Local call system

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Pressure chamber loudspeakers , as they were also used in local call systems.

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

Local call system Pösing, loudspeaker type 1
City call system in Bad Langensalza

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

Loudspeaker announcement of the Pösing local call system

Germany

International

Typical arrangement of a local call system in the area of ​​the former Czechoslovakia

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Every Thursday at 6 p.m.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle Widdershausen / Werra: Der Auseller by Bernd Koch, accessed on June 3, 2018
  2. ^ Dying parish bells - local call systems in Hessian villages make school . In: Büdinger Kreisblatt . 23rd August 1957.
  3. ↑ When the news was still echoing from grandma's house wall…. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Nauheim local chronicle by Hermann Reitz
  5. ↑ Albertshofen (Pau) , on markt.mainpost.de, accessed on June 3, 2018
  6. ↑ Appenrode has the last village radio in the southern Harz. In: nordhausen.thueringer-allgemeine.de. August 5, 2014, accessed January 14, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Village radio in Beberstedt remains on the network , Thüringer Allgemeine , accessed on January 4, 2014
  8. ↑ forbach-online.de: sound document for restarting local radio ( memento from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Dörfler, hear the signals ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Das Hochgeschrei in Friedensdorf , on welt.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
  11. ↑ peal from the Town Hall over the village radio , eisenachonline.de, called on January 4, 2014
  12. ↑ Badische Zeitung , Lokales, Müllheim , May 28, 2013, Volker Münch: badische-zeitung.de: In Müllheim-Hügelheim the local call system survived (September 15, 2013)
  13. ↑ Badische Zeitung , Lokales, Müllheim , January 10, 2011, Barbara Schmidt: badische-zeitung.de: From Hügelheim into the world (September 15, 2013)
  14. ↑ Kappelrodeck Always more expensive: Doubts about the legendary local call system , on bo.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
  15. ↑ Local call system , on laisa.de, accessed on July 3, 2018
  16. ↑ Tradition preserved: Local radio system officially put back into service - City of Wächtersbach. Retrieved July 19, 2019 .
  17. ^ "Mol calm, de loudspeakers do" , Pfalz-Echo 20/2013
  18. ↑ The village radio speaks. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014 ; accessed on July 3, 2018 .
  19. ↑ 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)
  20. ↑ TVA makes a film about the Pösing local call system Report about the Pösing local call system on television, on csu-poesing.info
  21. ↑ Announcements , on sickershausen-kt.de, accessed on June 3, 2018
  22. ↑ Pascal Ambros: The local call system has been roaring for almost 50 years . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, September 7, 2012, accessed on the same day.
  23. ^ "Our favorite information system" , www.echo-online.de, accessed on July 3, 2018
  24. ↑ Local call systems - Der Dorffunk , donaukurier.de, accessed on January 4, 2014