Reconnaissance tower A (Bundeswehr)
The telecommunications sector tower A or tower A for short was a reconnaissance tower of the Bundeswehr in Klaustorf near Großenbrode on the Schleswig-Holstein Baltic Sea coast south of Fehmarn in the Ostholstein district . Drivers pass the striking light gray tower on their way along the Vogelfluglinie to Denmark : between Heiligenhafen and the Fehmarnsund Bridge , it stands on a natural elevation east of European route 47 . Popularly he was also called Spökenkieker . Visible from afar in Ostholstein, the spire reaches 105.50 meters above sea level, it was used for electronic reconnaissance up to a distance of 600 km. It was one of five reconnaissance towers of the Luftwaffe along the German-German border : Tower A in Klaustorf, Tower B on the Thurauer Berg near Dannenberg, Tower C on the Stöberhai near Osterode, Tower E on the Schneeberg near Wunsiedel and Tower F on the Hohen Arch at Kötzting. In addition, the Navy operated the reconnaissance tower M in Pelzerhaken .
Tower A was built between 1965 and 1968 and decommissioned in 2004. The landlord in Klaustorfer Turm A was the Federal Air Force with the telecommunications sector A of telecommunications regiment 71. The soldiers were housed in Großenbrode in the Fehmarnsund barracks.
The tower is about 75 meters high and has 16 floors. On floors 3 offices, floor 5: workshop rooms and supply rooms. The Federal Agency for Telecommunications Statistics ( Bundesnachrichtendienst ) was on the fourth floor . In the 6th the marine , 7th: telecommunication point and crypto room , in the 9th were the sleeping places. The floors on the 8th (interception of the radio link ) and in the wider bead 10 ( radio operator ), 11 (recording of radar broadcasts) contained the detection stations, antennas and antenna workshops. Antennas stood above it all the way to the top. The outer skin from the ninth floor is made of polyurethane foam . Asbestos-containing materials are built into the tower as fire protection.
In order to get into the tower , four people were first admitted to the guard through an isolation lock, where one received the tower ID in exchange for an exchange card. Then you went through a 40 meter long tunnel past a long row of lockers , the emergency exit and a shelter into the base of the tower. There were pictures of the construction of the tower on the walls and a diorama of a radio measuring station was set up. The elevator can be reached in the center of the tower, to the right you come to the spiral staircase, the water supply and the emergency power generators. To the left it goes into the workshop and the armory . A sheet metal escape slide runs around a spiral staircase from the eighth floor to the base of the tower . Starting in 1987, additional auxiliary buildings, the so-called horizontal extension, were built for the LAPAS altitude reconnaissance program .
The tower is no longer used for military purposes and has meanwhile been sold to private owners. A Baltic Sea aquarium and marine museum were set up in the “horizontal extension”. On February 2, 2012, the "Baltic Sea Adventure World", a branch of the Fehmarn Marine Center , was opened. The balcony around the 7th floor of what is now known as the Baltic Sea observation tower "Oceantower" is over 80 meters above sea level and has been accessible as a viewing platform since July 2017 .
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- ↑ The Ostsee observation tower "Oceantower" on the website of the Ostsee Erlebniswelt. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 16.7 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 55.4 ″ E