List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
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This list of tallest buildings in Frankfurt ranks skyscraper
s and high-rises in the city of Frankfurt
, Germany
by height. The tallest structure in Frankfurt is the Europaturm
, which rises 331 metres (1,086 ft). However, the observation tower is not generally considered a high-rise building as it does not have successive floors that can be occupied. The tallest habitable building in Frankfurt is the Commerzbank Tower
, which rises 259 metres (850 ft) and 56 floor
s. As of October 2011, the structure is the 156th-tallest building in the world, the fifth-tallest building in Europe and the tallest building in the European Union. The second-tallest building in the city is the Messeturm
, which rises 257 metres (843.2 ft) tall and has 55 floors. Nine of the ten tallest buildings in Germany are located in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is one of the few European cities with a large cluster of high rise building in its downtown area; in many other European cities, skyscraper construction was not well received in the past due to the historical value of existing buildings. For this reason, Frankfurt is sometimes referred to as "Mainhattan" (a portmanteau
of the local Main river and Manhattan
), and Chicago
am Main. Most of Frankfurt's downtown area was destroyed by Allied air bombardment during World War II
, and only a small number of the city's landmarks were rebuilt. This left ample room for and little opposition against the construction of modern high-rises in the city. Frankfurt went through a its first high-rise building boom in the 1970s; during this time, the city saw the construction of nine buildings over 110 metres (360.9 ft) tall. From 1984 until 1993, Frankfurt went through another building boom, during which time the city's second-tallest building, Messeturm, and the third-tallest building, Westendstraße 1
, were completed. The city has now 12 buildings which rise at least 150 metres (492.1 ft) in height, more than any other city in Germany. As of October 2011, there are 294 completed high-rises in the city.
Frankfurt entered another building boom in 1997, and has seen the completion of 11 buildings over 100 metres (328.1 ft), e.g. the city's tallest building, Commerzbank Tower, as well as Opernturm
and Tower 185
. There are several proposal and approved plans for new skyscrapers, including Millennium Tower
, 369 metres (1,210.6 ft), MAX, 228 metres (748 ft), Tower 1, 212 metres (695.5 ft), Marieninsel, 210 metres (689 ft) and Bahn Tower, 200 metres (656.2 ft).
As of October 2011, there are 72 high-rise buildings under construction, approved for construction and proposed for construction in Frankfurt.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
s and high-rises in the city of Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
by height. The tallest structure in Frankfurt is the Europaturm
Europaturm
The Europaturm is a 337.5 metre high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.-History:Designed by architect Erwin Heinle, the tower's construction began in 1974. At its completion five years later, it became the tallest free-standing structure in the Federal Republic of Germany...
, which rises 331 metres (1,086 ft). However, the observation tower is not generally considered a high-rise building as it does not have successive floors that can be occupied. The tallest habitable building in Frankfurt is the Commerzbank Tower
Commerzbank Tower
Commerzbank Tower, located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany, is the tallest completed skyscraper in the European Union. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the tallest skyscraper in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow...
, which rises 259 metres (850 ft) and 56 floor
Storey
A storey or story is any level part of a building that could be used by people...
s. As of October 2011, the structure is the 156th-tallest building in the world, the fifth-tallest building in Europe and the tallest building in the European Union. The second-tallest building in the city is the Messeturm
Messeturm
The Messeturm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name translates as "Fair Tower" in German. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt, the second tallest building in Germany. The Messeturm's ground floor area is just . The Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade...
, which rises 257 metres (843.2 ft) tall and has 55 floors. Nine of the ten tallest buildings in Germany are located in Frankfurt.
Frankfurt is one of the few European cities with a large cluster of high rise building in its downtown area; in many other European cities, skyscraper construction was not well received in the past due to the historical value of existing buildings. For this reason, Frankfurt is sometimes referred to as "Mainhattan" (a portmanteau
Portmanteau word
A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a blend of two words or morphemes into one new word. A portmanteau word typically combines both sounds and meanings, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog. More generally, it may refer to any term or phrase that combines two or more meanings...
of the local Main river and Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
), and Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
am Main. Most of Frankfurt's downtown area was destroyed by Allied air bombardment during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, and only a small number of the city's landmarks were rebuilt. This left ample room for and little opposition against the construction of modern high-rises in the city. Frankfurt went through a its first high-rise building boom in the 1970s; during this time, the city saw the construction of nine buildings over 110 metres (360.9 ft) tall. From 1984 until 1993, Frankfurt went through another building boom, during which time the city's second-tallest building, Messeturm, and the third-tallest building, Westendstraße 1
Westendstraße 1
Westendstraße 1 is a well-known skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt. It was completed in 1993 and together with the City Haus, the headquarters of DZ Bank...
, were completed. The city has now 12 buildings which rise at least 150 metres (492.1 ft) in height, more than any other city in Germany. As of October 2011, there are 294 completed high-rises in the city.
Frankfurt entered another building boom in 1997, and has seen the completion of 11 buildings over 100 metres (328.1 ft), e.g. the city's tallest building, Commerzbank Tower, as well as Opernturm
Opernturm
The OpernTurm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. The property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstrasse and Bockenheimer Anlage. The building was designed by Christoph Mäckler. The project developer was Tishman Speyer, a US firm that previously built the Sony...
and Tower 185
Tower 185
Tower 185 is the name of a skyscraper under construction in Frankfurt, Germany. At with 55 floors it will be the fourth tallest building in Germany when it is completed in 2011. It is a commercial office building...
. There are several proposal and approved plans for new skyscrapers, including Millennium Tower
Millennium Tower, Frankfurt
The Millennium Tower is a proposed supertall high-rise building whose completion date is unknown. If ever completed, it would be Europe's tallest tower outside of Moscow. It will be located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and will have a height of with 97 storeys. Thirty percent of the building is...
, 369 metres (1,210.6 ft), MAX, 228 metres (748 ft), Tower 1, 212 metres (695.5 ft), Marieninsel, 210 metres (689 ft) and Bahn Tower, 200 metres (656.2 ft).
As of October 2011, there are 72 high-rise buildings under construction, approved for construction and proposed for construction in Frankfurt.
Tallest buildings
This list contains all structures in Frankfurt which are at least 100 metres (328 ft) tall. The ranking only includes habitable buildings.| Rank | Name | Image | Height m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... / ft |
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| Europaturm Europaturm The Europaturm is a 337.5 metre high telecommunications tower in Frankfurt am Main in Germany.-History:Designed by architect Erwin Heinle, the tower's construction began in 1974. At its completion five years later, it became the tallest free-standing structure in the Federal Republic of Germany... a.k.a Frankfurter Fernsehturm, Ginnheimer Spargel |
331 / 1,086 | 1 | 1979 | Tallest structure in Frankfurt since 1979. Second-tallest free-standing observation tower in Germany, after the Fernsehturm in Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... . |
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| 1 | Commerzbank Tower Commerzbank Tower Commerzbank Tower, located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany, is the tallest completed skyscraper in the European Union. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the tallest skyscraper in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow... a.k.a Commerzbank Headquarters |
259 / 850 | 56 | 1997 | Tallest building in Europe from 1997 to 2003. Tallest building completed in the 1990s. Headquarters of Commerzbank Commerzbank Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.-Activities:Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial bank, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking in early 2000s and scaled back its Securities unit... . |
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| 2 | Messeturm Messeturm The Messeturm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name translates as "Fair Tower" in German. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt, the second tallest building in Germany. The Messeturm's ground floor area is just . The Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade... |
257 / 843 | 55 | 1990 | Tallest building in Europe from 1991 to 1997. Main tenants are Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients... and Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA... . |
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| 3 | Westendstraße 1 Westendstraße 1 Westendstraße 1 is a well-known skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt. It was completed in 1993 and together with the City Haus, the headquarters of DZ Bank... a.k.a. Westend Tower, Crown Tower |
208 / 682 | 53 | 1993 | Headquarters of DZ Bank DZ Bank DZ Bank AG is an acronym for Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftbank . DZ Bank is the fourth largest bank in Germany by asset size and the central institution for more than 900 co-operative banks and their 12,000 branch offices... . |
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| 4= | Maintower Maintower Maintower is a 200 metre skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is named after the river Main. A 40 metre communications tower is mounted atop the building. It features five underground floors, as well as two public viewing platforms. The tower currently remains the only skyscraper in... a.k.a. Helaba |
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200 / 656 | 55 | 1999 | Height including the antenna is 240 metres. Main tenants are Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Helaba Helaba short for Hessische Landesbank Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany... and Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian... . |
| 4= | Tower 185 Tower 185 Tower 185 is the name of a skyscraper under construction in Frankfurt, Germany. At with 55 floors it will be the fourth tallest building in Germany when it is completed in 2011. It is a commercial office building... |
200 / 656 | 55 | 2011 | Newest skyscraper constructed in Frankfurt. Main tenant is PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest professional services firm measured by revenues and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms.... . |
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| 6 | Trianon Trianon (Frankfurt am Main) Trianon is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was completed in 1993, and topped out at 45 storeys. Atop the building is an upside-down pyramid suspended from the three corners. Trianon is currently used by the investment company DEKA as their headquarters, as well as by Linklaters and... |
186 / 610 | 45 | 1993 | Main tenant is DekaBank DekaBank The DekaBank is the central asset manager of the German Sparkassen. Deka as an investment company was founded in 1956. In 1999 it merged with Deutsche Girozentrale , which was founded in 1918... . |
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| 7 | Opernturm Opernturm The OpernTurm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. The property is situated opposite Alte Oper on the corner of Bockenheimer Landstrasse and Bockenheimer Anlage. The building was designed by Christoph Mäckler. The project developer was Tishman Speyer, a US firm that previously built the Sony... |
170 / 551 | 42 | 2010 | Main tenant is UBS. | |
| 8 | Silver Tower, formerly known as Dresdner Bank Headquarters | 166 / 545 | 32 | 1978 | Tallest building in Frankfurt and Germany from 1978 to 1991. Former headquarters of Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank Dresdner Bank AG was one of Germany's largest banking corporations and was based in Frankfurt. It was acquired by competitor Commerzbank in December 2009.- 19th century :... which merged with Commerzbank in 2009. Main tenant is now Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany... . |
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| 9 | Plaza Büro Center Plaza Büro Center The Plaza Büro Center is a 523ft tall 47 story skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. When it was built in 1976 it was the tallest building in Germany until it was passed by the Silver Tower in 1978. The building is located at the north end of Frankfurt's principal skyline, across from the Messe. It... |
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159 / 522 | 47 | 1976 | Main tenant is Marriott Marriott Hotels & Resorts Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's flagship brand of full service hotels and resorts. The company, based in Washington D.C., is repeatedly included on the Forbes Best Companies to Work for list, and was voted the 4th best company to work for in the UK by The Times in 2009.As of... Frankfurt Hotel. |
| 10= | Deutsche Bank I Deutsche Bank Twin Towers The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers consists of two skyscrapers that are each 155 meters high. They are also called debit and credit , or German bank called Twin Towers I and II. It is the headquarters of Deutsche Bank Group, located in the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany... |
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155 / 509 | 40 | 1984 | Tallest twin towers in Frankfurt, also tallest building completed in the 1980s. Headquarters of Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets... . |
| 10= | Deutsche Bank II Deutsche Bank Twin Towers The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers consists of two skyscrapers that are each 155 meters high. They are also called debit and credit , or German bank called Twin Towers I and II. It is the headquarters of Deutsche Bank Group, located in the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany... |
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155 / 509 | 38 | 1984 | Tallest twin towers in Frankfurt, also tallest building completed in the 1980s. Headquarters of Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets... . |
| 12 | Skyper Skyper Skyper, a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main’s banking district, is one of three buildings that together form the Skyper ensemble. With 39 floors and an overall height of 154 metres, it is the 12th largest building in Germany... |
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154 / 505 | 38 | 2004 | Main tenant is DekaBank DekaBank The DekaBank is the central asset manager of the German Sparkassen. Deka as an investment company was founded in 1956. In 1999 it merged with Deutsche Girozentrale , which was founded in 1918... . |
| 13 | Eurotower Eurotower (Frankfurt) The Eurotower is a skyscraper located in the Bankenviertel of Frankfurt, Germany.The tower is tall, with 40 floors and 78.000 m² of office space... |
148 / 486 | 39 | 1977 | Headquarters of the European Central Bank European Central Bank The European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt,... . The ECB is currently building new and larger headquarters (European Central Bank Headquarters). |
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| 14= | Frankfurter Büro Center Frankfurter Büro Center The Frankfurt Büro Center is a skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt. The 142 meter high building stands on the Mainzer Landstrasse in the middle of a string of high-rises, which draws from the Republic Square to Opera Square... |
142 / 467 | 40 | 1980 | Main tenant is Clifford Chance Clifford Chance Clifford Chance LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading UK law firms. It is one of the ten largest law firms in the world measured by both number of lawyers and revenue... . |
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| 14= | City-Haus City-Haus The 142 meter high City-Haus is located in the Westend district in Frankfurt am Main at the Republic Square. It was constructed from 1971 to 1974 and designed by architects John Krahn and Richard Heil.- History :... |
142 / 466 | 42 | 1974 | Main tenant is DZ Bank DZ Bank DZ Bank AG is an acronym for Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftbank . DZ Bank is the fourth largest bank in Germany by asset size and the central institution for more than 900 co-operative banks and their 12,000 branch offices... . |
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| 16 | Gallileo Gallileo Gallileo is a 446ft tall skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. It was constructed from 1999 to 2003 and has 38 floors. It has 49,000 m² of floor space and is the 14th tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt. Its name is an intentional misspelling of the scientist Galileo's name; the extra l comes from the... |
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136 / 446 | 38 | 2003 | Main tenant is Commerzbank Commerzbank Commerzbank AG is the second-largest bank in Germany, after Deutsche Bank, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.-Activities:Commerzbank is mainly active in commercial bank, retail banking and mortgaging. It suffered reversals in investment banking in early 2000s and scaled back its Securities unit... . |
| 17 | Nextower PalaisQuartier The PalaisQuartier is a building project in the city centre of Frankfurt. It is located on an approximately downtown area between the shopping area Zeil and the historic Eschenheim Tower, and has four components: The MyZeil shopping mall, a 135-metre high office tower, the 96 metres high Jumeirah... |
135 / 446 | 34 | 2010 | ||
| 18 | Pollux | 130 / 427 | 33 | 1997 | ||
| 19 | Garden Towers Garden Towers The Garden Towers is a high-rise building in the city of Frankfurt which was built in 1976 to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen . Known as Helaba-Hochhaus, it was one of the first skyscrapers in Frankfurt's banking district. In 2005 it was opened after a nuclear reorganization under a new name again... |
127 / 417 | 25 | 1976 | ||
| Henninger Turm Henninger Turm The Henninger-Turm is a grain storage silo located in the Frankfurt district of Sachsenhausen. It was built by the Henninger Brewery and has a storage capacity of 16,000 tons of barley. The , 33-story high tower was designed by Karl Lieser and was built from 1959 to 1961... |
120 / 394 | 33 | 1961 | Tallest structure completed in Frankfurt in the 1960s. | ||
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117 / 384 | 30 | 1985 | |
| 21 | AfE-Turm AfE-Turm The AfE Tower is a 116 metre tall skyscraper in Frankfurt. It belongs to the campus Bockenheim the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and houses the offices and seminar rooms of the departments of Social Sciences and Education... |
116 / 382 | 32 | 1972 | ||
| 22= | Japan Center Japan Center The Japan Center is a skyscraper in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. The 115 meter high office tower with 27 floors was completed in 1996.The building was designed by Berlin architect Joachim Ganz and cost approximately 200 million Euros... |
115 / 377 | 27 | 1996 | ||
| 22= | Parktower Parktower The Park Tower is a skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt. It was built in 1972 as the administrative headquarters of the Southwest German Co-operative Bank . The then 96-metre high building with a black and silver facade was briefly the tallest skyscraper in Frankfurt... |
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115 / 377 | 29 | 1972 | Main tenant is Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is a global law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom and a member of the 'Magic Circle' of leading English law firms. It is the second-largest law firm in the world measured by revenues. In 2010-11 it achieved total revenues of £1.14 billion and profits... . |
| 24 | IBC Tower | 112 / 367 | 30 | 2003 | ||
| 25 | Eurotheum Eurotheum The Eurotheum is a skyscraper in the city center of Frankfurt. It was built to coincide with the neighbouring Maintower and was completed in 1999.... |
110 / 361 | 31 | 1999 | ||
| 26 | Büro Center Nibelungenplatz Büro Center Nibelungenplatz The Büro Center Nibelungenplatz is a skyscraper in Frankfurt. The 1966-constructed building was one of the first completed building on 50 meter-high towers in Frankfurt, and to this day with 110 meters the tallest building in the suburb of Northrend.- Location :The skyscraper is located at... |
110 / 361 | 27 | 1966 | ||
| 27= | Westhafen Tower Westhafen Tower Westhafen Tower is a skyscraper in the Gutleutviertel district of Frankfurt. The building, which has a height of 109 metres, was designed by the architects Schneider & Schumacher and was completed in 2004... |
109 / 357 | 31 | 2003 | Main tenant is the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) | |
| 27= | Neue Mainzer Straße 32-36 | 109 / 357 | 28 | 1973 | Main tenant is the European Central Bank European Central Bank The European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt,... due to lack of space in the bank's headquarters Eurotower Eurotower (Frankfurt) The Eurotower is a skyscraper located in the Bankenviertel of Frankfurt, Germany.The tower is tall, with 40 floors and 78.000 m² of office space... . |
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| 29 | Holiday Inn Frankfurt City-South | 104 / 341 | 25 | 1972 |
Under construction
| Name | Image | Height m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... / ft |
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| European Central Bank Headquarters | 185 / 607 | 45 | 2014 | Construction work started in early 2010 and is expected to be finished by early 2014. | |
| Taunusturm Taunusturm Taunusturm is the project name for a complex of two buildings, a 170-metres skyscraper and a 60-metres high-rise residential building, currently under construction in Frankfurt, Germany. The construction site is located in Frankfurt's financial district, the Bankenviertel, at the corner of Neue... |
170 / 558 | 40 | 2013 | Construction work started in April 2011 and is expected to be finished by December 2013. | |
Announced
| Name | Height m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... / ft |
Floors | Year* (est.) |
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| Grand Hyatt Hotel | 113 / 374 | 30 | Construction should begin 2011 | |
| WinX Tower | 110 / 361 | 29 | 2015 | Construction should begin 2012. There is currently clearing work taking place (October 2011). |
Proposed (Samples)
| Name | Height m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... / ft |
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| Millennium Tower Millennium Tower, Frankfurt The Millennium Tower is a proposed supertall high-rise building whose completion date is unknown. If ever completed, it would be Europe's tallest tower outside of Moscow. It will be located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and will have a height of with 97 storeys. Thirty percent of the building is... |
369 / 1,211 | 97 | ||
| MAX | 228 / 748 | 64 | ||
| Tower 1 | 212 / 696 | 51 | ||
| Marieninsel | 210 / 820 | 68 | ||
| Bahn Tower | 200 / 656 | |||
| Hochhauskomplex Neue Mainzer Straße | 197 / 646 | 55 | ||
| DZ Bank Tower | 175 / 574 | |||
| Metzler Bank Tower | 175 / 574 | 44 | ||
| Hochhaus Güterplatz | 160 / 525 | 45 | ||
Timeline of tallest buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Frankfurt.| Name | Years as tallest | Height m Metre The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology... / ft |
Floors | Reference |
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| Frankfurt Cathedral Frankfurt Cathedral Saint Bartholomeus's Cathedral is a Gothic building located in Frankfurt, Germany.Frankfurt Cathedral is the main church of Frankfurt and was constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries on the foundation of an earlier church from the Merovingian time... |
1248–1961 | 95 / 310 | 1 | |
| Henninger Turm Henninger Turm The Henninger-Turm is a grain storage silo located in the Frankfurt district of Sachsenhausen. It was built by the Henninger Brewery and has a storage capacity of 16,000 tons of barley. The , 33-story high tower was designed by Karl Lieser and was built from 1959 to 1961... |
1961–1974 | 120 / 394 | 33 | |
| City-Haus City-Haus The 142 meter high City-Haus is located in the Westend district in Frankfurt am Main at the Republic Square. It was constructed from 1971 to 1974 and designed by architects John Krahn and Richard Heil.- History :... |
1974–1976 | 142 / 466 | 42 | |
| Plaza Büro Center Plaza Büro Center The Plaza Büro Center is a 523ft tall 47 story skyscraper in Frankfurt, Germany. When it was built in 1976 it was the tallest building in Germany until it was passed by the Silver Tower in 1978. The building is located at the north end of Frankfurt's principal skyline, across from the Messe. It... |
1976–1978 | 159 / 522 | 47 | |
| Silver Tower Silver Tower Silver Tower is a 166 metre high-rise in Frankfurt, Germany built by Bilfinger Berger between 1975 and 1978... |
1978–1990 | 166 / 545 | 32 | |
| MesseTurm Messeturm The Messeturm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name translates as "Fair Tower" in German. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt, the second tallest building in Germany. The Messeturm's ground floor area is just . The Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade... |
1990–1997 | 257 / 843 | 55 | |
| Commerzbank Tower Commerzbank Tower Commerzbank Tower, located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany, is the tallest completed skyscraper in the European Union. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the tallest skyscraper in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow... |
1997–present | 259 / 850 | 56 | |
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Germany
- List of tallest buildings in the European Union
- List of tallest buildings in Europe
External links
- Frankfurt Skyscraper Map
- Diagram of Frankfurt skyscrapers on SkyscraperPage.com