Radio and Telephone Museum Wertingen
The radio and telephone museum Wertingen is a museum in Wertingen in the district of Dillingen an der Donau . It opened as a radio museum in 2012 . In January 2015 it was expanded to include a telephone museum. Every third Sunday of the month, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., the Wertingen Radio and Telephone Museum can be visited at Fére-Straße 1. Lectures on radio and television history are regularly presented on the premises from 3 p.m. Entry is free.
Guided tours are possible at any time after registering by telephone with the city of Wertingen on 08272-84196.
Radio museum
The collection of the Radio Museum began as a donation of over 80 radios and records from Heinz Hippele from Geratshofen to the city of Wertingen in 2007 (Hippele Collection). This collection is part of the local history museum in Wertingen Castle . Another donation of 160 devices followed by the widow of Hans Wald from Meitingen (Wald Collection). The opening of the radio museum for the collected exhibits of the city museums was announced as early as 2009, the opening then took place in September 2012. Added to this was the Maxzin collection contributed by Heinz Maxzin, a former teacher in Augsburg . The Radio and Telephone Museum received another beautiful collection of eleven devices in July 2016 from Miguel Frübös from Passau.
The radio and telephone museum is located in the former vocational school at Fére-Straße 1 and is housed in five exhibition rooms. The exhibition includes radios from the years 1920 to 1960. A total of more than 600 exhibits are on display.
Telephone Museum
The basis for the Telephone Museum was a permanent loan of 46 exhibits from the Postlerhütte Augsburg (Postlerhütte Augsburg collection). The collection of the Telephone Museum comprises around 220 exhibits from telephone history and is located in a separate room.
Local transmitter Wertingen MW 801 kHz
In 2016 the museum received the license from the Federal Network Agency to set up the local transmitter Wertingen in the museum and to transmit it with a power of one watt on the medium wave frequency 801 kHz. The first broadcast, compiled by "Broadcasting Manager" Bernd Schmid, volunteer at the Radio and Telephone Museum, ran on the occasion of World Radio Day on February 13, 2016 at 2 p.m. Bernd Schmid from Bocksberg . has now also received official approval to extend the range to the urban area for some major events. The station was donated by Helmut Rau from Qui Various . Recordings are broadcast within a radius of 300 meters.
In autumn 2018, the station was expanded to become an event station . The event broadcasts about major events may be broadcast with greater power and can be received within a radius of three to four kilometers. On October 28, 2018, an event program on the Wertingen autumn market was broadcast for the first time from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., which could be received throughout the city.
literature
- Günter Stauch: The radio and telephone museum Wertingen ; in: The Archive 02/2016, German Society for Postal and Telecommunication History , 2016, pp. 71–73. ( Preview ), Wertinger Zeitung, Wertingen city newspaper.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radiomuseum will soon also show telephones. Augsburger Allgemeine , October 13, 2014.
- ↑ museum Wertingen museum Wertingen - Radio equipment collection Hippele. Bayerisch-Schwaben.de
- ↑ Erich Wandschneider: Radio Museum Wetingen. The radios have been silent for three years. Augsburger Allgemeine, August 22, 2012.
- ↑ Benjamin Reif: The device that made the spark jump. Augsburger Allgemeine, February 24, 2017.
- ↑ The beginnings of radio. Presentation by Heinz Maxzin. Augsburger Allgemeine, August 9, 2017.
- ^ Wertinger Radio Museum. City of Wertingen; accessed on January 26, 2019.
- ^ Wertingen Telephone Museum. City of Wertingen; accessed on January 26, 2019.
- ↑ Radio and Telephone Museum Wertingen. International Museum Day .
- ↑ Otto Killenberger: World Day of the radio in Wertinger Radio and Telephone Museum. myheimat.de, February 13, 2016.
- ↑ Otto Killensberger: The local transmitter Wertingen MW 801 Khz. StadtZeitung , July 15, 2018.
- ↑ Wertingen has its own radio station. About medium wave 801 there is information in a circle of 300 meters. Augsburger Allgemeine, August 3, 2018.
- ^ First museum radio station in Swabia on medium wave 801 kHz. infosat.de, October 19, 2018.
- ↑ Christopher Deppe: First museum radio in Swabia goes on air. Radio scene, October 24, 2018.
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