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located in the Sachsenhausen-Süd district of

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. It was built by

Henninger Brewery {{more footnotes, date=March 2013 Henninger Brewery was a notable brewery in Frankfurt, Germany. The Henninger brewery in Frankfurt traces its roots to 1655 in Eberhard Stein's brew house. In 1873 Heinrich Christian Henninger, who came from Erlan ...

(now part of the Binding Brewery/Radeberger Group) and had a storage capacity of 16,000 tons of

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. The , 33-

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was designed by

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and was built from 1959 to 1961. It was inaugurated on 18 May 1961. It was demolished in 2013. Until 1974 it was the tallest building in Frankfurt; and it remained the tallest storage silo in the world until its demolition. On top of the building was a barrel-like pod which contained a viewing platform and a revolving restaurant (originally two). In October 2002, the tower was closed to the public. From 1961 to 2008, the annual professional

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Rund um den Henninger-Turm Rund is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cathleen Rund (born 1977), German swimmer * Hanno Rund (1925–1993), German mathematician * Thorsten Rund (born 1976), German road and track cyclist See also * Rand (surname) Rand i ...

'' was held on 1 May, the course circling the tower multiple times.

Neuer Henninger Turm

In November 2012, it was announced that Henninger Turm would be demolished because it was too costly and uneconomic for renovation. Demolition began in January 2013 and was completed by the end of the year. On its site a new tall residential tower was built. Being inspired by the former Henninger Turm, the design was conceived by the architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt. Whereas both the contours and the side facing the city are strongly reminiscent of the original appearance of the old

silo A silo (from the Greek σιρός – ''siros'', "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are used in agriculture to store fermented feed known as silage, not to be confused with a grain bin, which is used t ...

, the three other sides clearly indicate the new building's function as a residential tower. It contains 209 luxury apartments. The cornerstone for this project was laid in June 2014 and the tower was completed in summer 2017. Skyline-sued-ffm004.jpg, Skyline of Frankfurt with the Henninger-Turm Henninger Turm-2005-05-01.jpg, Henninger Turm 2005 Henninger-Turm-Frankfurt-2013-Ffm-367.jpg, Henninger-Turm 2013 Neuer-henningerturm-2017-ffm-2934.jpg, Skyline of Frankfurt with the new Henninger-Turm Neuer-henningerturm-2017-ffm-2936.jpg, The new Henninger-Turm in 2017 Henninger Turm 2018.jpg, The new Henninger-Turm in 2018

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