The Messeturm Köln (

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

for Fair Tower Cologne) is a highrise building which is 80 meters high, in

Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is crowned by the sculpture Hermes-Gesichterhttps://architekturfuehrer.koeln/spaziergaenge/rheinboulevard-deutz/5 (in German) (

for ''Faces of Hermes'') by , professor for sculpture and plastic arts at the Kölner Werkschulen. The tower's top floor featured a

tower A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...

restaurant A restaurant is an establishment that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and Delivery (commerce), food delivery services. Restaurants ...

(now closed). The tower got its name because it was erected besides the fair halls of Cologne. Faced with brick the finish of the buildings looks similar, but they were not built together. The halls opened with the first fair on May 11, 1924. The building of the tower was started in 1927 and it opened with a fair on May 12, 1928. Tower and halls were built on the banks of river Rhine in the borough ''Köln-Deutz'' just opposite Cologne Cathedral.

References

External links

* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b7347 Skyscrapers in Cologne Skyscraper office buildings in Germany Buildings and structures in Cologne Buildings and structures completed in 1928 Office buildings completed in 1928 1928 establishments in Germany 20th-century architecture in Germany {{NorthRhineWestphalia-struct-stub