Heinrich-Hertz-Tower
Concrete-and-steel television tower whose revolving restaurant has sat empty for over two decades.
This guide to the Heinrich-Hertz-Tower in Hamburg starts behind a locked steel door, where two high-speed elevators have sat idle since the first of January 2001. It traces the tower back to 1968, when it opened as the tallest structure in the city, its revolving restaurant and observation deck drawing crowds who came just to watch Hamburg turn beneath their feet, known locally as Telemichel. You'll hear how inspectors' discovery of asbestos in the visitor levels set off a chain of decisions about the building's single narrow staircase, and how a bungee company briefly kept jumpers leaping off a lower platform before that closed too. Look up at the two hundred four meters of concrete shaft and imagine the view from the top.
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