How the highest tower in the world was to be built in the Hessian province

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AArbergen-Michelbach is a place that often occurs in provincial Germany. Not particularly beautiful, not particularly ugly, not extinct, but the bear is certainly dancing elsewhere. Lots of nature all around, hills, meadows, forests. Horse manure lies on the paths on the outskirts of the village, between the houses there are hidden gardens, secret paths, small steps. The offer at the sports club, the TV Michelbach 1903, is impressive: fitness with Danie, volleyball with Walter and Jonas, dance group with Jolina, Alicia and Yana, children’s gymnastics.

Right here, in the Aartal, in the Rheingau-Taunus district, it was supposed to be built: the tallest building in the world. A 1250 meter high residential tower with space for 25,000 people, with 356 floors, a building of superlatives or, as a “Zeit” journalist put it in the late summer of 1964: a small town with a chimney. This tower would have made the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building tiny. Even today’s tallest building in the world, the 828 meter high skyscraper Burj Khalifa in Dubai, would still look small next to it.

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