This landmark is featured in a photo of "Popular Landmarks Around Frankfort", English/German Translation book I have. Of course, according to your description, it might be a photo of the old tower because the book dates back to 1999.

Yeah, unfortunately the old tower was destroyed by arson in 2017. There were other wooden buildings like the pavillions of the chinese garden in the Bethmanpark (another favorite spot of me), the pavillion of the korean garden in the Grüneburgpark and a wooden barrac that was an artist associations clubhouse near the river also destroyed by arson at the same time, the wooden building of a Kindergarten was extinguished before there was larger damage. It is assumed that all of this was doenby the same person, but the arsonist was never caught. If he would have been caught there would have probably been a lynchmob of angry Frankfurters been waiting for him, and to be honest, I would have been one of the persons that would have gotten his pitchfork and torches out of the basement.

Good safety tip. "Do NOT make the People of Frankfort Angry".

The view from the top of the tower must be quite impressive.

The view is impressive, unfortunately you can (also due to the plague) currently only get up with a ticket which are given out via a lottery.
But this is how the view to the city looks (this image is 10 years old) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goeth.....0_panorama.jpg

Very nice sight.
Have to say that sounds like quite an interesting system for giving people access to
the tower doing it through a lottery.