Wartburg transmitter
The Wartburg transmitter was a radio transmitter for radio in Thuringia that was put into operation in Eisenach in April 1926 by Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) .
history
MIRAG, founded in Leipzig on January 22nd, 1924, was one of the first large, national broadcasting companies in Germany after the introduction of entertainment broadcasting in Germany in 1923 . After the "meeting points" (former designation for a radio studio) went into operation on January 24, 1925 in Weimar, on August 4 in Erfurt and in Jena in 1925, the fourth Thuringian studio was set up on the Wartburg in April 1926 ; it was located in the premises the so-called Knight's Bath , which was created as a small extension immediately south of the Palas during the Wartburg restoration and initially had the best conditions for a studio. Two recording locations were used in the castle grounds, they were in the banquet hall of the Palas and in a room in the Wartburg Hotel ; a third location was later set up in the city of Eisenach, in the Hotel Fürstenhof .
Due to the early technical development of the recording technology , the transmitting and receiving devices , in the early years only direct transmission from the recording location was possible, it was broadcast live. The duration and technical quality of the broadcasts were still severely limited by atmospheric disturbances and the inadequacies of the early broadcast technology, and despite all this, the interest in the population was enormous.
Due to the constant improvement of the transmission technology, the temporary facility on the Wartburg was operated until the 1990s. In 1967 the celebrations for the 900th anniversary of the Wartburg and in 1983 the Luther honor were conferred. The Wartburg concerts have been broadcast since 1958 .
One of the milestones was the VHF studio technology, which went into operation in 1967, for broadcasting the Wartburg concerts on Radio DDR II ( Weimar broadcaster ); this broadcast has been in stereo quality since May 1981. In 1986 the studio moved to part of the intermediate building at the keep and was completed by 1988. Since the political change in autumn 1989, the Wartburg has become one of the most frequently used conference locations for political, church and cultural events in Thuringia.
literature
- Torsten Unger From suitcase studio to media center. The history of broadcasting in Thuringia. Publisher Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad. Altenburg 2006, ISBN 3-930550-22-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutschlandfunk Kultur - Wartburg Concerts. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .