A short explanation why they did it that way: They only shorten the chimney to the half. As you can see there's a highly frequented railway of the Stuttgart City Transport nearby. Any other way would have meant to close the railway for some days. Thousands of people that would have recovered a compensation from the railway company - that means lots of money... So this was the cheapest way.

Für die Erweiterung der Firma Kärcher wird in Winnenden der Schornstein des ehemaligen Werks der Dachziegelei Pfleiderer durch die Firma CK-Abbruch abgetragen.