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Aufi Tower

Germany

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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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