Müggelberge TV tower

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Müggelberge TV tower
Image of the object
View from the Müggelturm to the transmission systems with the television tower on the left
Basic data
Place: Berlin-Koepenick
Country: Berlin
Country: Germany
Altitude : 106  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 59.7 "  N , 13 ° 38 ′ 11.6"  E
Use: Telecommunications tower
Accessibility: Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner : German radio tower
Tower data
Construction time : 1954-1955
Operating time: since 1955
Total height : 31  m
Data on the transmission system
Waveband : FM transmitter
Radio : VHF broadcasting
Send type: Directional radio
Further data
intended use: Television tower
planned height: 130 m
Position map
Müggelberge TV tower (Berlin)
Müggelberge TV tower
Müggelberge TV tower
Localization of Berlin in Germany

The TV tower Müggelberge is for the telecommunications high-used 31-meter tower in massive construction in the southeast of Berlin on the Treptow-Koepenick belonging Müggelbergen . It was originally intended to be the television tower in Berlin . The "television tower", which is not accessible to the public, with an antenna dome ( radome ) on its top, should not be confused with the Müggelturm , an almost 30-meter-high observation tower , which was built around 800 m to the west and opened at the end of 1961 .

Around 150 m to the east there is a 64 m high steel lattice tower with antennas for directional radio and the non-public mobile land radio service , nömL for short.

history

In 1952, began German post of the GDR with the planning of a television tower in Berlin. For this purpose, the head office radio system favored a plot of land in the Berlin Müggelberge, which topographically offered the best conditions for the radio coverage of the Berlin urban area. In the considerations, it also played a role that the location for such a functional building was far from the center and thus influenced neither the architectural nor the urban dimension. After the Deutsche Post applied for a site permit from the chief architect of the East Berlin magistrate Hermann Henselmann on April 23, 1954 , it was granted on May 4, 1954.

The tower should be accessible to the population, the height of the structure was planned to be 130 meters. The reinforced concrete structure with a square floor plan was to contain two viewing platforms at a height of 70 meters, but not a cantilevered tower cage . The television tower under the code name F4 had a balance sheet total of 8.714 million marks and was included in the national economic plan for the years 1954 to 1957.

On December 13, 1955, Interior Minister Karl Maron called for the construction work, which was already in full swing, to be stopped immediately. Although the ministry had approved the construction project on May 29, 1954, it has now determined that the location is only eight kilometers away from Schönefeld Airport in East Berlin and that its height on the edge of the approach lane threatened to endanger flight operations. Various compromise efforts by the post office to reduce the height of the tower failed, so that on November 15, 1956, the construction project was finally discontinued. The end of the project represents an early example of the conceptual problems of the East German planned economy, which in this case set back the development of the television and radio relay network in the GDR by years. The stump of the Müggelberge TV tower, which had been completed by then, had two upper floors and was made weatherproof and later used for monitoring systems for the Ministry of State Security . Today it serves as a radio link for Deutsche Telekom AG, among others .

  • Seen from the driveway

  • View from the plane

See also

literature

  • Harald Lutz: radio transmission systems. Radio towers, masts, antennas. Siebel Verlag, Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 3-88180-645-8 , pp. 32-33.
  • Peter Müller: A symbol with a view. The East Berlin TV tower . 2nd Edition. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-345-00761-4 .
  • Gerd Klawitter: TV tower on Alexanderplatz . In: 100 years of radio technology in Germany. Radio stations around Berlin. Wissenschaft und Technik Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89685-500-X , pp. 193-204.

Web links

Commons : Müggelberge TV tower  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller: Symbol with a view. The East Berlin TV tower. P. 20.
  2. ^ Müller: Symbol with a view. The East Berlin TV tower. P. 21.
  3. ^ Müller: Symbol with a view. The East Berlin TV tower. P. 22.
  4. ^ Müller: Symbol with a view. The East Berlin TV tower. P. 23.
  5. ↑ Müggelberge TV tower. In: Structurae