Jahrtausendturm

The Millennium Tower in Magdeburg is 60 meters high the tallest wooden building in Germany.

The Millennium Tower was built for the Federal Garden Show in 1999 in Magdeburg Elbauenpark. An exhibition on the development of the sciences, grows with many vivid, partly interactive experiments is in him. Among other things, you can read the clock of the Magdeburg Cathedral by an astronomical telescope. A Foucault pendulum is suspended in the Spire, demonstrates the rotation of the earth.

Construction details

The tower is constructed wrong and contains six floors. This can be reached by a staircase inside and a walk-in spiral ramp to the outer skin.

  • Height: 60 m
  • Oval Area: 70 × 50 m²
  • Obstructed wood Volume: 5500 cubic meters
  • Building volume: 61,000 m³
  • Cover with foil: 5000 m²
  • Exhibition space: 8030 m²
  • Height up to the observation level: 43 m
  • Steps up to the observation level: 243
  • Length of the outer ramp: 450 m

Exhibition

Inside the tower there is a 6000 years in the past, ranging chronologically ordered exhibition about scientific achievements of mankind. It begins in the lowest floor and leads the visitor to go up to the fifth floor.

The exhibition floors

  • First level: Early civilizations and beginnings of human history. Walk- Egyptian apartment, grave chamber and labyrinth. Illustration of physical and mathematical problems of the earliest time.
  • Second level: Middle Ages ( 500-1500 ). Antique World systems and medicine, simple machines and the early Arabia.
  • Third level: Early Modern Times ( 1500-1650 ). Mechanics, vacuum, magnetism, mathematics, alchemy, medicine and the world change. Important wars, the great voyages of discovery and invention (eg, letterpress, telescope ).
  • Fourth level: 1650-1859. Medicine, chemistry, biology and sensory perception, in optics. The plane is divided into levels of 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. In: 1750 to the present. Electricity, radio engineering, thermodynamics, stellar parallax, Doppler effect, time and space, genetic engineering and nuclear energy.

Comparable wooden towers

  • Lookout tower Pyramidentower 100m total height, viewing platform 76 meters.
  • Goethe Tower in Frankfurt am Main ( 43 meters)
  • Lookout tower Blumenthal / Ostprignitz (45 meters)
  • The Galileo tower at the Swiss research exhibition Heureka 1991 in Zurich ( 52.5 meters)
  • Measurement towers in Brück / Landkreis Potsdam- agent Mark (54 meters)
  • Radio Tower Rottenbuch / Schongau (62.5 meters including antenna)
  • Transmission tower in Gliwice / Poland (118 meters)
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