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The second-tallest structure in Europe? What about Longwave radio mast Hellissandur? --Ghirla | talk 11:49, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Many radio masts are much taller than these buildings, however this plainly refers to towers that are either free standing or are habitable to a certain extent.137.94.80.118 16:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] urban legends suck!

i've been born in (east-)berlin and lived there half of my live, and never ever have heard anything like this "pope's revenge" stuff. what's the use of having such "informations" in an encyclopedia?

It could have been known in West Berlin only. I've heard it many times. The source is probably a translation from German wikipedia, where it was also contested by East Berliners, but confirmed by West Berliners. Anorak2 20:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

the first half of Berlins never heard any "urban legends" concerning their buildings, the other one did. don't blame others that you didn't heard of it. --BLueFiSH ✉ 09:56, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Well I am coming from eastern Germany myself (lived there until the end of the GDR) and I can remember my own parents laughing several times about "St. Ulbrichts Gedächtniskathedrale" ( = St. Ulbricht's commemoration cathedral) and "Johannes Rache" (Johannes' [Pope] revenge) when the GDR still existed (must have been in the time between 1986 - 1989; I was born in 1980). This is maybe due to the fact that my parents were engaged in church that time quite a lot so that people with another background maybe have entirely missed such things. ;-) Arnomane 21:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reagan quote

I've added a quote from Ronald Reagan in his Tear down this wall speech. When I was listening to a recording of the speech, I immediately checked Wikipedia for a picture, and I was glad to find it. He misidentified the steel-tiled sphere as "glass," but clearly cited this phenomenon. I believe it is noteworthy, because the speech is at least as famous as the tower. Here is the entire thematic section in which that quote appears:

In these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great city. You've done so in spite of threats -- the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade. Today the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this wall. What keeps you here? Certainly there's a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant courage. But I believe there's something deeper, something that involves Berlin's whole look and feel and way of life -- not mere sentiment. No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions. Something, instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence, that refuses to release human energies or aspirations, something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says "yes" to this city, yes to the future, yes to freedom. In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin -- is "love." Love both profound and abiding.

Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.

Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexanderplatz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed.

I am not going to add a reciprocal link to Tear down this wall, but others are free to do so. BlueNight 20:57, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess Ronnie wasn't aware the sphere was made of West German steel...  ProhibitOnions  ^(T) 21:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TV Tower

It would be great if someone could make this article come up when "TV Tower" is searched. I would, but do not know how to do so. Levi P. 04:57, 22 August 2006 (UTC)