AfE-Turm, Demolished skyscraper in Bockenheim, Frankfurt, Germany

The AfE-Turm was a 116-metre, 38-storey tower (30 floors on the south side, 22 on the north) on the Bockenheim campus of Goethe University. Its north side held the social sciences library and seminar rooms at 1.5 times normal floor height; the south side had single-height offices. This produced split levels and an intricate staircase system. The facade was a dense grid of recessed windows in weathered grey concrete, with a projecting canopy and angled concrete fins at the base.

Planning began in the early 1960s after the College of Pedagogy joined the university in 1961 and the Bettinaschule proved too small. The 116 m tower was completed in 1972 and stood on the Bockenheim campus until the departments moved out in spring 2013. It was imploded on 2 February 2014, the tallest building in Europe ever demolished that way; One Forty West replaced it in 2021.

The tower's name refers to the Department of Pedagogy (AfE), which was closed before the building opened in 1972, yet the name stayed. Students ran the TuCa (Turm Café) on the ground floor until university authorities had it cleared by police so a Studentenwerk café, the C'AfE, could open; from 2007 the TuCa operated "in exile" on the fifth floor.

The tower was demolished on 2 February 2014, so there is nothing left to visit; the site in the Senckenberg-Quarter is now occupied by One Forty West and the Senckenberg Tower. Inside, the split-levels between the taller seminar half and the lower office half made orientation difficult, and the seven lifts had waits of up to fifteen minutes.

The tower's name outlived its purpose: AfE stood for Abteilung für Erziehungswissenschaft, yet that education department was closed before the building opened in 1972 and never moved in. The name was kept anyway. The tower was designed for 2,500 students but was occupied by a multiple of that from the start, so its seven lifts had waits of up to fifteen minutes.