Messeturm Köln
The Messeturm Köln (German for Fair Tower Cologne) is a highrise building which is 80 meters high, in Cologne, Germany. Its top floor features a tower restaurant, that has already been closed.
Messeturm, seen from the left river side
The tower gots its name because it was erected besides the fair halls of Cologne. Coated with brickstones the buildings looks equal, but they are not built together. The halls opened with the first fair on May 11th, 1924. The building of the tower has start 1927 and it has opened with a fair on May 12th, 1928. Tower and halls were built on the banks of river Rhine in the borough Köln-Deutz just opposite of Cologne Cathedral.
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