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{{Short description|Building in Cologne, Germany}}
[[Image:Messeturm Köln mit RTL-Werbung-3059.jpg|thumb|right|Messeturm, seen from the left river side]]

The '''Messeturm Köln''' ([[German language|German]] for '''Fair Tower Cologne''') is a highrise building which is 80 meters high,<ref>https://www.prinzpartner.de/project/entwicklungskonzept-einer-umnutzung-messeturm-koeln/ (in German); according to other sources the architectural height is 85 meters  (to the top, including the sculpture), 70 meters to the roof, see: https://www.emporis.de/buildings/109575/messeturm-cologne-germany (in German)</ref> in [[Cologne]], [[Germany]]. It is crowned by the sculpture Hermes-Gesichter<ref>https://architekturfuehrer.koeln/spaziergaenge/rheinboulevard-deutz/5 (in German)</ref> ([[German language|German]] for ''Faces of Hermes'') by {{ill|Hans Wissel|de|Hans Wissel|vertical-align=sup}}, professor for sculpture and plastic arts at the [[Kölner Werkschulen]]. The tower's top floor featured a [[tower]] [[restaurant]] (now closed).

The tower got its name because it was erected besides the fair halls of Cologne. Faced with brick the finish of the buildings looks similar, but they were not built together. The halls opened with the first fair on May 11, 1924. The building of the tower was started in 1927 and it opened with a fair on May 12, 1928. Tower and halls were built on the banks of river Rhine in the borough ''Köln-Deutz'' just opposite Cologne Cathedral.

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* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b7347

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