3D print the Einstein Tower
A free, printable model of the Einstein Tower and the surrounding streets and buildings in Potsdam, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Einstein Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 6 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
6 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Curved, sculpted shape
The tower's curved forms are fine surface detail. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale; a bigger print or Full detail keeps more of the sculpted shape.
- One piece with the ground
The Einstein Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Einstein Tower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Einstein Tower
The Einstein Tower (Einsteinturm in German) is an astrophysical observatory in Potsdam, Germany, set in the Albert Einstein Science Park. Erich Mendelsohn was the architect. Its site is the summit of the Potsdam Telegraphenberg, and its purpose was to hold a solar telescope designed by astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich. The telescope serves experiments and observations testing Albert Einstein's relativity theory.
The idea took shape around 1917; after a fund-raising drive, construction ran from 1919 to 1921, and the tower went into operation in 1924. Light from the telescope travels down a shaft to the basement, where the laboratory and instruments are. Einstein never worked at the tower but backed its construction and the running of the telescope.
The tower was among Mendelsohn's first major projects and is his best-known building; it is frequently named as a landmark of expressionist architecture. Plans called for a concrete exterior, but construction difficulties and wartime shortages meant much of it was built in brick covered with stucco. Allied bombing heavily damaged it in World War II, and a full renovation followed in 1999.
About this model
The Einstein Tower is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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