Built:
1979 - 1982

Architect:
H. Deilmann

Interesting to know:
Totel height (incl. aerial): 234,20 m
Tower base: diameter 17,40 m

The tower is  supported by 260 concrete pillars (11 m each) reaching through the Rhine pebbles into the subsoil.

Revolving restaurant Top 180 at 172 m

Self-service restaurant            at 168 m

Viewing platform                    at 164 m

The port holes on the tower form the world's largest decimal clock. From top to bottom, vertically arranged yellow lights - separated by horizontal red ones - show decades of hours, single hours, decades of minutes, single minutes, decades of seconds and single seconds.