The TK Elevator Test Tower (TK-Elevator-Testturm) is an

elevator test tower An elevator test tower is a structure usually 100 to over 200 metres (300 feet to over 600 feet) tall that is designed to evaluate the stress and fatigue limits of specific elevator cars in a controlled environment. Tests are also carried out in ...

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 25,000 in ...

, Germany. It is owned by

TK Elevator ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg an ...

, who have their elevator research campus nearby. It stands tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator system. At , the tower contains Germany's tallest observation deck. It was completed in 2017 and was the tallest elevator test tower in the world then, as well as the second-largest elevator test chamber after a former mine shaft used by Kone.

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