This is a list of Germany's tallest structures, containing all types of structures. Please correct and expand this list. Various other wind turbines reach at least 200 m tip height (list will not be updated completely as regards more recent wind turbines, see also German Wikipedia article).

Highest structures by structural type/use

Towers

* Free-standing tower:

Berlin TV Tower The Berliner Fernsehturm or Fernsehturm Berlin ( en, Berlin Television Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany. Located in the Marien quarter (''Marienviertel''), close to Alexanderplatz in the locality and district of Mitte, ...

, Berlin, 368 m * Concrete tower:

, Berlin, 368 m * Lattice tower: Suspension pylons of

Elbe Crossing 2 Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe. In 2020, due to COVID-19 conditions and strong winds, Germany produced 484 TW⋅h of electricity of which over 50% was from renewable energy sources, 24% fro ...

, Stade, 227 m (before 1972: Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower, Königs Wusterhausen, 243 m ) * Electricity pylon: Suspension pylons of

, Stade, 227 m * Wind turbine:

Fuhrländer Wind Turbine Laasow Fuhrländer Wind Turbine Laasow is a wind turbine, built in 2006 near the village of Laasow, Brandenburg, Germany. It consists of a 160-metre lattice tower, which carries a rotor 90 metres in diameter. Until two slightly taller wind turbines ...

, Laasow, 205 m * Ride: Scream, Heidepark Soltau, 103 m * Aerial tramway support pillar: Pillar II of

Eibsee Aerial Tramway The Seilbahn Zugspitze is an aerial tramway running from the Eibsee Lake to the top of Zugspitze in Bavaria, Germany. It holds the world record for the longest freespan in a cable car at as well as the tallest lattice steel aerial tramway supp ...

, Garmisch-Partenkirchen: 85 m * Lighthouse: Campen Lighthouse, Campen: 65 m * Test Tower:

Rottweil Test Tower The TK Elevator Test Tower (TK-Elevator-Testturm) is an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Germany. It is owned by TK Elevator, who have their elevator research campus nearby. It stands tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator syst ...

, near

Rottweil Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years. Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,00 ...

: 246 m * Wooden Tower: Windkraftanlage Hannover-Marienwerder, near

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

: 100 m (1933-1945: Mühlacker Radio Tower, Mühlacker: 190 m, 1945-1948: Tegel Radio Tower, Berlin: 165 m, 1948-1983: Ismaning Radio Tower, Ismaning: 163 m), 2002-2012:

Rottenbuch Radio Tower The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company, sited between Peiting and Rottenbuch in southern Bavaria, Germany. The framework tower, a glued girder binder construction made from European Douglas fir timber, is 66 m ...

, Peiting: 66 m)

Chimney

* Chimney: Chimney of Buschhaus Power Station, Helmstedt: 308 m (1981-2006: Chimney of

Westerholt Power Station Westerholt Power Station was a coal fired power station in Gelsenkirchen-Westerholt, Germany. The power plant consisted of two units built in the 1960s, each capable of producing 150 MW of electricity. Its smokestack, built in 1981, was 337 me ...

, Westerholt: 337 m) * Cooling Tower:

Niederaussem Power Station Niederaussem Power Station is a lignite-fired power station in the Bergheim Niederaussem/ Rhein Erft circle, owned by RWE. It consists of nine units, which were built between 1963 and 2003. It is the second-largest lignite coal power plant i ...

, Niederaussem: 200 m * Brick chimney: Halsbrücker Esse, Freiberg im Sachsen, 140 m

Buildings

* Highrise:

Commerzbank Tower Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story, skyscraper owned by Samsung of Korea since September 2016 in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of . It is the tallest ...

, Frankfurt/Main: 300 m * Industrial building: Block K of

, Niederaussem: 168 m * Church: Ulm Münster, Ulm: 161 m * Residential:

Colonia-Haus Colonia-Haus is a 45-storey, skyscraper completed in 1973 in the Riehl district of Cologne, Germany. Upon completion in 1973, it was the tallest residential-only building in Europe until the 2001 completion of the KölnTurm. Colonia-Haus has ...

, Cologne: 155 m * Silo:

Schapfen Mill Tower The Schapfen-Mill-Tower is a tall silo tower near Ulm, Germany. Schapfen-Mill-Tower started construction in 2004 and was completed in 2005. It was the tallest operational grain elevator for a time following the demolition of Henninger Turm in ...

Silo, Ulm: 125 m * Light advertisement:

Bayer Cross Leverkusen Bayer AG (, commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include pharmaceutica ...

, Leverkusen: 118 m * Wooden Building:

Jahrtausendturm Jahrtausendturm (german: millennium tower) is, at , one of the highest wooden towers in the world. It was established on the occasion of the Bundesgartenschau 1999 in the Magdeburger Elbauenpark in Magdeburg, Germany. The tower houses an exhib ...

, Magdeburg: 60 m * Brick building: St. Martin's Church, Landshut: 130.6 m

Guyed mast

* Guyed mast (grounded): Longwave transmitter Donebach, Mudau: 363 m * Guyed mast (insulated): Masts of DHO38, Saterland: 353 m * Partially guyed tower:

Waldenburg TV Tower Waldenburg may refer to: Geography * Waldenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Waldenburg, Saxony, Germany * Waldenburg, Silesia, today Wałbrzych, Poland * Waldenburg, Switzerland * Waldenburg, Arkansas, USA * Bělá pod Pradědem (Waldenburg), ...

: 165 m

Bridges and dams

At all bridges height of highest pillar is given * Bridge: Kocher Valley Bridge, Geislingen am Kocher: 178 m * Railway Bridge: Müngsten Bridge, Solingen: 107 m * Suspension Bridge: Fleher Bridge, Düsseldorf: 146 m * Brick Bridge:

Göltzsch Viaduct The Göltzsch Viaduct (German: ''Göltzschtalbrücke'') is a railway bridge in Germany. It is the largest brick-built bridge in the world, and for a time it was the tallest railway bridge in the world. It spans the valley of the Göltzsch River b ...

, Vogtland: 78 m * Dam:

Rappbode Dam The Rappbode Dam (german: Rappbode-Talsperre) is the largest dam in the Harz region as well as the highest dam in Germany. Together with several other dams and retention basins, it forms the flood protection system for the eastern Harz. The ind ...

, Hasselfelde: 106 m

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Schleswig-Holstein

* FM- and TV-masts Bungsberg, 231 m Close to the site, there is a telecommunication tower of reinforced concrete, the Telecommunication Tower Bungsberg with an observation deck in a height of 40 m.

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

* FM- and TV-Mast Hamburg-Billstedt, 300 m

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

* Chimney of Unit 6 of Bremen-Hafen Power Station, 250 m

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

* FM and TV-mast Schwerin-Zippendorf, 273 m Close to it, there is the TV Tower Schwerin-Zippendorf, a TV tower of reinforced concrete with an observation deck.

Berlin

* TV Tower Berlin, 368.03 m

Brandenburg

* New longwave transmission mast Zehlendorf, 359.7 m

Lower Saxony

* VLF transmission masts Saterland, 352.9 m

Saxony-Anhalt

* longwave transmission mast Burg, 324 m

Free State of Saxony

* Chimney of heating power station Chemnitz-Nord, 300 m * 3 chimneys of Kraftwerk Boxberg (Werk 1 und 2), 300 m

Free State of Thuringia

* Chimney of Erfurt-Ost Heating Power Station, 226 m (demolished) * Chimneys of Gera-Nord Heating Power Station, 225 m * Chimney of Jena Heating Power Station, 225 m

North Rhine-Westphalia

* Chimney of

Power Station Westerholt Westerholt Power Station was a coal fired power station in Gelsenkirchen-Westerholt, Germany. The power plant consisted of two units built in the 1960s, each capable of producing 150 MW of electricity. Its smokestack, built in 1981, was 337 metr ...

, 337 m (demolished in 2006) *

FM and TV-mast Wesel The FM and TV-mast Wesel is a 320.8 metre tall guyed steel framework radio mast of the Deutsche Telekom AG at Wesel-Büderich, Germany. FM and TV-mast Wesel was built in 1968 and is used for FM- and TV transmission. FM and TV-mast Wesel is the se ...

, 320.8 m

Hesse

* Europe Tower (Telecommunication Tower Frankfurt), 337.5 m

Rhineland-Palatinate

* FM- and TV Mast Scharteberg, 302 m

Saarland

* FM- and TV Mast Riegelsberg, 287 m

Baden-Württemberg

* Longwave transmission masts Donebach, 363 m *

, 246 m

Free State of Bavaria

* Telecommunication Tower Nuremberg, 292 m

External links

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