The (; 'Rhine Tower') is a concrete

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, capital of the federal state (''Bundesland'') of

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. Construction commenced in 1979 and finished in 1981. The carries aerials for directional

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, FM and TV transmitters. It stands 172.5 metres (564ft) tall and houses a

revolving restaurant A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is a tower restaurant designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving wikt:platform, platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the rev ...

and an

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at a height of 168 metres (551ft). It is the tallest building in Düsseldorf. The was inaugurated on 1 December 1981.Müller, Wegener, Wöstemeyer: ''Rheinturm Düsseldorf'', p. 18 It contains 7,500 cubic metres of

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and weighs 22,500 tons. Before October 15, 2004, when an aerial antenna for

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was mounted, it was 234.2 metres (768ft) tall. The observation deck is open to the public daily from 10:00 to 23:30. As a special attraction, a light sculpture on its shaft works as a clock. This sculpture was designed by Horst H. Baumann and is called ' (light time level). The light sculpture on the is the largest

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in the world. The clock is a

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with six sets of lights, two each for the Hour (00 to 24), Minutes (00 to 60), and Seconds (00 to 60), to be read from top to bottom.

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File:Düsseldorf (DE), Rheinturm und Landtag -- 2023 -- 0066.jpg, at blue hour File:Blick vom Rheinturm auf Düsseldorf.jpg, View from the looking down onto Stadtmitte File:Rheinturm Düsseldorf NRW mit Sternschnuppe.jpg, Düsseldorf 70th Anniversary of the state NRW Illumination with Rhine Comet File:Rheinturm uhrzeit.jpg, The displaying the time. The number of dots represents the Hour, Minutes, and Seconds as shown in the image above File:View on Düsseldorf from Rheinturm.jpg, View from the looking down onto Bürger Park

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360° interactive panoramaRheinturm Restaurants QOMO and M 168
Centro Hotels Group *
time lapse of tower and clock at new years fire work

Literature

* Klaus Müller, Hermann Wegener, Heinz-Gerd Wöstemeyer: ''Rheinturm Düsseldorf: Daten und Fakten'' Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, . * Roland Kanz: ''Architekturführer Düsseldorf.'' Dietrich Riemer Verlag, Berlin 2001, , S. 81. * Klaus Englert: ''… in die Jahre gekommen. Der Rheinturm in Düsseldorf.'' In ''db Deutsche Bauzeitung'' 141, 2007, Nr.6, S. 85–88, ISSN 0721-1902. * Erwin Heinle,

Fritz Leonhardt Fritz Leonhardt (12 July 1909 – 30 December 1999) was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design' ...

: ''Türme aller Zeiten, aller Kulturen.'' Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1997, , S. 235. {{Authority control Towers completed in 1981 Buildings and structures in Düsseldorf Towers with revolving restaurants Tourist attractions in Düsseldorf Communication towers in Germany Observation towers in Germany 1981 establishments in West Germany

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