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Colonius

tower in Cologne
Place Television Tower Q153646

Facts

13 properties

Designation

Instance of
television tower
Heritage designation
architectural heritage monument in North Rhine-Westphalia[10]

Location

Country
Germany[2]
Location
Cologne[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 50.947°, 6.932°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Neustadt-Nord[1]

Period and style

Inception
1981[7]
Height
+266[11]
Made from material
concrete[5]
More facts +4
Owned by
Deutsche Funkturm[4]
Commissioned by
Deutsche Bundespost[3]
Number of elevators
+3[9]
Structural engineer
Fritz Leonhardt[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Colonius de Kölner Fernmeldeturm ru Колониус zh 科隆塔
🔖 Identifiers · 10
GND ID
123979861X
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Colonius 20050129.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
03365770n
CTBUH Skyscraper Center building ID
9432
Freebase ID
/m/02q2z0
GeoNames ID
7281577
Hikr waypoint ID
48936
SkyscraperPage building ID
70
Structurae structure ID
20000119
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Building", "Colonius::4dmb5"]
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Edition
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🔗 Connections
Commissioned by 1
Deutsche Bundespost
Country 1
Germany
Instance of 1
television tower
Location 1
Cologne
Made from material 1
concrete
Structural engineer 1
Fritz Leonhardt
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Related Entities

Deutsche Bundespost Germany

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  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . rundschau-online.de. Retrieved . rundschau-online.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 27w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Structural engineer → Fritz Leonhardt
    Location → Cologne
    Number of elevators → 3
    Wolfram Language entity code → Entity["Building", "Colonius::4dmb5"]
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Building", "Colonius::4dmb5"], batch #257096"
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