Henninger Turm

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 convert|120|m|ft|0, 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 convert|110|m|ft|0. 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.

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 convert|85|m|ft|0, 20-storey tower, several hundred apartments in lowrise buildings, office space, service facilities, and a hotel.

ee also

*List of towers
*Schapfen Mill Tower, a 115 metre high silo tower near Ulm, Germany

External links

* [http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=109745 Henninger-Turm on Emporis]
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* [http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b765 Henninger-Turm on SkyscraperPage]