Double Tower
There is a persistent rumor that the original plans included an identical twin tower, which was to be connected with a bridge and binoculars as a symbol for Jena's optical tool-making industry. However, investigations by historians of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena at the beginning of the 1990s did not confirm this rumor.
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