Telecommunication tower Rostock

The Rostock telecommunications tower was built in 1968 as the Rostock-Stadtweide directional radio tower of the Deutsche Post in the Stadtweide district of the same name with a total height of 140 meters. It was the most important transmitter location in the city of Rostock and is one of the oldest reinforced concrete transmission towers in the area of the former GDR .

history

Small telecommunications tower

Since GDR times, in today's residential area Am Tannenweg, only a few hundred meters away from the large telecommunications tower, there has been its "little brother", a telecommunications tower that is used as a transmission system for medium-wave broadcasting , which is used to broadcast the program of Radio DDR I on 558 kHz with 20 kW transmission power was used. During the GDR era, the now defunct speedway racetrack and a sports field were right next to it. The small transmission tower still exists today and is used by a mobile operator as a transmission mast.

Big telecommunications tower

Construction of the tower began in the spring of 1968. In the autumn of the same year, the assembly of the antenna carrier began at a height of over 100 meters.

The large directional radio tower became civil for the broadcast of FM radio programs and until the end of the broadcast of the DFF by the television of the GDR for the broadcast of the TV station DDR1 in the VHF band and live broadcasts for programs such as visits or music produced in the Rostock Baltic studio and snacks in front of the harbor .

But there was also a use by the security organs of the GDR, largely unknown to the population. The tower was integrated into the republic-wide VHF relay radio network of the German People's Police. B. a radio link from a Rostock radio patrol car to a VP office in Dresden could be established.

In the summer of 1973 a viewing platform was inaugurated at a height of 102 meters. It was open to the public until the 1980s. When visibility was good, the Danish coast (South Falster ) was visible from the platform . As part of the transfer from the Deutsche Post of the GDR to the Deutsche Bundespost , later Deutsche Telekom AG, the tower was completely renovated and rebuilt in the 1990s. The construction that integrated the viewing platform was torn down. The formerly silver-gray tower was given the colors of Deutsche Telekom AG, on the southern and northern sides two illuminated magenta-colored "T" s were attached to the south and north, which were dismantled again in the mid-2010s.

In the night of August 4th to 5th, 2014, the Rostock-Stadtweide and Marlow transmitters were shut down for the transmission of radio and television programs until further notice and their broadcasts were relocated to the Rostock-Toitenwinkel transmitter . The Rostock-Stadtweide telecommunications tower will continue to be used by T-Mobile.

Frequencies and Programs

In addition to the radio stations listed, eight television programs from ARD and ZDF were also broadcast as part of digital terrestrial television DVB-T between 2006 and 2014 . Their analog broadcast has since been discontinued.

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
88.9	N-Joy	_N-JOY __ / VOM_NDR_	D385	-	2	D (130–250 °, 290–300 °, 340–90 °)	H
90.2	LOHRO	_LOHRO__	1073	-	0.079	D (340-110 °)	H
95.8	NDR 1 Radio MV	NDR1_HRO NDR_1_MV	D571 (regional), D371	Rostock	0.16	D (350–110 °)	H
97.3	Antenna MV	_ANT_MV_	D378	North	2	D (60–40 °)	H
105.6	Baltic wave	_BALTIC SEA_	D379	North	0.16	D (350–110 °)	H
106.5	Deutschlandfunk	__DLF___	D210	-	1	D (50-270 °)	H

Digital television (DVB-T)

channel	Frequency (in MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (in kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate [Mbit / s]	SFN with
29	538	NDR MVP	Das Erste (NDR) NDR television Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania NDR television Schleswig-Holstein / MDR television Saxony-Anhalt RBB Television Brandenburg	1	ND	H	16-QAM	2/3	1/4	13.27	Rostock-Stadtweide , Marlow
46	674	ZDFmobil bouquet	ZDF 3 sat ZDFinfo KiKA (6 a.m. to 9 p.m.) / ZDFneo (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.)	1	ND	H	16-QAM	2/3	1/4	13.27	Rostock-Stadtweide , Marlow

Analog television

Until the switch to DVB-T , the following programs were broadcast in analogue PAL :

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
35	583.25	NDR television (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)	1	D.	H
38	607.25	ZDF	1	D.	H
49	695.25	rok tv	1	D.	H

Individual evidence

↑ microwave giant . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 9, 1968, page 1.
↑ 5 meters higher every day . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 19, 1968, page 2.
↑ Rostock from a bird's eye view . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 1973, page 1.

[1] microwave giant . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 9, 1968, page 1.

[2] 5 meters higher every day . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 19, 1968, page 2.

[3] Rostock from a bird's eye view . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 1973, page 1.