Henninger Turm
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The Henninger-Turm ("Henninger tower") is a grain storage silo located in the Frankfurt district of Sachsenhausen. It was built by the Henninger Brewery (now part of the Binding Brewery/Radeberger Group) and has a storage capacity of 16,000 tons of barley. The 120 metres (394 ft), 33-storey high tower was designed by Karl Lieser and was built from 1959 to 1961. Its was inaugurated on May 18, 1961.
The Henninger-Turm has two rotating restaurants at the height of 101 and 106 metres and an open-air observation deck at the height of 110 metres (361 ft). The tower has been closed to the public since October 31, 2002. Plans to destroy the tower and replace it with a new one were abandoned.
Since 1961 every year on May 1 the professional cycling race Rund um den Henninger-Turm is held with a course circling the tower multiple times.
[edit] Henninger Quartier
In January 2005, new plans were unveiled for a conversion of this landmark into residential towers. This includes construction of three 12-storey towers, an 85 metres (279 ft), 20-storey tower, several hundred apartments in lowrise buildings, office space, service facilities, and a hotel.
[edit] See also
- List of towers
- Schapfen Mill Tower, a 115 metre high silo tower near Ulm, Germany
[edit] External links
- Henninger-Turm on Emporis
- Henninger Turm in the Structurae database
- Henninger-Turm on SkyscraperPage
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