Tegel transmitter
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Tegel transmitter
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| Place: | Berlin Tegel | ||||
| Country: | Berlin | ||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||
| Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 20.4 " N , 13 ° 17 ′ 31.7" E | |||||
| Use: | Broadcasting station | ||||
| Demolition : | December 16, 1948 | ||||
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| Construction time : | 1933 | ||||
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| Operating time: | 1933-1948 | ||||
| Last renovation (tower) : | 1940 | ||||
| Total height : | 86 m | ||||
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| Waveband : | AM station | ||||
| Radio : | MW broadcasting | ||||
| Shutdown : | December 1948 | ||||
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The transmitter Tegel ( ) was a 100 kW medium wave transmitter in the Berlin district of Tegel that was put into operation in 1933 for the Berlin- based transmitter Funk-Stunden Berlin and served as a replacement for the smaller transmitter on the Berlin radio tower .
The transmitter mast was erected on Berlin's Seidelstrasse north of today 's Tegel Airport as a self-supporting wooden construction and initially had a height of 165 meters. The radio technology was supplied by the Telefunken company . The supply line from the transmitter to the transmission mast was carried out via a newly developed high-frequency earth line. The construction costs were around 1.5 million Reichsmarks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 7 million euros). For structural reasons the mast was dismantled in 1940 to a height of 86 meters. From December 20, 1933 to April 1934, the radio hour Berlin program of the radio hour AG Berlin was broadcast on the medium wave frequency 832 kHz. After that, until the end of the Second World War, the Reichsender Berlin reported from Tegel on the new frequency 841 kHz.
On April 22, 1945, the Tegel transmitter was occupied by the Red Army . At the instigation of the Soviet city commander, radio operations on the Tegel transmitter were resumed on May 13, 1945. The broadcast began at 8 p.m. with the announcement “Here is Berlin speaking”. It was initially the only radio program broadcast in Berlin under German responsibility before the Northwest German Broadcasting Company operated a transmitter in the British occupation zone . May 13, 1945 is also considered the founding date of Berliner Rundfunk , which lasted until the end of its privatization in 1992.
The Berliner Rundfunk broadcast its program, which was under the control of the Soviet military administration in Germany , until 1948 from the Tegel station, which had been in the French sector since the end of the war. Because of the endangerment of the air traffic there during the Berlin Airlift , the transmission tower and the tubular steel mast under construction to replace it were blown up by French pioneers on December 16, 1948 at the instigation of the French city commander Jean Ganeval . The technical transmission equipment was sent to the Königs Wusterhausen transmitter located in the Soviet occupation zone near Berlin .
literature
- Gerd Klawitter: 100 years of radio technology in Germany - radio stations around Berlin. ISBN 3-89685-500-X , pp. 61-78.
- Siegfried Hermann, Wolf Kahle, Joachim Kniestedt: The German radio. ISBN 3-7685-2394-2 , p. 159.