List of the tallest television and telecommunications towers in Switzerland
The list of the tallest television and telecommunications towers in Switzerland includes all television and telecommunications towers in Switzerland with a total height of 80 meters or more . Only self-supporting reinforced concrete or steel lattice towers appear in the list.
In an international comparison of the tallest television and telecommunications towers , the Swiss towers are rather low. Only five of them are intended for public traffic and most of the viewing platforms are only accessible by stairs. The towers that are accessible to the public do not have a revolving restaurant . The highest publicly accessible platform of these structures in Switzerland is provided by the Mont Pèlerin television tower at a height of 64 meters. Because of the country's mountainous topography , most of the towers are built on exposed ridges or peaks. Most of the tower structures and their systems have been operated by Swisscom Broadcast AG since 2002. In order to maintain the transmission network throughout Switzerland, the company has over 500 transmission locations with 2000 transmission systems. A little over 120 employees work directly in the transmission towers.
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Legend of the table:
- Rank : Rank, sorted in ascending order according to the total height
- Height : total height of the tower in meters
- Name : Name of the tower
- Location : the place where the tower is located
- Canton : Canton in which the tower is located
- Construction : Construction using the material
- Year : year of completion
- Shaft : indicates the shaft height without the antenna mast
- Platform height : Specification of the platform height
- Use : indicates the purpose of the tower structure
Existing structures
| rank |
Height (m) |
Surname | place | Canton | design type | year | Shank (noun) |
Platform height (m) |
use | photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 250.57 | TV tower St. Chrischona | Bettingen | BS | Reinforced concrete tower | 1983 | 152.2 | 137.40 | Radio, television and water tower |
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| 2 | 217 | Blosenberg Tower | Beromünster | LU | Steel lattice tower | 1937 | - | 150 | Medium wave transmitter |
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| 3 | 192.2 | Bern-Bantiger TV tower | Bantiger | BE | Reinforced concrete tower | 1997 | 60.9 | 42.2 | Radio, television and observation tower |
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| 4th | 186.7 | TV tower Uetliberg | Uetliberg | ZH | Reinforced concrete tower | 1990 | 55.2 | 46.4 | Radio and television tower |
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| 5 | 145 | Geissberg transmission tower (Aargau) | Geissberg | AG | Steel lattice tower | 1993 | - | - | Radio tower |
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| 6th | 135 | Monte Ceneri radio tower | Monte Ceneri | TI | Steel lattice tower | 1933 | - | - | Broadcast tower | |
| 7th | 130 | Brühlberg Tower | Winterthur | ZH | Reinforced concrete tower | 1994 | - | 34 | TV and observation tower |
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| 8th | 125 | Sottens reserve transmission tower | Sottens | VD | Steel lattice tower | 1931 | - | - | Medium wave transmitter |
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| 9 | 123.5 | Säntis transmitter | Säntis | SG | Reinforced concrete tower | 1997 | - | - | Radio and television tower |
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| 10 | 122.6 | Mont Pèlerin television tower | Mont Pèlerin | VD | Reinforced concrete tower | 1974 | 65 | 64.3 | Radio, television and observation tower |
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| 11 | 120 | Valzeina transmitter | Valzeina | GR | Steel lattice tower | - | - | Broadcast tower | ||
| 12 | 118.7 | Gibloux transmission tower | Gibloux | FR | Reinforced concrete tower | 1993 | 62 | 37 | Radio and television tower |
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| 13 | 114 | Transmitter system Nods Chasseral | Chasseral | BE | Concrete / steel lattice tower |
1978 | 38 | - | Radio and television tower |
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| 14th | 112 | La Dôle transmitter | La Dole | VD | Steel lattice tower | 1958 | - | - | Radio and television tower |
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| 15th | 112 | Wasserflue transmission tower | Wasserflue | AG | Steel lattice tower | - | - | Radio and television tower |
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| 16 | 110.6 | Engelberg transmitter | Engelberg | SO | Steel framework construction |
1974 | - | Radio and television tower | ||
| 17th | 97 | Feschel transmitter | Guttet-Feschel | VS | Reinforced concrete tower | 1980 | - | - | Radio and television tower | |
| 18th | 96 | Transmitter Rigi | Rigi | SZ | Reinforced concrete tower | 1958 | - | 6th | Radio, television and observation tower |
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| 19th | 96 | Cholfirst transmission tower | Cholfirst | ZH | Steel lattice tower | 1973 | - | 42 | Radio, television and observation tower |
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| 20th | 90 | MZA Celerina | Celerina / Schlarigna |
GR | Steel lattice tower | 1973 | - | Radio and television tower | ||
| 21st | 80 | Monte San Salvatore transmitter | Monte San Salvatore | TI | Steel lattice tower | 1957 | - | Broadcast tower |
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| 22nd | 80 | Les Ordons transmission tower | Les Ordons | JU | Steel lattice tower | - | Radio and television tower |
No longer existing structures
| rank |
Height (m) |
Surname | place | Canton | design type | year | Shank (noun) |
Platform height (m) |
use | photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 188 | Country transmitter Sottens | Sottens | VD | Steel lattice tower | 1989 | - | - | Medium wave transmitter |
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| 2 | 125 | Time signal transmitter Prangins I u. II ( HGB ) | Prangins | VD | Steel lattice tower | 1928 | - | - | Time signal transmitter |
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| 2 | 125 | Beromünster reserve transmission tower | Beromünster | LU | Steel lattice tower | 1931 | 120 | - | Medium wave transmitter |
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See also
Web links
- The tallest television and telecommunications towers in Switzerland
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: Swiss FM broadcasters Federal Office of Communications
- Picture gallery of some of Switzerland's transmission towers
- Pictures of transmission towers in western Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swisscom Broadcast AG corporate brochure ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 5 (pdf)
- ↑ Swisscom Broadcast AG company brochure, p. 7
