Käflingsberg Tower
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Käflingsberg Tower
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Kargow | |||
| Country: | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 100.3 m above sea level NN | |||
| Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 45 ″ N , 12 ° 51 ′ 31 ″ E | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower , observation tower , fire watch tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower open to the public | |||
| Owner : | State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1999 | |||
| Operating time: | since December 1999 | |||
| Total height : | 55 m | |||
| Viewing platform: | 31 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Send type: | Cellular | |||
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The Käflingsberg tower is a 55 meter high observation , fire watch and mobile radio transmission tower in the core zone I of the Müritz National Park in the municipality of Kargow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , near the Speck district. The tower takes its name from the Käflingsberg , which is 100.3 m above sea level. NN highest elevation in a wide area.
history
Before the construction of the Käflingsberg tower, T-Mobile planned the erection of a lattice mast in the village of Speck to cover an area that had not been covered by mobile communications. Around the same time, a new fire watch tower was to be built near Klockow . The idea of building a multifunctional tower came up, saving costs and restricting the encroachment on the nature of the national park to one location, which ultimately did justice to the legal requirement to reduce interference. The start of construction was planned for 1998, but due to the ownership structure of the access roads to the building site, it did not take place until August 16, 1999, after DeTeImmobilien received the building permit in April 1999 after the open questions had been clarified. The building acceptance and handover to the mobile operator took place on December 21, 1999, the opening for visitors on April 19, 2000.
The investments for the building were made by Deutsche Telekom , which owned the Käflingsberg tower for five years. During this time, the National Park Office took over responsibility for the fire guard and the viewing platform, which could be used rent-free. In 2005 the tower became the property of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Functions
Tourist attraction
A staircase with 167 steps leads to the viewing platform at a height of 31 meters, which is about 131 meters above sea level and 69 meters above the water level of the Müritz, which is about five kilometers to the west . From the platform you have a view of the extensive forest areas of the Müritz National Park, various lakes and the Havel spring area . In clear weather you can see as far as the towns of Waren (Müritz) , Röbel , Neustrelitz and sometimes even Neubrandenburg . The tower is open to visitors from May to October and is best reached from Speck on foot or by bike. There is also a stop for the Müritz bus line on Käflingsberg.
No admission is officially required to climb the tower, only a donation to maintain the structure is requested.
Fire watchtower and cell phone transmitter
The high and central location within a large wooded area enables seamless forest fire monitoring and fire localization through visual contact with neighboring fire watch towers. The surveillance pulpit is 36 meters above the ground. Above this is a base station from the operator T-Mobile.
Architecture and technical information
The Käflingsberg tower is a free-standing steel lattice tower with a triangular cross-section. An open steel staircase leads to the viewing platform and the fire station. There is no elevator. The three corner posts of the tower are protected from corrosion by a four-layer mint turquoise ( RAL 6033) coating. Cross connections and steel girders for fastening the stairs are in yellow.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2000 of the Müritz National Park, focus on visitor monitoring (DOC file; 1.4 MB) ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information board on the tower