Telecommunications tower of the US armed forces Heidelberg
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Telecommunications tower of the US armed forces Heidelberg
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Heidelberg | |||
| Country: | Baden-Württemberg | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 572 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 8.5 ″ N , 8 ° 43 ′ 58.6 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | State of Baden-Württemberg | |||
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| Construction time : | Late 1950s | |||
| Building materials : | Concrete , reinforced concrete | |||
| Operating time: | since the late 1950s | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Last modification (antenna) : | October 2010 | |||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Send type: | Directional radio | |||
| Shutdown : | July 2007 | |||
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The Telecommunication Tower of US-Forces Heidelberg (decommissioned) is on the Heidelberg Königstuhl situated radio tower , the former by the US forces was operated. At the end of the 1950s, the structure replaced preliminary steel lattice towers from the late 1940s. It is one of the very few directional radio towers of the US armed forces that are made of reinforced concrete .
At the end of the 1940s, the telephone connections of the US armed forces were for the first time sent and received via relay stations to the remote stations up to 80 kilometers away in Frankfurt and on the Donnersberg . The radio relay station on the Königstuhl was one of the central switching points of the US armed forces in Germany. The signal went to Berlin via three repeater / relay stations and a switching / relay station in Frankfurt. For example, a call from the Pentagon was B. connected to Berlin via Heidelberg and Frankfurt.
The relay station and the adjacent land used by the US Army were shut down in July 2007 and returned to the state of Baden-Württemberg. The last US Army unit to operate this facility was the 43rd Signal Battalion. In October 2010 a new antenna tip was installed, which is to serve the future digital BOS radio .
In the last few years before the shutdown, the entire relay station infrastructure of the US Army in Europe was replaced by fiber optic connections, which can transmit significantly more data and are not as susceptible to eavesdropping attacks and weather phenomena.
To the west of the site are the Heidelberg Telecommunications Tower (T-COM) and the Heidelberg TV Tower (SWR).
