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Aufi Tower

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The 186th tallest tower in the world

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Aufi Tower
Aufi Tower. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Aufi or Funkturm Aufhausen is the name of the police radio tower in Aufhausen, Germany (part of Geislingen an der Steige). The Aufi is a 132-metre-high (433 ft) radio tower in steel and concrete, with a diameter of 6 metres. It is one of the thinnest steel-and-concrete towers in the world. In the 1960s and 70s measurements of static were made on this tower. It is not accessible to the public.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

More tall towers in Germany

  1. Fernsehturm Berlin368 m
  2. Europaturm331.1 m
  3. Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg292.8 m
  4. Transmitter Riegelsberg285.5 m
  5. Heinrich Hertz Tower279.2 m

Other tall towers worldwide

  1. Warsaw radio mast · Konstantynów646.4 m
  2. Tokyo Skytree · Oshiage634 m
  3. KRDK-TV mast · Traill County627.8 m
  4. Diversified Communications Tower · South Carolina609.6 m
  5. KATV tower · Jefferson County609.6 m
  6. KVLY-TV mast · Blanchard605 m
  7. Abraj Al Bait · Mecca601 m
  8. Canton Tower · Chigang Subdistrict600 m