reinforced concrete skeleton	1930	46	12
Office high-rise	Wurzburg	- first high-rise in Würzburg and in Franconia	Christoph Mayer, Franz Kleinsteuber	Reinforced concrete skeleton	1930	33	7th
Union house	Frankfurt am Main	- first high-rise in Frankfurt	Taut & Hoffmann	Steel skeleton	1931	31	9
Capitol (Hanover)	Hanover	- Office and commercial building with a cinema	Friedrich Hartjenstein		1931		10
Hannover City Library	Hanover	- First library tower in Germany - example of brick expressionism	Karl Elkart		1931		10
Europahaus (Berlin)	Berlin		Richard Bielenberg and Josef Moser		1931		12
Stadtsparkasse	Breslau (since 1945 Wrocław, Poland)		Heinrich Rump	Reinforced concrete skeleton	1931	36	10
Columbus House	Berlin		Erich Mendelsohn		1932		10
Main post office head building	Nuremberg	- Changes to the building plans after the Nazis came to power in 1933 - simplified reconstruction after destruction in World War II - demolished in 2018	Johann Kohl (first construction plans 1931), Max Kälberer (redesign 1933)	Steel skeleton	1935	30th	8th
Building 36	Jena		Hans Hertlein and Georg Steinmetz		1935	66	16
Bernhard Rust University (House of Science)	Braunschweig	- First high-rise in Braunschweig	Emil Herzig		1937	45	9

See also

• List of high-rise buildings in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Architektur-Bildarchiv , accessed on March 14, 2014
2. ↑ State monument list Berlin: Narva, building 3
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.