Fernsehturm Stuttgart

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Fernsehturm Stuttgart

The Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
(TV Tower Stuttgart) is the world's first TV tower built from concrete

Concrete

Concrete is a construction material composed of cement as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, construction aggregate , water , and Chemistry admixtures....
(and prototype for many towers of that kind all over the world).

It is located on the so-called "Hoher Bopser" hill in the southern Stuttgart district of Degerloch.

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Concrete

Süddeutscher Rundfunk

The S?ddeutscher Rundfunk was a Germany radio and television station operating in the northern part of the States of Germany of Baden-W?rttemberg....
(today: Südwestrundfunk

Südwestrundfunk

The S?dwestrundfunk is a public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany, specifically the states of Baden-W?rttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate....
– SWR). The tower broadcasts several FM radio

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio....
stations as well as Germany's ARD

Das Erste

Das Erste is the principal public broadcasting television channel in German television. It is a joint production of Germany's regional public broadcasters acting through, and coordinated by the ARD consortium....
TV network. Although controversial at first, it quickly became a well known landmark

Landmark

Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by exploration and others to find their way back or through an area.In modern usage, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure....
of Stuttgart and tourist attraction. From the two observation decks there is a view of Stuttgart, from the forests and vineyards in and around Stuttgart to the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest

Black Forest

The Black Forest is a forest mountain range in Baden-W?rttemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south....
. On clear days the Swiss Alps

Swiss Alps

The Swiss Alps are the portion of the Alps mountain mountain range that lies within Switzerland. Because of their central position with the entire Alpine range, they are also known as the Central Alps....
are visible.

Engineer: Professor Dr. Ing. Fritz Leonhardt
Fritz Leonhardt

Fritz Leonhardt was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges....
Geographical Coordinates:
Altitude: Foot of tower 483 m above sea level
Overall height to the antenna point: 216.8 meters
Height of upper observation deck: 153.5 meters
Height of lower observation deck: 150 meters
Diameter of foundation: 27 meters
Total weight of tower: approximately 3000 tons
Weight of foundation: approximately 1500 tons
Speed of elevators: 4 m per second
Panorama
Panorama

In its most general sense, a panorama is any wide view of a physical space. It has also come to refer to a wide-angle representation of such a view ? whether in painting, drawing, photography, film/video, or a three-dimensional model....
Café
Café

A caf? or coffee shop is an informal restaurant offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches. This differs from a coffee house, which is a limited-menu establishment which focuses on coffee sales....
on a platform of the tower basket
Maximum diameter of tower basket: 15 meters

The tower can be reached by the Stuttgart public transport system (see Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
external links) and is open for visitors from 9:00 until 23:00.

History

10 January 1954: Start of construction
5 February 1956: Inauguration
October 1965 until December 1965: Extension of antenna, hence today the tower is 216.8 meters tall.

Air traffic warning lights

The tower carries beside the conventional red air traffic warning lights three rotating Xenon-lamps similar to that used on lighthouses just above the observation deck.

Other Transmission Towers in Stuttgart (not accessible to public)

Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf
Fernmeldeturm Frauenkopf

The Stuttgarter Fernmeldeturm is a reinforced concrete tower for radio relay, FM broadcasting and TV transmitting services tower at Stuttgart-Frauenkopf in Germany ....
(height: 192.4 m)
Vodafone-Funkturm Stuttgart-Vaihingen
Vodafone-Funkturm Stuttgart-Vaihingen

The Vodafone-Funkturm is a 98.6 metre high tower for mobile phone services in Stuttgart-Vaihingen.The Vodafone-Funkturm of Stuttgart-Vaihingen is a very unconventional tower: it consists of three concrete tubes which are assembled together in the form of a tripod....
(height: 98.6 m)
Funkturm Stuttgart
Funkturm Stuttgart

Funkturm Stuttgart is a reinforced concrete transmitting tower, built in 1966 on the Raichberg of Stuttgart, Germany . The radio tower is not accessible to the public....
(height: 93 m)
Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen
Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen

The Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-M?hringen is a 93 metre high latticework steel tower for directional radio services of the EnBW AG on the area of the substation Stuttgart-M?hringen....
(height: 93 m)

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Sentech Tower

Sentech Tower is a high TV tower in the Brixton, Gauteng suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a well-known and easily identifiable landmark in the city, alongside its architectural cousin, the Hillbrow Tower....
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The Blosenbergturm is a transmitting tower in Berom?nster, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, built in 1937 for the German language radio station DRS and sending at an AM radio frequency of 531 kHz marking the down end of the official medium wave broadcasting range....
in Beromünster
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has similar proportions, but is a free-standing lattice tower
Mast radiator

A mast radiator is a Radio masts and towers in which the whole structure works as an antenna. This is commonly used for transmitters operating at Very low frequency, Low frequency and Mediumwave, in particular those used for broadcasting....
insulated against ground and also equipped with a rotating beamer.

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Literature

Fernsehturm Stuttgart. Fernsehturm-Betriebs-GmbH, Stuttgart 1991
Walther Drechsel: Turmbauwerke. Wiesbaden, Berlin, 1967
Jörg Schlaich, Matthias Schüller: Ingenieurbauführer Baden-Württemberg. Bauwerk Verlag, Berlin 1999; pp. 486-488.