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Mannesmann Tower

Döhren-Wülfel, Germany

The 165th tallest tower in the world

120 m · 394 ft

The Mannesmann Tower was a tower on the Hanover fairground in Hanover, Germany. It was a free-standing lattice tower with a triangular cross-section, standing 120 metres (390 ft) high and carried the logo of the Hanover Fair, which erected the tower in 1954, at a height of 89.8 metres (295 ft). The Mannesmann Tower hosted aerials for mobile phone services. It was demolished on 21 June 2012 due to its poor condition.

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

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