Bahntower
The Bahntower, also written as BahnTower and Bahn-Tower, is a 26-story, 103-metre skyscraper on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. Built between 1998 and 2000, the Bahntower provides 22,000 m2 of office space for the headquarters of Deutsche Bahn.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Office building
- Description: skyscraper in Berlin
- Also known as: “BahnTower”
- Address: Potsdamer Platz 2, Tiergarten, Berlin, 10785
- Roof shape: flat
Photo: Code, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Center Potsdamer Platz and Brandenburg Gate.
The Center Potsdamer Platz
Photo: Tillea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Center Potsdamer Platz is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and housed Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019. The Center Potsdamer Platz is situated 120 metres northwest of Bahntower.
Brandenburg Gate
Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel, the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Brandenburg Gate is situated 760 metres north of Bahntower.
Holocaust Memorial
Photo: NoRud, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. Holocaust Memorial is situated 530 metres northeast of Bahntower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Tiergarten.
Friedrichstadt
Quarter
Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I.
Tiergarten
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tiergarten is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin. Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin.
Dorotheenstadt
Quarter
Dorotheenstadt is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central Berlin, Germany, which forms part of the locality of Mitte within the borough also called Mitte.
Bahntower
- Categories: skyscraper, building, and office
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Stadt, Berlin, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.50967° or 52° 30′ 35″ northLongitude
13.37502° or 13° 22′ 30″ eastInception
2000Levels
26Height
103 metres (338 feet)Open location code
9F4MG95G+V2OpenStreetMap ID
way 11080117OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=flatWikidata ID
Q643536
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Bahntower” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “BahnTower”
- Catalan: “BahnTower”
- Chinese: “BahnTower”
- Chinese: “铁路塔”
- Chinese: “鐵路塔”
- Czech: “BahnTower”
- Dutch: “BahnTower”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج باهن”
- French: “BahnTower”
- German: “Bahn-Tower”
- German: “Bahntower”
- German: “BahnTower”
- Hungarian: “Bahntower”
- Hungarian: “BahnTower”
- Italian: “Bahntower”
- Korean: “반 타워”
- Persian: “بانتاور”
- Polish: “Bahntower”
- Portuguese: “Bahntower”
- Russian: “Bahntower”
- Russian: “BahnTower”
- Slovenian: “BahnTower”
- Spanish: “BahnTower”
- Swedish: “Bahntower”
- Turkish: “Bahntower”
- “Bahntower”
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