Editing Frankfurt (section)

===History of high-rise buildings===
{{see also|List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt}}
[[File:Skyline-sued-ffm002 henninger turm.jpg|thumb|right|The original Henninger Turm in 2007]]
[[File:Frankfurt Skyline (16259801511).jpg|thumb|upright=1.00|Skyline at dusk, seen from Deutschherrnbrücke (2014)]]
For centuries, [[Frankfurt Cathedral|St. Bartholomeus's Cathedral]] was the tallest structure. The first building to exceed the 95-meter-high cathedral was not an office building but a [[grain silo]] {{cvt|120|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} high.{{citation needed||date=March 2025}} The [[Henninger Turm]] was opened in the 1960s and the silo was topped by a [[revolving restaurant]] designed to be a landmark. The Henninger Turm was extensively refurbished and is now a residential high-rise.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Meixner Schlueter Wendt |title=Henninger Turm Frankfurt am Main |url=https://www.meixner-schlueter-wendt.de/en/projects/henninger-turm/ |date=2018}}</ref>

The first high-rise building boom came in the 1970s when [[Westend Gate]] (then called ''Plaza Büro Center'') and [[Silberturm]] were constructed and became the tallest buildings in Germany with a height of 159.3 meters and 166.3 meters, respectively. Around the same time, [[Frankfurter Büro Center]] and [[City-Haus]] (142.4 meters and 142.1 meters) were constructed at Mainzer Landstraße and [[Eurotower (Frankfurt)|Eurotower]] (148.0 meters) and [[Garden Tower]] (127.0 meters; then called ''Helaba-Hochhaus'') were constructed in the financial district.

None of the buildings constructed during the 1980s surpassed Silberturm. The most famous buildings from this decade are the [[Deutsche Bank Twin Towers]] at Taunusanlage, both 155.0 meters tall.

The 1990s featured a second wave. [[Messeturm]], built on the trade fair site, reached a height of {{convert|256.5|m|sp=us}} and became the tallest building in Europe by 1991. It was overtaken by the {{cvt|259|m|ft|adj=mid|-high|sp=us}} [[Commerzbank Tower]] in 1997. Other tall buildings from this decade are [[Westendstrasse 1]] ({{convert|208|m|sp=us}}), [[Main Tower]] ({{convert|200|m|sp=us}}) and [[Trianon (Frankfurt am Main)|Trianon]] ({{convert|186|m|sp=us}}).

In 21st-century Frankfurt, more high-rise buildings and skyscrapers (e.g., [[Skyper]], [[Opernturm]], [[Tower 185]], [[Seat of the European Central Bank]], [[Taunusturm]]) emerged, but none have surpassed Commerzbank Tower.