Taunusstein, Germany

Werner Klämke kindly sent us the three photos below recently. The first two, taken 040520, give us a great recent look at this Futuro and the third is an interesting photo showing the Futuro illuminated on the occasion of a company party 120711. Thanks for sharing them Werner.

Coincidences are interesting occurences. Yesterday we made the first update to this page since 2016 when we added a recent photo of this Futuro. One day later Thomas Lahr posted this 1991 photo to Instagram. What is so very interesting about this photo is that it is the first (and only) photograph we have seen where the «half» Futuro (later donated by Expotechnik and relocated to Frankfurt am Main) is still on the Expotechnik campus. Very cool photo! Thanks for sharing it Thomas!

Its been a while since we saw a new photo of this Futuro but today runaroundtheworldin20days sent us this one showing how this unit currently looks (pretty much unchanged since we visited it in 2016).

In July of 2016 we were fortunate enough to be able to take a vacation to Europe. Our primary destinations were England and Switzerland but we were able to squeeze in a quick road trip through Germany to visit this Futuro along with those in Haigerloch and Niedernhausen as well as the half Futuro in Frankfurt.

During our visit to Taunusstein Simone Jungen and Benjamin Bothun of Expotechnik took time out of their busy day to visit with us and tell us a little about the Futuro (the three of us ca

Yves Buysse aka futurohouse has shared many photos and other items on these pages and it looks to us like he recently took a «Futuro Roadtrip» visiting this Futuro and those in Niedernhausen and Haigerloch on 031316.

This photo shows this Futuro as it appeared on 031316. Yves; I hope you don’t mind me sharing this photo here.

We were looking through old emails we had received to see if we had missed any information and of course we had. One referred us to this document (German — English version here); a press release on company history from Expotechnik Holding GmbH & Co. KG.

The document recounts some details of an exhibition presentation created for Diehl to be displayed at the 1970 CeBIT expo held each year on the world’s largest fairground, the Hanover Fairground in Hanover, Germany. No mention is made of the wor

Our best guess is that this Futuro has been located on the property of the German company Expotechnik Holding GmbH & Co. KG in Taunusstein, Germany for quite some time. Several web searches have not revealed any information about the Futuro but a look through some of the pages on the Company website suggests the Company has likely had something to do with the Futuro since the late 60’s/early 70’s; the manufacturing era for the Futuro.

The only photo we have come across to date is this photo of