Messeturm Köln

The Messeturm Köln (German for Fair Tower Cologne) is a highrise building which is 80 meters high,[1] in Cologne, Germany. It is crowned by the sculpture Hermes-Gesichter[2] (German for Faces of Hermes) by Hans Wissel, professor for sculpture and plastic arts at the Kölner Werkschulen. The tower's top floor featured a tower restaurant (now closed).

Messeturm, seen from the left river side

The tower got 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 started in 1927 and it 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.

References
  1. https://www.prinzpartner.de/project/entwicklungskonzept-einer-umnutzung-messeturm-koeln/ (in German); according to other sources the architectual height is 85 meters (to the top, including the sculpture), 70 meters to the roof, see: https://www.emporis.de/buildings/109575/messeturm-cologne-germany (in German)
  2. https://architekturfuehrer.koeln/spaziergaenge/rheinboulevard-deutz/5 (in German)


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