Telecommunication tower Bremen (1961)
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Telecommunication tower Bremen (1961)
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Bremen - center | |||
| Country: | Bremen | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 13 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 49.2 " N , 8 ° 47 ′ 56.5" E | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1959-1961 | |||
| Operating time: | since 1961 | |||
| Total height : | 117 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | |||
| Send types: | PAL , cellular | |||
| Shutdown : | 1986 (broadcast) | |||
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The former telecommunications tower in Bremen is a 117 meter high structure. It consists of a substructure - solid, brick-clad , ten-storey, with an almost square floor plan and a protruding double roof edge, the facade interrupted by a few rows of mostly vertical windows - and an antenna head mounted on it.
The tower is on the corner of Ölmühlenstraße and Corssengang, with access via Neuenstraße, and thus in Bremen's Faulenquartier in the Stephaniviertel in the Altstadt district in the Mitte district , almost 730 meters northwest of the market square .
history
In 1959, construction of the reinforced concrete tower began, and in 1961 it was put into operation. At 122.20 meters, it was by far the tallest building in the city at the time and belonged to the area of responsibility of Telecommunications Office 1. For more than two decades, ZDF and Third TV programs and various other radio services for the region were broadcast through it .
However, the rapid development of communication technologies required the constant installation of additional and more powerful transmitting and receiving antennas on the tower in order to be able to guarantee high-quality connections. At the beginning of the 1980s, it was not justifiable from a spatial or static point of view to install additional antennas. In addition, it was feared that the increasingly tall new buildings in the area could impair reception of the radio link. From 1982, the Deutsche Bundespost therefore had a larger and higher telecommunications tower built in the neighboring Walle district , which after its completion in 1986 took over almost all of its predecessor's tasks.
Over the years, extensive renovations were made to the tower in the old town, which slimmed down its external appearance. The former owner, Deutsche Telekom, is now only the tenant of the premises. Senate Building Director Franz-Josef Höing described the current importance of the tower in October 2011 with the following words:
“Although there is only a little cell phone on the masts at the top of the tower, there is still a lot of technology at the location. That is the most important point for the telecommunications network in Bremen. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 1: A-K. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , p. 251.
- ^ Jürgen Hinrichs: Concrete building plans for the Stephaniviertel. In: www.weser-kurier.de. Weser-Kurier, October 19, 2011, accessed on June 16, 2012 (newspaper article).
