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Halsbrücker Esse

Halsbrücke, Italy

Halsbrücker Esse

Halsbrücker Esse is a smokestack to the north of Halsbrücke near Freiberg in Saxony, Germany. It is also known as Hohe Esse or Halsbrück(e)ner Esse, Esse being an East Central German word for a smokestack. With a height of 140 m (460 ft) it was the highest smokestack of the world at its completion (

nowadays the Anaconda Smelter Stack in Montana is higher), and it remains the tallest brick building in Europe. It is a technical and industrial historical monument.

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