Tagblatt-Turm

The daily paper tower in Stuttgart -Mitte, Eberhard 61, is an early skyscraper and a landmark of the city. The tower was from 1928 to 1943 the seat of the editors and the publisher of the eponymous newspaper Stuttgarter new daily paper.

The architect Ernst Otto Oßwald planned the tower in 1924 compared to the Schocken department store was the first skyscraper in Stuttgart and the first reinforced concrete skyscraper in Germany. The construction took place from 1927 until 1928. The building has 18 floors and a height of 61 m, which was about as high as the tower of the old Town Hall from 1905., The daily paper tower is considered the first executed in exposed concrete high-rise building in Germany. Made the building is made ​​of two accompanying slender building structures and by narrow bands of windows horizontally accentuated. The building was at build time because of its modern architecture ( New Building ) very controversial, but is now regarded as high-level architectural city as a historic monument since 1976 and is formally recognized as such under protection.

The name of the building leads back to the original, and 1943 permanent use by the liberal- democratic New daily paper. After the war, until 1978, it served in the same way the Stuttgarter Zeitung and Stuttgarter Nachrichten.

After extensive renovations to the surrounding buildings in the years 2002 to 2004, the daily paper - tower was named for the resulting culture there under the tower with several theaters and establishments of cultural education.

Since 2005, the tower with a contour lighting is provided on the outer edges, consisting of approximately 350 meters optical fiber line. Already at the dedication of the building in 1928 illuminated neon tubes whose forms, but these were dismantled in the 1960s.

The building is now considered one of the most important examples of modern architecture in Stuttgart.

Another superlative had the tower in 1927 the company built in the day sheet steel tower to 15 storeys at the time Paternoster highest in the world. The plant was but already in the 1960s, replaced by two passenger lifts the company Filler & Knörzer.