Katzenstein transmitter
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Katzenstein transmitter
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| Place: | Katzenstein at Affalter | ||||||
| Country: | Saxony | ||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||
| Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 19.8 " N , 12 ° 45 ′ 36.7" E | |||||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station | ||||||
| Demolition : | 1970s | ||||||
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| Construction time : | 1955 | ||||||
| Building materials : | Concrete , reinforced concrete | ||||||
| Operating time: | 1955-1973 | ||||||
| Last renovation (tower) : | 1963 | ||||||
| Total height : | 60 m | ||||||
| Data on the transmission system | |||||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | July 1965 | ||||||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | ||||||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | ||||||
| Send types: | SECAM , directional radio | ||||||
| Shutdown : | 1973 | ||||||
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The Katzenstein transmitter was a transmission facility for VHF radio and television programs on the Katzenstein not far from the B 169 near Affalter near Karl-Marx-Stadt , which went into operation on December 15, 1955 and was shut down in 1973 after the Geyer transmitter was completed . The system was an important basic network transmitter in the GDR .
history
On August 15, 1955 began on the Katzenstein, halfway between the two GDR district towns of Stollberg / Erzgeb. and Aue (Saxony) , the construction project in which construction workers erected accommodation barracks and laid out an access road to the building site. After the excavation work, the concrete foundations were poured, for which, for example, 200 cubic meters of concrete were required for the tower square.
On October 1, 1955, the masonry work for the building complex began despite the prevailing unfavorable weather conditions on the Katzenstein. On December 15, 1955, the assembly of the 60-meter-high transmission mast was completed a few days ahead of schedule, for which approx. 4,000 tons of material was used. Initially, the station only broadcast the GDR's first program. This gave TV owners in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland a much better reception option. Previously, only a small auxiliary television station on the fourth floor of the tower of a textile factory in Hartmannsdorf had been used, which mainly served the screen owners in Karl-Marx-Stadt and supported the previous television stations in Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden.
In the year the Katzenstein station went into operation, there were only 309 registered television viewers in the entire GDR district of Karl-Marx-Stadt . This number rose to 132,865 by 1960 and was already 380,822 in 1965.
After the start of broadcasting, the technology of the broadcasting system was continuously improved. In November 1957, for example, a directional antenna for broadcasting district-owned programs was increased. The first VHF transmitter was installed in 1961.
A complete renovation with simultaneous commissioning of a surveillance booth for increased transmission quality took place in May 1963. From July 1965 onwards, an additional third VHF program was broadcast by the Katzenstein transmitter.
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Katzenstein station, the employees there were awarded the title of Collective of Socialist Work at the end of 1965 .
Although the first program on television in the GDR, which was broadcast by the Katzenstein station on VHF channel 8 (horizontal), could be received better due to the more northerly location of the radio tower in Vogtland, the Katzenstein station was switched off in 1973 after the Geyer station was built and dismantled the plant.
literature
- Werner Unger : 10 years of television station Katzenstein . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 11, 1966, No. 3, p. 61.
Web links
- Katzenstein transmitter. oldtimeradio.de, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The GDR television network, DDR television channels, television station locations. A representation of the development of television from the "other" Germany - the GDR. In: The DDR TV - DDR TV: List of all DDR TV sets from 1946 to 1989/91 and much more! scheida.at, February 4, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ DM 303/147. TV coverage in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. Federal Archives, accessed on July 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Radio history of the Chemnitz region from the first transmitter to the present day. Retrieved July 5, 2014 .
- ^ Werner Unger : 10 years of television station Katzenstein . In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge , 11, 1966, No. 3, p. 61.
- ^ Former TV station Katzenstein near Chemnitz