Ernemann Tower

The Ernemann Tower was Germany's first significant high-riser and was part of the new Ernemann camera factory complex built by architects Emil Högg and Richard Müller in Dresden Striesen. Heinrich Ernemann's son Alexander was sent to the USA to learn from the industry there. When he came back he brought a lot of ideas to modernize the Ernemann company and how to give it modern buildings. The plans for the new buildings were made before WWI, the earliest plans for a high-riser built in Germany. Construction fell into wartime and was partially delayed to times after the war, including the tower. It was built from 1922-23.

The older factory buildings, built in 1898, were connected by a bridge. The old building had the other mythical element of the Ernemann buildings, the mosaic "light godess", vis-a-vis to the Ernemann Tower.