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Gustav-Vietor-Turm

Taunusstein Germany

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1882
  Finished1883
  Destroyed2006
Building Uses
 - observation
Structural Types
 - truss tower

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Description
• Gustav-Vietor-Turm was one of the first lattice steel observation towers built in Germany.

• It was demolished in March 2006, but was already 20 years before that closed for visitors, but afterwards still used by radioamateurs.

• Demolishing was done by using an excivator.


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