Reconnaissance tower (Bundeswehr)

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Telecommunications sector tower B with "horizontal extension" for the LAPAS project on the Thurauer Berg near Woltersdorf in Lower Saxony

The reconnaissance towers of the Bundeswehr were erected and operated by the EloKa units of the army , air force and navy of the Bundeswehr on the German-German border and the border with Czechoslovakia in order to reconnaissance the armed forces of the Eastern Bloc . The towers of the Luftwaffe transmitted their results to the telecommunications area 70 of the Luftwaffe in Trier for a comprehensive evaluation and were called telecommunications sector towers .

The towers were located in the immediate vicinity of the border, partly within sight of their eastern counterparts. They were equipped with extensive equipment for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance . As a rule, around 200 soldiers were employed in shifts in a tower  . These were housed in a barracks in the area.

After German reunification and the end of the military confrontation due to the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, the towers became superfluous and all of them were abandoned. the military units operating them were disbanded.

air force
Telecommunications sector Tower location accommodation start of building Dissolved other users
A. Klaustorf Grossenbrode 1965 2004 BFSt
B. Thurauer Berg New Tramm 1965 1994 FmKp 945, 2nd platoon (later FmKp 1) of the army
C. Browsing shark Osterode am Harz 1964 1993, blown up in 2005 Parts of the FmKp 947 (later FmKp 7) of the army
E. Schneeberg (Fichtel Mountains) Wunsiedel 1963 1993
F. High arch (with two additional antenna supports ) Bad Kötzting 1965 2004
Location of the towers on what was then the western German eastern border
Former army reconnaissance tower on the Großer Kornberg
army
Telecommunications company Tower location accommodation start of building Dissolved
945 Bar wand Ehra-Lessien 1976 1994
947 High Meissner Hessian Lichtenau 1976 1994, blown up in 2002
946 Great Kornberg ( Fichtel Mountains ) Hof (Saale) 1976 1994
marine
designation operator Tower location accommodation start of building Dissolved
M. Marine Telecommunications Sector 73 Fur hooks Neustadt in Holstein 1972 1992

The towers and their barracks were some of the largest employers in the structurally weak regions on the border. Tower B near Dannenberg (Elbe) was actually supposed to house the planned LAPAS project and was quickly disbanded after it was discontinued in 1993.

Some towers are still used as a platform for mobile network operators, the tower on Großer Kornberg is used by a Fraunhofer Institute . In February 2012, the Ostsee Geocenter & Aquarium "Ostsee Erlebniswelt" was set up in the horizontal extension at telecommunications sector A. The tower itself will be accessible from 2016, initially the balcony on the 7th floor will be used as a "Baltic Sea observation tower".

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