Revolving restaurant
A revolving restaurant is a rotatably mounted restaurant, which is moved by electric motors through a gearbox. Guests can so without leaving their seats during their stay consider the complete 360 ° panorama. Revolving restaurants are mostly located on towers or other tall buildings ( Tower restaurant) or on mountain tops. On towers, they are usually housed in the tower basket. The rotation speed is typically from one to three revolutions per hour.
History
The revolving restaurant at the Florian Tower, a TV tower in Dortmund, went into operation in 1959, and thus is considered the oldest in the world. Opened on the Danube Tower in Vienna in 1964, two-story rotating restaurant ( cafe and restaurant ) was the first in which rotates the glass facade and so the unobstructed view without rotating past the wall to the machine.
As early as the 1st century AD is said to have stood on the Palatine Hill in Rome, a revolving restaurant, which belonged to the palace Domus Aurea of Emperor Nero. French archaeologists found the remains of a circular building, which was probably the rotunda, which Suetonius had described in his imperial biographies as the main dining room. Archaeologists suspect that the rotunda with a diameter of 16 meters contained a wooden structure, which was supported by a central pillar.