Transmitter Koblenz
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Transmitter Koblenz
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Koblenz | |||
| Country: | Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 84 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 6 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | |||
| Demolition : | 1974 | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1934 | |||
| Operating time: | 1935-1974 | |||
| Last renovation (tower) : | 1965 | |||
| Total height : | 107 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | AM station | |||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | |||
| Shutdown : | 15th August 1974 | |||
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The Koblenz transmitter was a transmitter in Koblenz . The transmitter for medium-wave radio in the Lützel district, built in 1935, was demolished in 1974. It is not to be confused with the SWR station Koblenz .
history
terrain
The Rübenacher Schanze fortress originally stood on the site of the transmitter . After it was demolished in 1920, the city of Koblenz had a sports field built at this point, although the area was still used by the French occupation army and it did not belong to them. Only on January 1, 1934, after years of tough negotiations, was the city finally able to take over the property free of charge .
The Oberpostdirektion Koblenz had applied for the construction of a secondary transmitter in 1932 in order to guarantee the supply of the greater Koblenz area. Before the decision on the location of the new transmitter, test transmitters had already been set up in 1933 on the neighboring former Bubenheimer Flesche , on the Karthauser and on the Oberehrenbreitstein. The aim of this procedure was to control the radio quality at the selected points in order to be able to make a final decision on the best possible location for the transmitter. The favorite was the Bubenheimer Flesche at the time. Ultimately, the decision was made for the neighboring Rübenacher Schanze, where the transmission tower was built in place of the sports field.
Medium wave transmitter
From its official opening on April 13, 1935, the Koblenz transmitter initially used a 107-meter-high wooden tower as its antenna tower, which was erected between October 2, 1934 and November 15, 1934. This tower was originally one of the two towers of the Mühlacker transmitter , which was dismantled in 1934 as part of the renovation of the antenna system. Due to rot, this tower had to be demolished again in 1936. In 1938, a new, 107-meter-high wooden tower was built about 100 meters from the broadcasting building for air protection reasons, which was put into operation on June 2nd of that year. The mast was largely spared from the air raids in World War II , while the studios in the Kolping House were destroyed. The broadcasting house at the tower was partly badly damaged in four air raids. After the attack on December 24, 1944, in which a power cable was cut near the transmitter site, the transmitter ceased operations due to a lack of electricity.
After the war, broadcasting, now under the name Radio Koblenz , was resumed on October 14, 1945 in the neighboring Falckenstein barracks , and on March 31, 1946, Südwestfunk took over the station.
In 1965 the wooden tower had to be demolished because the city of Koblenz had terminated the lease agreement for the property on which this structure stood. As a replacement, a 52-meter-high, self-radiating steel truss mast, insulated from earth, was erected in the immediate vicinity. On August 15, 1974, the Koblenz transmitter ceased operations and the tower was removed. On the site of the former Koblenz transmitter, the Koblenz Postal Directorate built a new building for the Telecommunications Office II of the later Deutsche Telekom , which has housed the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Surveying and Geospatial Base Information since July 2015 . In the immediate vicinity is the former broadcasting house, which was restored after the war. In addition to numerous pictures, the street name Am Sender still reminds us of the building that was demolished in 1974.
literature
- Matthias Kellermann: The transmitter Koblenz (1934-1945). From the Rübenacher Schanze to the beginnings of Radio Koblenz . Koblenz 2020, ISBN 978-3-95638-416-5 .
- Walter Klingler: Radio Koblenz - an episode of post-war broadcasting . Koblenz 1984 (Publications of the State Museum Koblenz. State Collection of Technical Cultural Monuments. 22. Ed. Ulrich Löber).