Thurnau transmitter

Thurnau transmitter
Basic data
Place:	Tannfeld
Country:	Bavaria
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	522  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 14.8 "  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 36.1"  E
Use:	Broadcasting station
Accessibility:	Transmission mast not open to the public
Owner :	Media broadcast
Mast data
Construction time :	1979-1980
Building material :	steel
Operating time:	1980-2015
Total height :	240  m
Data on the transmission system
Waveband :	AM station
Radio :	MW broadcasting
Position map
Thurnau transmitter

Height diagram of the transmission masts of the long and medium wave transmitters of the Deutschlandfunk

End tube with 100 kW

Later> = 50 modules with 2 kW each replace the end tube

Mast isolator

Blown mast of the medium wave transmitter Thurnau

The Thurnau transmitter was a 200 kW medium wave transmitter of the Deutsche Bundespost for the frequency 549 kHz near Tannfeld near Thurnau in Upper Franconia , reduced to 100 kW in the mid-1990s, then operated by Media Broadcast GmbH . As a transmitting antenna, he used a 240-meter-high self-radiating steel truss mast, insulated from the earth , with a star-shaped, 250-meter-diameter earth network. Together with the Nordkirchen transmitter in North Rhine-Westphalia , broadcasting was carried out in single-frequency mode . 11 million D-Marks were invested in the transmitter location .

On December 31, 2015, the transmitter was switched off as one of the last remaining German medium wave transmitters. The mast was blown up on February 27, 2018.

Web links

• Thurnau transmitter. In: Structurae
• Hansjörg Biener: Thurnau 549 kHz ( Memento from May 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Commons : Sender Thurnau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The transmitter will be switched off on New Year's Eve in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 19./20. December 2015, p. 29
2. ↑ Nordbayerischer Kurier ( Memento from February 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )