The Jen Tower is a multistoried building in Jena.

The tower block was called until January 2005 Intershop Tower after its principal tenant at that time, the Intershop Communications AG. Further (unofficial) names are for example Phallus Jenensis, cookie role, university tower or Henselmann tower (after the architect). After the notice of the general lease on November 30th, 2004 the tower in Jen Tower was renamed. By putting an UMTS antenna on in December 2004, he became besides highest building of East Germany. Germany far it ranks on position 9. Directly opposite the Jen Towers is the first German multistoried building, which so-called building 15, which was established to 1915 after plans of the architect Friedrich Puetzer (1871-1922) and a height of 43 meters has. Also in direct neighbourhood are the building 36 (today seat of the Jenoptik AG) and the building 59 (research multistoried building of Carl Zeiss Jena), likewise sketched by Henselmann.

Construction

For its building in June 1969 by the Second World War spared delightful living and business quarter was torn off around the calibration place. Grundsteinlegung was on April 30th, 1970. The construction took place in sliding scarf building method. On 2 October 1972 that was inaugurated at that time 127 meters high buildings. 1999 were sold the building to an investor, who modernized it until 2001 complex, supplemented and with an antenna equipped over two floors. In 28. and 29. Floor is since then a restaurant. 30 floors the counting multistoried building is 159 meters high with turmspitze and thus the highest building of the new Lands of the Federal Republic; Germany far the Jen Tower belongs to the 30 highest wolkenkratzern. The circular tower is a reinforced concrete construction with 2 basements, 3.20 m thickens mat foundation and a diameter of 33 meters.

Use

Originally a use was planned as office building for the collective combine Carl Zeiss Jena, which was not realized however. In the year 1995 that was used the building by the Friedrich Schiller university Jena, therefore he was called in the colloquial language also university tower. In the base of the tower was the refectory of the university.

Double Tower

Over the tower climbs persistent the rumor of an originally planned, however never implemented twin tower, which is identically constructed implemented and connected with the realized building by a bridge and such binoculars as symbol for the optical tool-making represented strongly in the city Jena represent should. Investigations by historians of the Friedrich Schiller university Jena at the beginning of the 90's did not confirm this rumor however.

External links

• http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0006478