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Above left: Düsseldorf seen from afar from one of the bridges across the River Rhine.
Above right: the city's centre seen from Rheinturm, with a few of its tallest buildings.

Düsseldorf is another German city founded by the Romans, some 2,000 years ago.
It got its name from being a small village (Dorf) on the banks of the Düssel, an affluent of the river Rhine.
These days, Düsseldorf is one of Germany's largest cities with almost 600,000 inhabitants.
The city is the capital of the federal state of Nord-Rrhein-Westfalen (Nordrhein-Westphalia),
and received municipal rights in 1288.
Skyscraper wise, the city may well be one of the 'smallest' cities of all the cities currently present
in the Skyscraper Picture Collection, but the city has a few distinctive tall buildings
(among others ARAG Tower) that make its inclusion a valid one.














Above: 34 pictures of Düsseldorf's tallest: ARAG Tower (125m/410f, 31 stories, 2000).
The building is situated outside the city centre area in the Northeast of Düsseldorf.
In this building, owned by and named after a large insurance company, 950 people work.
A main feature of the building is that it has a four 'Wintergarten' (gardens) floors (every 7th floor),
each two floors tall, which are for relaxation purposes, among others.




Above: LVA Hauptgebäude (123m/404f, 29 stories, 1976), Düsseldorf's 2nd tallest.
In the third picture the building is seen from Rheinturm.
The building was Düsseldorf's tallest from 1976-2000.
During the course of 2006, the building underwent renovation works.
The pictures with the crane show the building in its 2006 renovation state.








Above: VICTORIA-Haus (108m/354f, 29 stories, 1998).
Düsseldorf's third tallest building.


Above: for many years this was the city's tallest building: Thyssenhaus (95m/311f, 26 stories, 1960).
It lost this title in 1976 to LVA-Hauptgebäude.








Above: GAP 15 (90m/295f, 24 stories, 2005),
Düsseldorf's latest addition to its skyline.




Above: Vodafone-Hochhaus (89m/290f, 25 stories, 1955).
The city's tallest from 1955-1960.


Above: another view of Düsseldorf from Rheinturm.
In the picture, three of the city's tallest skyscraper can be seen:
Arag Tower (middle), VICTORIA-Haus (left), and Thyssenhaus (right).
For more pictures of the buildings of Düsseldorf,
including a few very distinctive ones - but not so tall -,
please go to page 2 of Düsseldorf:


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Düsseldorf's 10 tallest skyscrapers:
1. ARAG TOWER 125m/410f, 31 stories, 2000
2. LVA HAUPTGEBÄUDE 123m/404f, 29 stories, 1976
3. VICTORIA-HAUS 108m/354f, 29 stories, 1998
4. THYSSENHAUS 95m/311f, 26 stories, 1960
5. GAP 15 90m/295f, 24 stories, 2005
6. VODAFONE-HOCHHAUS 89m/290f, 25 stories, 1955
7. STADTTOR 84m/276f, 20 stories, 1998
8. STADTSPARKASSE 80m/262f, 19 stories, 2001
9. LANDESZENTRALBANK 74m/242f, 26 stories, 1987
10. PRESSEHAUS RHEINISCHE POST 68m/223f, 14 stories, 1991

The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings and some of the building information are courtesy of
EMPORIS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.

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