Fernsehturm - Stuttgart, BW, Germany
N 48° 45.346 E 009° 11.406
32U E 513972 N 5400323
There's the so-called 'Fernsehturm', the first telecommunications tower in the world, located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Waymark Code: WMT6D7
Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date Posted: 10/03/2016
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There's the so-called 'Fernsehturm', the first telecommunications tower in the world, located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The tower is located on the hill Hoher Bopser (elevation 483 meters) in the southern Stuttgart borough of Degerloch. From the 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.
The tower's construction was controversial – critics opposed the new building method and its costs; a simple 200-meter antenna array would have cost just 200,000 DM. Construction began on 10 January 1954 and continued for 20 months. This made it the first telecom tower in the world built with reinforced concrete. The construction cost was 4.2 million DM. Revenues from visitors reached that sum within five years. The tower was placed in service on 5 February 1956 by Süddeutscher Rundfunk (today Südwestrundfunk – SWR). The tower reached its current height of 216.61 m (710.7 ft) after the antenna was extended from October 1965 to December 1965.
Specifications:
- Engineer: Fritz Leonhardt
- Altitude: Foot of tower 483 m (1,585 ft) above sea level
- Overall height to the antenna point: 216.8 m (711 ft)
- Height of upper observation deck: 153.5 m (504 ft)
- Height of lower observation deck: 150 m (490 ft)
- Diameter of foundation: 27 m (89 ft)
- Total weight of tower: approximately 3,000 tons
- Weight of foundation: approximately 1,500 tons
- Speed of elevators: 5 m/s (16 ft/s)
- Panorama Café on a platform of the tower basket
- Maximum diameter of tower basket: 15 m (49 ft)
source: [DE] Wikipedia