3D print the Opernturm
A free, printable 3D model of the OpernTurm in Frankfurt and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Opernturm 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.
- Real height
- 170 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 46 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
170 m of the Opernturm, 46 mm on your shelf
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.
- Slow layers for the tower top
A tall tower prints most cleanly at a lower layer height (0.12–0.16 mm) and a slower speed near the top. Print friendly keeps thin upper parts sturdy at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The Opernturm 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 Opernturm 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 Opernturm
Frankfurt's OpernTurm (Opera Tower) rises 170 m (560 ft) in the Westend-Süd district, where Bockenheimer Landstraße meets Bockenheimer Anlage, across from the Alte Oper. Christoph Mäckler designed it. It was developed by Tishman Speyer, a US firm whose earlier work includes Berlin's Sony Center and Frankfurt's Messeturm.
The complex pairs the tower with a 7-story podium of 26 m (85 ft) facing the Alte Oper; visitors enter through a lobby 18 m (59 ft) high. Its yellow-beige stone cladding was chosen to fit in with the buildings around Opernplatz. Designed to use 23 percent less energy than Germany's 2007 EnEV regulation required, OpernTurm was among Europe's earliest office buildings to receive LEED Gold certification.
The site had held the Zürich-Haus, a 68 m (223 ft) building from 1962 and one of Frankfurt's first high-rises. Demolition of the old tower came in 2002, and the empty site was sold to Tishman Speyer in July 2004. Groundbreaking took place on January 22, 2007, and the tower was completed in late 2009. Its natural stone façade sets it apart from the glass towers around it, and the adjoining Rothschildpark was redesigned in English garden style and extended by 5,500 square meters (59,000 sq ft).
About this model
The Opernturm 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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