Transmitter Königsberg-Amalienau

The two 80 meter high transmission masts on the Alte Pillauer Landstrasse in Koenigsberg - Amalienau with triple T antenna

Basic data

Place:

Kaliningrad - Central Rajon

Oblast:

Kaliningrad

Country:

Russia

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 51.8 " N , 20 ° 28 ′ 8.2" E

Use:

Broadcasting station

Demolition :

Spring 1945

Data on the transmission system

Tower / mast 1
Height:	25 m
Construction time:	1926
Operating time:	1926-1927
Transmitter shutdown:	1927

Tower / mast 2
Height:	30 m
Construction time:	1926
Operating time:	1926-1927
Transmitter shutdown:	1927

Tower / mast 3
Height:	80 m
Construction time:	1927
Operating time:	1927-1935
Transmitter shutdown:	1935

Tower / mast 4
Height:	80 m
Construction time:	1927
Operating time:	1927-1935
Transmitter shutdown:	1935

Tower / mast 5
Height:	102 m
Construction time:	1935
Operating time:	1935-1938
Transmitter shutdown:	May 24, 1938

Tower / mast 6
Height:	50 m
Construction time:	1938
Operating time:	1938-1945
Transmitter shutdown:	Spring 1945

Waveband :

AM station

Radio :

MW broadcasting

Further data

Commissioning :

December 22, 1926

Position map

Transmitter Königsberg-Amalienau

The transmitter Königsberg-Amalienau was a medium wave transmitter for the radio program "Königsberg II" of the Ostmarken Rundfunk AG (ORAG, from April 1, 1934 Reichssender Königsberg ). The radio station on Alte Pillauer Landstrasse in the Amalienau district of Königsberg ( East Prussia ) was in operation from December 22, 1926.

The transmission power was initially 1.5 kW. The transmitting antenna was a double T antenna that was suspended between two 25 and 30 meter high wooden masts. This first makeshift antenna was replaced by a triple T antenna in March 1927. Two lattice towers made of spruce wood, each 80 meters high and set up 100 meters apart, carried the new antenna. The “transmitter house” or “control building”, in which the electrical systems were housed, stood in the middle between the masts.

From January 15, 1935, the transmission power increased to 2 kW. As with most German transmitters of the time, a free-standing wooden tower with a hollow copper cable was used as the antenna carrier. The shrinkage- reducing half-wave single-wire antenna had a roof capacity on the top for electrical extension . The around 100 meter high wooden tower was part of the Heilsberg transmitter until 1935 . In 1938 a 50 meter high self-radiating transmission mast made of round steel was erected, which took over the function of the wooden tower on May 24th of the same year. The facility was probably destroyed in the spring of 1945 by the fighting in the Battle of East Prussia .

Excerpt from a Königsberg city map from 1931

literature

Die Form, magazine for creative work , 3rd year 1927/1928, issue 2, p. 58. (with illustration of the "transmitter house" or "control building")
Andreas Brudnjak: The history of the German medium-wave transmission systems from 1923 to 1945. Funk-Verlag Hein, Dessau-Roßlau 2010, ISBN 978-3-939197-51-5 , pages 86-89, page 115.