Ohrsberg Tower

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Ohrsberg Tower
Image of the object
Basic data
Place: Eberbach
Country: Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany
Altitude : 237  m above sea level NN
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 8 ° 59 ′ 23.2 ″  E
Use: Observation tower
Accessibility: Transmission tower open to the public
Tower data
Building material : concrete
Data on the transmission system
Position map
Ohrsberg Tower (Baden-Württemberg)
Ohrsberg Tower
Ohrsberg Tower
Localization of Baden-Württemberg in Germany

The Ohrsberg Tower is a lookout tower on the Ohrsberg , a 237 meter high elevation near Eberbach in the Odenwald . From the Ohrsberg tower there is a view over the Neckar valley around Eberbach.

history

The tower was built in 1970. However, excavations show that there was a tower on the Ohrsberg before that, presumably as part of a fortification .

Broadcasting station

Before the switch to DVB-T, the Ohrsberg tower also served as a transmission location for analog television:

channel Frequency  
(MHz)
program ERP
(kW)
Transmission diagram
round (ND) /
directional (D)
Polarization
horizontal (H) /
vertical (V)
12 224.25 The First (SWR) 0.001 ND V

Web links

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