I went to ISH in Frankfurt, Germany with three friends in 1995. It was my third trip to that monstrosity of a tradeshow and we had arranged with friends at Danfoss to visit a few buildings and meet some engineers who had designed them. Frankfurt is a big city with big buildings and bulging suburbs. It’s sort of like New York, but without the jaywalkers.
One of the jobs was a residential-housing development. There were tower cranes all over the place. I asked about those and our host told me that Germans love their cranes.