Verden transmitter

Transmission mast 2012

Basic data

Place:

Kirchlinteln

Country:

Lower Saxony

Country:

Germany

Altitude :

39 m above sea level NN

Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 34.4 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 22" E

Use:

Telecommunication system

Owner :

German radio tower

Mast data

Construction time :

1966

Client :	German Federal Post Office
Building material :	steel

Operating time:

since 1966

Total height :

202 m

Data on the transmission system

Last modification (transmitter) :

2013

Send types:

Cellular radio , directional radio

Position map

Verden transmitter

The Verden transmitter is a broadcasting facility for television that was built as a lattice mast by the former Deutsche Bundespost in 1966.

location

Contrary to the name, the location is not in the area of the town of Verden (Aller) , but in the area of the municipality of Kirchlinteln , more precisely on the border between the localities of Luttum and Weitzmühlen. Geographically, the facility is located on two pieces of land: the transmitter mast, the company buildings including access roads and the east / north-west guy facilities are in the area of the municipality of Kirchlinteln, the south-west guy facilities are in the area of the city of Verden. The location of the tower is located on a ridge and is 39 m above sea level. NN is one of the highest peaks in the area.

use

The two halves of the GRP cylinder dismantled in 2007

Size comparison of a Pardune and an iPhone 4

Since the introduction of digital terrestrial television and the associated discontinuation of analogue terrestrial television, television broadcasting has been discontinued at the Verden transmitter, as it was not converted for the transmission of digital television.

At the end of 2007 the television antenna and the GRP cylinder surrounding it were dismantled. The transmitter lost 20 meters from its original height of 222 meters.

Since TV broadcasting was discontinued, the lattice mast has only been used as a carrier for cell phone antennas.

Since the end of 2010, a regional Internet service provider has been supplying some surrounding towns with high-speed Internet. The DSL technology in these localities is connected to the Internet via the radio relay systems installed on the radio tower. The directional radio systems were continuously expanded to meet the increasing demand for bandwidth. Many localities have been connected by fiber optic since 2016. The directional radio links have been maintained as a backup since then and are used to compensate for peak loads.

In 2012, LTE transmission antennas and corresponding radio relay systems were installed on the radio tower to feed two mobile network operators. Additional radio relay systems were also installed to supply other surrounding villages. In 2019, the mobile operators T-Mobile and Vodafone made extensive expansions to expand the LTE network.

history

The "radio tower", as it is also called in the area, has become a kind of landmark and is an excellent landmark.

After the transmitter was built towards the end of the 1960s, it broadcast television images using analog technology. Using the techniques of C-Netz , Eurosignal , D-Netz-Mobilfunk up to the transmission of internet traffic, this location has followed the era of digitization and has now returned to its edifice: It transmits television (TV), albeit now via the Internet as a live stream.

In contrast to similar towers, little information was published about the Verden transmitter.

Air accident in 1971

On May 13, 1971, a Dutch "Norfolk F5" fighter jet (presumably a Northrop F-5 fighter aircraft ) was on a training flight from / to Twente when the pilot apparently overlooked the transmitter mast and his guys while flying low . The jet crashed into one of the guys, tearing off a wing and spinning the plane out of control. The pilot tried to save himself with the ejector seat, but was catapulted into the attic of a barn in the neighboring village of Luttum and died there. The machine itself also crashed in Luttum, in a residential building. A major fire developed due to the leaking and immediately igniting kerosene. However, apart from the pilot, there were no other casualties to complain about.

Contribution to nature conservation

There is a peregrine falcon nesting box on the 60 meter platform . This was built by the peregrine falcon protection North Germany eV with the permission of the owner in the early 1990s. Successful broods take place there at regular intervals. In 2018, the nesting box was moved from a location below the 60-meter platform to the 60-meter platform.

owner

The operator and owner of the system is Deutsche Funkturm GmbH (DFMG) based in Münster , a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG .

Former frequencies and programs

Analog television (PAL)

The broadcast of analog television in PAL was discontinued with the introduction of DVB-T . This means that there are no more radio transmissions from this location.

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
25th	503.25	ZDF	66	D (100 °)	H
60	783.25	NDR television (Lower Saxony)	58	D (100 °)	H

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ "From the Turnerkreis to the modern fire brigade - 125 years of the Verden volunteer fire brigade" (Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 1994; p. 59f)

[1] "From the Turnerkreis to the modern fire brigade - 125 years of the Verden volunteer fire brigade" (Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 1994; p. 59f)