Local call system
A local call system , also known as local radio , village radio or city radio , is a device for announcing important information within a locality that is almost no longer in use today. The local radio is - contrary to what the name suggests - not broadcast via radio, but via wired loudspeaker systems within the village.
history
Before the beginning of the communication age , the dissemination of news and official announcements was the task of community servants, who in some areas were also called "knockouts" because of the bell they carried with them. Their task was taken over by local radio in some communities in the middle of the 20th century.
Local radio was most widespread in the 1950s. With the better availability of radio, television and daily newspapers in many households, their importance decreased in the course of the 1960s and 1970s to such an extent that in most municipalities operations were stopped again. In some places, however, the systems remained in operation until the 1990s or were reactivated.
Content
The announcements, which were made one or more times a day, were mostly introduced musically, often with marching music. In Meckesheim , for example, marching music was replaced by a string quartet to announce deaths.
The usual contents of the announcements were important dates of village events, such as municipal council meetings, marriages, births, deaths, wood and fruit tree auctions, vaccination dates and lost property, but also non-official items such as club news and the announcement of village festivals.
technology
The local radio was in the real sense a public address system which - as already mentioned above - extended over an entire village or town with a network of loudspeakers. The electrical audio signals were transmitted to the loudspeakers using 100-volt technology via a network of cables. The loudspeakers were either electromagnetic loudspeakers , which could be produced with a sufficiently high impedance due to the static coil, or low-impedance loudspeakers with a voice coil connected via a transformer. This allowed operation with cable lengths of up to a few kilometers without additional amplifiers and power supplies. Because of the high impedance , all speakers could easily be connected in parallel . In the course of technical progress, the loudspeakers were partially replaced by pressure chamber loudspeakers .
Usually there was a small "sound studio" in the town hall with a microphone for recording the announcements and a record player or tape recorder for playing music. The announcements were not recorded, but broadcast directly.
Current examples
Germany
- Albertshofen
- Allendorf (Dautphetal)
- Appenrode , Thuringia
- Beberstedt , Thuringia
- Duttweiler
- Forbach (Baden)
- Friedensdorf (Dautphetal)
- Ifta , Thuringia
- Hügelheim, Müllheim (Baden) , Markgräflerland The announcements made here can also be read on the Internet since July 2010.
- Kappelrodeck
- Kolitzheim-Zeilitzheim
- Laisa
- Leisenwald , Hesse
- Neupotz , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Niederlaasphe , North Rhine-Westphalia (only plant in NRW)
- Pösing ( Upper Palatinate )
- Reichenbuch
- Schoenbach (Herborn)
- Senheim
- Sickershausen
- Waldhausen in the Odenwald
- Waschenbach
- Winningen
- Wipfeld , Bavaria
International
In the area of the former Czechoslovakia , local call systems (městský rozhlas ( Czech ), mestský rozhlas ( Slovak ), German: Stadtfunk) found widespread use in the era of communism. Many of them are still in operation today (2019); quite a few have even been modernized, for example in Roudnice nad Labem .
See also
Web links
- older report about the Pösing local call system
- Direct download of a video from a regional station via the Pösing local call system, approx. 9.8 MB
Remarks
- ↑ Every Thursday at 6 p.m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle Widdershausen / Werra: Der Auseller by Bernd Koch, accessed on June 3, 2018
- ^ Dying parish bells - local call systems in Hessian villages make school . In: Büdinger Kreisblatt . 23rd August 1957.
- ↑ When the news was still echoing from grandma's house wall…. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
- ^ The Nauheim local chronicle by Hermann Reitz
- ↑ Albertshofen (Pau) , on markt.mainpost.de, accessed on June 3, 2018
- ↑ Appenrode has the last village radio in the southern Harz. In: nordhausen.thueringer-allgemeine.de. August 5, 2014, accessed January 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Village radio in Beberstedt remains on the network , Thüringer Allgemeine , accessed on January 4, 2014
- ↑ forbach-online.de: sound document for restarting local radio ( memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Dörfler, hear the signals ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Das Hochgeschrei in Friedensdorf , on welt.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
- ↑ peal from the Town Hall over the village radio , eisenachonline.de, called on January 4, 2014
- ↑ Badische Zeitung , Lokales, Müllheim , May 28, 2013, Volker Münch: badische-zeitung.de: In Müllheim-Hügelheim the local call system survived (September 15, 2013)
- ↑ Badische Zeitung , Lokales, Müllheim , January 10, 2011, Barbara Schmidt: badische-zeitung.de: From Hügelheim into the world (September 15, 2013)
- ↑ Kappelrodeck Always more expensive: Doubts about the legendary local call system , on bo.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
- ↑ Local call system , on laisa.de, accessed on July 3, 2018
- ↑ Tradition preserved: Local radio system officially put back into service - City of Wächtersbach. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
- ^ "Mol calm, de loudspeakers do" , Pfalz-Echo 20/2013
- ↑ The village radio speaks. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; accessed on July 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur , Country Report , May 6, 2013, Michael Watzke : dradio.de: Alle mal herlisten! - There is village news in Pösing via the village loudspeaker (September 15, 2013)
- ↑ TVA makes a film about the Pösing local call system Report about the Pösing local call system on television, on csu-poesing.info
- ↑ Announcements , on sickershausen-kt.de, accessed on June 3, 2018
- ↑ Pascal Ambros: The local call system has been roaring for almost 50 years . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, September 7, 2012, accessed on the same day.
- ^ "Our favorite information system" , www.echo-online.de, accessed on July 3, 2018
- ↑ Local call systems - Der Dorffunk , donaukurier.de, accessed on January 4, 2014