The Goethe Tower (German: Goetheturm) is a 43-metre high tower built entirely out of wood on the northern edge of Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen woods. It is after the Jahrtausendturm, the two towers of the aerial test facility Brück, the Observation Tower Blumenthal and the Linsentower the fifth tallest wooden construction in Germany thanks to the addition of two antenna measuring stations. Sachsenhausen is a district of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Brück aerial testing facility is a facility for testing aerials at Brück, south of Berlin. ... Jump to: navigation, search Observation Tower Blumenthal is a 45 metre tall observation tower built of wood in Blumenthal, Brandenburg, Germany. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Linsentower is a 45 metre high observation tower built of wood at Linsengericht in Hesse, Germany. ...

In 1867 a wooden tower was first built on the site, then 22 metres tall. The tower was built in honour of a poem by the local poet Karl Heinrich Ehrt, who described how Goethe enjoyed taking walks in the area and looked down upon the town. In an 1860 poem he gave the spot the name "Goethe's Repose" (Goethes Ruh). After the First World War this first tower had become so rickety that it had to be pulled down. Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ▶(?) (IPA: ) (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

In 1931 the Goethe Tower was rebuilt with money donated by the Jewish buisinessman Gustav Gerst. The opening ceremony took place in November 1931, shortly before the 1932 commemorations of Goethe's death one hundred years before. The city of Frankfurt provided the wood for the tower - altogether more than 340m³ of pine, beech and oak timber. Jump to: navigation, search 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...

Today the Goethe Tower is still a popular place for day trippers, especially families, as a large playground and a café have been built at the foot of the tower.

This article was translated from de:Goetheturm of 14. June 2005

Weblinks

• http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b41987
• http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0018256

See also

• List of towers