Oderturm Explained

Building Name:Der Oderturm
Location:Logenstraße
Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany
Coordinates:52.3423°N 14.5518°W
Completion Date:1968 – 1976
Building Type:Commercial offices
Architectural Style:Modernism
Antenna Spire:95m (312feet)
Roof:89m (292feet)
Floor Count:24
Floor Area:41000m²
Architect:Paul Teichmann
Hans Tulke
References:[1]

Der Oderturm is a 24-storey, 89m (292feet) office building in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, built between 1968 and 1976 when the city was part of East Germany. It is the tallest building in Brandenburg. The 107m (351feet) hall containing Tropical Islands and the 161m (528feet) steam generator at Schwarze Pumpe power station are taller structures, though they lack occupied floors.

Background

The tower was designed by a collective under architects Hans Tulke and Paul Teichmann and built in part by Free German Youth (FDJ) work brigades; construction lasted nearly eight years. It was planned as an office building, but when it opened it housed a 274-bed dormitory for workers in the Frankfurt semiconductor plant, as well as a 160-bed Jugendtourist-Hotel, similar to a youth hostel, but geared towards organised meetings such as the Whitsuntide meetings of the FDJ with its Polish counterpart, the ZSMP, of which the 1977 meeting, not long after the opening of the hotel, was the most significant.

After German reunification, the building underwent refurbishing from 1992 to 1994, following the plans of architect Monika Krebs, when it opened as the Oderturm.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emporis building ID 123595 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203240/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/123595 . dead . March 6, 2016 . Emporis.