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Silberturm

Frankfurt-Innenstadt I, Germany

The 650th tallest building in the world

166.3 m · 546 ft

Silberturm (Silver Tower), formerly known as Dresdner-Bank-Hochhaus and Jürgen-Ponto-Hochhaus, is a 32-storey, 166.3 m (546 ft) futurist skyscraper in the Bahnhofsviertel district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was the tallest building in Germany from 1978 until 1990. Until 2009 it was part of the headquarters of Dresdner Bank, one of Germany's largest banks until its merger with Commerzbank in 2009. Since at least 2012 and still as of 2021, the main tenant is Deutsche Bahn.

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

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