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Skyscrapers in Hessen's largest city

Since at one point my Frankfurt am Main page was starting to get rather large and unwieldy, I have moved the Frankfurt Skyline Countdown over here to my "Land Hessen" page.

So this is now the place where you can do a countdown of the twenty-six tallest buildings in the city of Frankfurt. There is still one tip for each building -- except for # 5, which has five tips (with twenty-one photos) in order to build up suspense to a fever pitch before finally going on to the Top Four.

When I first made the countdown I included only the twenty tallest buildings, but then some more were completed so the Top Twenty became the Top Twenty-Two, then the Top Twenty-Five and now the Top Twenty-Six.

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

The last major re-vamp of the Frankfurt Skyline Countdown was in May 2012.

The tips/reviews are now all linked together, so if you want to see them in order you can easily do so by clicking on the link at the bottom of each tip.

Nine of the tips feature the great German dramatist, poet and historian Friedrich Schiller. As you will see, Schiller was not a big fan of 20th and 21st century architecture -- which is not surprising since he died in 1805.

One thing Schiller and I have in common is that neither of us takes any responsibility for what goes on inside these tall buildings. Schiller was a very progressive person in his time; if he were alive today I am sure he would not approve of millionaire investment bankers getting huge bonuses for wrecking the economy and putting millions of people out of work. But unlike me he would be writing plays and poems about it, not just tips/reviews on VirtualTourist.

(I have written more about Friedrich Schiller on my Wiesbaden, Bad Vilbel and Leipzig pages.)

City Tower in Offenbach am Main

By the way, there is one skyscraper in Land Hessen which is not in Frankfurt and is therefore not included in the countdown. That is the 120-meter City Tower in the adjoining city of Offenbach am Main. (Would be # 20 if it were in Frankfurt.)

Of course Land Hessen has a lot more to offer than just skyscrapers! For other aspects, please have a look at my Bad Hersfeld, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Bad Orb, Bad Vilbel, Darmstadt, Friedberg, Gelnhausen, Gießen, Kassel, Kassel, Steinau an der Straße and Wiesbaden pages. And my Frankfurt am Main page, of course!

All right, are you ready? Then take a deep breath and click here to start the countdown with Frankfurt's twenty-sixth tallest building.

Intro Updated May 9, 2012
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Kuznetsov_Sergey 21 hours ago Report Abuse

A very impressive overview of German skyline coundowns! I was very impressed by Dubai's buildings some years ago. Our Moscow-City skyscrapers are under construction now and they are 360m high and will be 506m next year (Federatiom Tower - it will be the highest building in Europe).
HORSCHECK May 19, 2012 at 2:06 AM Report Abuse

Don, brilliant new additions and fabulous updates to your Skyline countdown. I especially like the illuminated IBC Tower. Just a month ago I walked through the Torhaus and saw the Messeturm by myself, as I was attending the "light & building" fair in Frankfurt. Great to know that the Tower 185 is 204 metres tall. *winkygrin*
breughel May 13, 2012 at 7:53 AM Report Abuse

That's a quite original look at your city!
ettiewyn May 12, 2012 at 8:53 AM Report Abuse

A very interesting page, what a great idea :-) Some of these buildings look very nice, while others look so ugly... (Especially the shabby one where you used to study - what a pity!) I had to laugh about Schiller ignoring all those buildings and agree with what you write about him on the intro page!
Nice that two neighboring towers are called Castor and Pollux! I also like the view from Main Tower, the city looks very green!
MalenaN May 11, 2012 at 3:48 AM Report Abuse

Number 25 relly looks colourful at night, too bad though that it was empty even a year after it was completed. Nice with the changing colours of Deutsche Bank Towers depending on where you are!
csordila Jan 19, 2012 at 2:45 AM Report Abuse

I was in Frankfurt several years ago! The development of the city is really amazing. L.
angiebabe Dec 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM Report Abuse

Interesting to see so many pics of interesting buildings around Frankfurt - only flown in , picked up a rental car and away for 4 days on my very 1st visit to Germany as a transit stopover to Scotland and didnt see anything of the city and still havent. so thanks - also thanks for visiting and rating my Burundi page.would love to go back, even to do volunteer work and see more of the country and its neighbours.
toonsarah Sep 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM Report Abuse

How come I never found this page before?! Unlike Schiller I love much (but not all) modern architecture. Some of these are definitely more appealing to me than others - I like the Eurotheum, Skyper, Deutsche Bank Towers & Pollux, and would love to go up the Main Tower. Not so keen on the AfE-Turm though - has it been pulled down yet?
deecat May 15, 2011 at 6:09 PM Report Abuse

As a lover of highrise architecture, I truly enjoyed a re-read and view. My favorites of the countdown are the very modern Westendstra?e1 and the more classical Fairgrounds Tower. This was a blast to read and very informative. Love all the added photos.
kris-t Feb 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM Report Abuse

Oh.. skyscrapers and some more skyscrapers! Very impressive... Thank you for stoping by our Paris page. It's good to know that tips are helpful.