Built between 1972 and 1974, the tower stands at 119 m (390 ft) with 36 floors and is the current 48th tallest building in Germany.

It was built by the German construction company Hochtief in the early 1970s and completed in 1974, with a height of 119 meters (125 m with the radio masts installed on the roof), with 36 floors and came as a revitalized concept for the tourist area at the time.

The highest restaurant (temporarily closed since 2019 → elevator broken) is on the 35th floor and offers a wide view over the Priwall with the four-masted barque Passat, Nordwestmecklenburg, the Trave with the Skandinavienkai as far as Lübeck and far over the Bay of Lübeck of the Baltic Sea with the coast of Ostholstein.

In the summer of 2018, a new hotel was built on this site, along with an apartment building and a public spa area.

The range of the white-red flashing light with a recurrence every four seconds is 15 (red) or 19 (white) nautical miles in the northeast sector, i.e. up to the height of the next lighthouse, Dahmeshöved, on the coast of Wagria behind Grömitz.