Transmitter Stuttgart-Degerloch

The Stuttgart-Degerloch transmitter was a radio transmitter on the farm field south of Stuttgart- Degerloch . It was put into operation in 1926 by the Deutsche Reichspost for the Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG) and broadcast its radio program on medium wave until 1930 . From 1950 one of the two 100 meter high transmission masts was used by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) to broadcast its two radio programs on VHF until the location was replaced by the Stuttgart TV tower in 1956 and the masts were then dismantled.

history

The system went into operation on November 28, 1926 and used a T-antenna as a transmitting antenna , which was suspended from two 100-meter-high, free-standing steel lattice towers. The HF output power of the transmitter used was 1.5 kW, which improved radio reception in the greater Stuttgart area compared to the previously used transmitter on the Pragsattel with 250 W output power, but - as it soon turned out - no nationwide radio coverage of Württemberg , North Baden and Hohenzollern allowed. At the same time, a transmitter in Freiburg (Kirchstrasse 4) was put into operation to supply southern Baden .

The Stuttgart-Degerloch location was shut down as early as December 20, 1930, when the Mühlacker major station went into operation . When the Mühlacker transmitter was being renovated in 1933/34, it was temporarily put back into operation. After that, however, the system components were not removed; they also survived World War II . In 1950, the Süddeutsche Rundfunk set up a VHF transmitter for its first radio program on one of the two towers , followed by another VHF transmitter for the second radio program in 1951. The commissioning of the Stuttgart television tower in 1956 made the transmitter on the courtyard superfluous and the first of the two towers torn down. The second tower followed a little later.

Nevertheless, the Stuttgart-Degerloch transmitter was still listed on many map series until the 1980s. Today there is a housing estate with flat roof houses on the area of the former transmitter area. The street names near the radio towers , Nauener Straße and Norddeichweg are still reminiscent of the former transmitter location.

Coordinates of the former transmission towers

The positions were determined using an old aerial photograph:

South tower: 48 ° 44'2.31 "N 9 ° 10'32.12" E
North tower: 48 ° 44'6.93 "N 9 ° 10'32.28" E

At the radio towers
Nauener Strasse
Norddeichweg