Heinrich Hertz Tower

Heinrich Hertz Tower Radio transmission point Hamburg 22
Basic data
Place:	Hamburg
Country:	Hamburg
Country:	Germany
Altitude :	23.5  m above sea level NHN
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 47 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 33"  E
Use:	Telecommunications tower , broadcasting station
Accessibility:	Transmission tower not open to the public
Owner :	German radio tower
Tower data
Construction time :	1966-1968
Construction costs : 57.2 million DM Client : German Federal Post Office Architect : Fritz Trautwein , Rafael Behn Building materials : Concrete , steel , reinforced concrete
Operating time:	since May 1, 1968
Last renovation (tower) :	Fall 2005
Total height :	279.2  m
Operation room:	150  m
Total mass :	43,000  t
Closure of the viewing platform:	January 1, 2001
Data on the transmission system
Last modification (antenna) :	2004
Waveband :	FM transmitter
Radio :	VHF broadcasting
Send types:	DVB-T, DAB , cable headend , cellular radio , directional radio
Position map
Heinrich Hertz Tower

The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm is a 279.2 meter high television tower in Hamburg-St. Pauli , which is mainly used to broadcast radio and television programs , is considered one of the city's landmarks and is popularly called “Telemichel”. The television tower, named after the German physicist Heinrich Hertz , who was born in Hamburg, is a landmark that characterizes the city's skyline . The television tower, built from 1966 to 1968, is the sixth highest in Germany . Architecturally striking are its two separate tower baskets for the viewing and restaurant floors as well as the operating floor for the telecommunications technology. Since 2001 the tower can no longer be used by the public as a lookout tower . The Heinrich Hertz Tower is a listed building .

history

planning

Until the 1960s, the bunker at Heiligengeistfeld was Hamburg's hub and focus of telecommunications. However, the structure could no longer accommodate the increasing number of antennas. With the growing number of high-rise buildings, the location no longer met the requirements resulting from the straight propagation of radio waves. For this reason, the Deutsche Bundespost , which was responsible for broadcasting the second and third television programs , decided in the early 1960s to have a high-performance telecommunications tower built in Hamburg. For this purpose, an architecture competition was launched, in the final round of which seven project designs competed against each other. The town planners expressed the wish to equip the telecommunications tower with a restaurant and a public viewing platform. Although at the beginning of the planning in 1962 the Hamburg architects spoke out against the "boring concrete pipe by Leonhardt ", Fritz Trautwein's design, which was based on this principle, won. Ultimately, Trautwein's proposal was particularly convincing because it was more cost-effective than the alternative.

construction

Construction of the Hamburg television tower began in April 1965. The foundation stone was laid on May 25th by the then Federal Post Minister Richard Stücklen .

The foundation pit of the television tower was dug on marl-containing soil. The ring foundation was made of prestressed concrete and, despite the subsoil, has a soil pressure of 7 kg / cm². Wayss & Freytag carried out the entire construction work . The group Fritz Trautwein and Rafael Behn from Hamburg and Fritz Leonhardt from Stuttgart are responsible for the design, construction and organization. The statics and construction were carried out by the Stuttgart office Leonhardt and Andrä.

The tower shaft was made using climbing formwork. For this purpose, sheet steel panels 2.5 meters high and 50 centimeters wide were used. In order to achieve the highest possible strength, the high-quality concrete type B450 was used for the shaft . B600 was even used for the area between 117.50 meters and 160 meters in height. Steel bars 12 meters long and 28 millimeters thick were used for the vertical reinforcement . For the lower shaft area, three platforms were set up for shuttering, reinforcing, concreting and stripping. Below this scaffolding there were two working platforms for installing and removing the stiffening of the elevator shaft attached to the shaft. Up to a height of 135 meters, the concreting work was carried out on three independent scaffolding groups. When the 2.5 meter high concreting process was completed, the 100-tonne scaffolding structure was lifted accordingly using electric winches . The elevator shaft served as a pillar for the scaffolding and the climbing crane . During the greatest work performance, 40 workers were employed day and night on each of the 13 working platforms. Each concreting section required 41 work steps on the scaffolding and 109 in the production of the shaft. With the decreasing shaft diameter, the work became easier, so that from a height of 135 meters, a lighter scaffold head of 60 tons could be lifted by four hydraulic winches to the corresponding working height.

The two tower baskets were created in so-called conical shell constructions, which allows particularly large diameters. The lower, gently sloping conical shell forms a triangular hollow box profile with the horizontal floor ceiling, which was designed as a girder construction due to its large span. The shell was hinged to the tower shaft with a shallow groove only three centimeters deep . Annular prestressed tendons run at the outer joint of the shell and ceiling so that the structure is largely under pressure and cracks are avoided. The roofs of the tower pulpits also consist of shell structures. The downward-hanging shell is mounted on the shaft with a five-centimeter-deep groove so that it can move horizontally, so that no additional stresses arise in the case of temperature differences in the roof shell. The bearings are secured against shearing off with flat steel rings .

Aerial photo of the Heinrich Hertz Tower in 1968

To equip the lower conical shells of the tower pulpits, a steel frame was pre-assembled on the ground, which was hoisted to a height of 150 meters with the help of three winches on August 3, 1966. The shaft diameter, which is smaller in height, had to be compensated for by corresponding hinged supports. The scaffolding, which weighs around 140 tons, was suspended from 48 outer and 24 inner support rods. After the formwork and reinforcement had been completed, around 440 cubic meters of concrete were poured in sections into opposite segments. After production of the horizontal ceiling and the setting of the concrete, the lower conical shell was biased and dissolved the support rods. The scaffolding could then be lowered to 127 meters in order to repeat the process for the lower conical shell of the restaurant pulpit below. At the same time, the ceiling of the telecommunications operator's pulpit was concreted and the upper shell was made. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on June 23, 1967 .

The total cost is given as 57.2 million marks. Of this, the Deutsche Bundespost contributed around 20 million marks for the building construction and the restaurant company 11.7 million marks. The value of the telecommunications equipment including the structure on the telecommunications tower is put at 25.5 million marks.

Since opening

Heinrich-Hertz-Turm 1973 during the IGA

Ticket for a single ascent and descent

The tower was opened to visitors on April 12, 1968. The official opening followed on May 1, 1968. With a total height of 271.50 meters, it was the second highest in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Munich Olympic Tower . The installation of the telecommunications equipment began on July 25, 1968.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the concrete surface of the Hamburg television tower was given a protective white coating, as the material had been damaged over the decades due to the exhaust gases from the Hamburg port.

The catering and viewing platform has been closed since January 1, 2001. After the tower had to be renovated due to asbestos pollution , the owner - Deutsche Funkturm (DFMG), a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom based in Münster  - was unable to find a new tenant for the premises. After the first concrete parts came loose from a height of 160 meters in the winter of 2004/05, the exterior has been extensively renovated with the help of two motor-driven scaffolding since autumn 2005. At the same time, after sandblasting and priming, the steel mesh part was given a new red and white paint.

After four years of vacancy, the rooms also lost due to the modernization of the beginning of 2005 grandfathered , so that the formerly publicly accessible areas of the tower first to the since its construction in 1968 intensified before re-opening escape route be adapted determinations for an estimated ten million euros would have - as Escape route stairs z. B. would have to be expanded from the current 80 to 125 cm width. Another five million euros are to be estimated for the rest of the expansion. The district manager of Hamburg-Mitte has been looking for sponsors for a new use since 2010; a sale of the naming rights to the tower is not excluded. After the renovation, the rooms are in the "shell condition" according to the operator.

Antenna change in 2004

Until the end of 2001, the event company Jochen Schweizer operated a fixed bungee jumping station there, which should be reopened if access becomes possible again. However, after a fatal accident at the Florian Tower in Dortmund in 2003, Deutsche Funkturm GmbH no longer allows bungee jumping on its towers.

On November 8, 2004, most of the analog TV channels in the Hamburg / Lübeck area were switched off and TV broadcasting switched to digital transmission ( DVB-T ). For this purpose, on September 25, 2004, the three encapsulated antenna segments, each around 3 meters high and weighing around four tons, were replaced with the help of the Russian heavy-lift helicopter Kamow Ka-32 . To do this, the helicopter had to transport the antenna parts from a collection point to the tip six times. The entire action lasted around seven hours. The tower has been eight meters higher since then. Up to March 1, 2005, some public service programs were broadcast in parallel in analogue mode, then these remaining analogue channels were also switched off. Since then, television programs in the Hamburg area have been broadcast exclusively digitally.

At the beginning of March 2007, in cooperation with the Hamburg Freezers ice hockey team, the artist Michael Batz set up special lighting for the viewing platform from the inside. Similar to his Blue Goals project , blue fluorescent tubes were used. The lighting served as an advertisement for the Freezers' play-offs and ran for two weeks from March 5, 2007.

According to a report in the Bild newspaper in 2010, structural engineers are said to have awarded the tower a maximum durability of 30 years; Then at the latest, the building fabric is no longer able to react elastically to the vibrations. Both Telekom and various architects, including the Stuttgart civil engineer Jörg Schlaich , who was responsible for building the tower, have contradicted this.

Refurbishment and reopening

In 2011, the Heinrich Hertz Tower hit the headlines as a result of a spectacular renovation plan by Danish architect Christian Bay-Jørgensen. He planned to build a shell around the tower, which should also serve as a hotel. Although the attempt to revive the tower after it was closed to the public in 2001 through appropriate measures met with approval, the major change in its listed building structure also aroused skepticism.

In mid-2014, the entrepreneurs Heinfried Strauch, Martin Dencker and Hartmut Witte formed an expert group consisting of experts in architecture, fire protection, elevator technology as well as marketing, sponsoring, fundraising and crowdfunding, who pushed ahead with the renovation of the television tower. From this constellation of people, the "Stiftung Fernsehturm Hamburg Aufwärts" was founded in 2015. In the same year, the preliminary building permit for the Hamburg television tower was obtained together with the Architecture and Fire Protection Working Group. That was the prerequisite for being able to carry out a feasibility study and, in the event of a positive result, to release monument protection funds from Berlin and Hamburg. The cost of the renovation, which includes the installation of new elevators and new fire protection, is estimated at around 37 million euros. 50% are borne by the federal government, the other 50% is taken over by the state of Hamburg. According to the forecast at the time, a reopening would have been possible in 2018 at the earliest.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening, the Mayor of Hamburg Peter Tschentscher announced on May 4, 2018 that the television tower would be open to the public again in 2023.

At the beginning of June 2020 it was announced that three new operators had been found for a planned reopening in 2023. In addition to Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH itself, these are Ramp106 GmbH / Online Marketing Rockstars (OMR) by Philipp Westermeyer and Home United Management GmbH with Managing Director Tomislav Karajica . The renovation, which will be carried out by Deutsche Funkturm GmbH (DFMG) as the owner, will initially take until 2023 . The three operators then set up the management, which should then run over a period of 20 years. Half of the federal government and the city of Hamburg will provide 37 million euros for the renovation.

description

Environment and location

The Heinrich Hertz Tower is embedded in the Hamburg cityscape, with the Outer Alster in the background

The Hamburg TV tower stands at 23.5  m above sea level. NN height west of the Outer Alster opposite the Planten un Blomen park in front of the new halls of the Hamburg Messe on the Rentzelstrasse bridge over the connecting railway . In addition to the tower, the approximately 8,000 square meter property also included an eleven meter high company building, a garage with 125 parking spaces, a kitchen and an entrance building. The building on the west side of the area also housed the power supply and cooling systems as well as some operating points. The entrance hall was connected to the park by a bridge. In the meantime, this part of the site has been torn down and is now part of the Hamburg Exhibition Center and the shaft of the tower is now exposed.

The location fell due to the favorable location for the optimal telecommunications supply to Hamburg near the radio relay systems installed at the time on the bunker Feldstrasse in Heiligengeistfeld and the now abandoned telecommunications office 1 in Schlüterstrasse. The attachment of the tower to the Planten un Blomen park was a useful addition to the local recreation area and the economic use of the observation tower.

The location of the Heinrich Hertz Tower is also well chosen from an architectural point of view. Due to the low level of development in the area, it is very well perceived from practically all of the roads leading towards it. The perception in the more distant urban area of ​​Hamburg is also above average. The tower is evenly and intensely visible from a total of 22 locations on major roads at a distance of three kilometers. This makes the TV tower in Hamburg one of the most visible landmarks in the city due to its location .

Foundation and shaft

Badge on the tower shaft

Hamburg's Heinrich Hertz Tower is on a circular base with 41 meters in diameter founded . The ring is 8 meters wide and 3.10 meters high and has a ring tensile force of around 40 kN. The foundation shell in the form of a truncated cone is located underground and was cast from B450 concrete. The ring is pre-tensioned with 40 bundles of twelve steel wires, each of which has a diameter of 12.2 millimeters. The subsoil consists of fine and medium sands and boulder clay . The maximum settlement is 8 centimeters.

The tower has a total height including the antenna mast of 279.2 meters, of which 204 meters were made of reinforced concrete. The concrete shaft was divided into 33 floors, three of which are located in the underground foundation cone. The shaft tapers in diameter from 16.5 meters at the foot to 6 meters at its end. The wall thickness decreases from 90 centimeters at the foot to 30 centimeters at the shaft end. The shaft was cast from B450 concrete, with the exception of the section where the two pulpits are between 117.50 meters and 160 meters high. There the shaft was made of B600 concrete. A 75.2 meter high antenna carrier is attached to the concrete shaft.

In the core of the shaft is the elevator shaft, which accommodates two passenger elevators for 18 people each. These have a conveying speed of 6 m / s and took over the public traffic to the restaurant pulpit. There is also a smaller company elevator for eight people or a load capacity of 600 kilograms with a conveyor speed of 3 m / s. An emergency staircase with 1,100 steps made of steel connects the basement of the building with the roof platform.

A metal plaque with the words Heinrich Hertz - The Son of the City of Hamburg in capital letters is attached to the tower shaft.

Tower baskets

Tower baskets and antenna carriers of the Heinrich Hertz Tower

The most striking structures are the two separate tower baskets . The lower so-called restaurant pulpit extends over three storey heights. The 12th floor is a technical room. The 13th floor at a height of 123.80 meters housed the viewing platform, the 14th floor at 127.05 meters housed the revolving restaurant . In contrast to most of the other ring disks that rotate on wheels, the disk in the Hamburg revolving restaurant moves on slide rails. The total height of this pulpit is 14.35 meters at the shaft and has a mass of around 2500 tons and a live load of 800 tons. Their maximum diameter is 32.16 meters. The lower cone shell is made of reinforced concrete and was articulated. The parapets and lintels of the outer walls consist of precast concrete parts. The double glazed windows are embedded in steel truss profiles with aluminum high profile frames. The interior walls are as out fachtes implemented steel truss. While the utility rooms are laid out with stone tiles, the hallways on the restaurant floor have artificial stone. The public area has a wool carpet covering.

Above the restaurant pulpit is the disc-shaped operating pulpit at 150.1 meters. Its diameter measures 38.80 meters and is 15.35 meters high on the shaft. It has a mass of around 3200 tons with a payload of around 950 tons. Like the viewing platform, the operating platform is cast from B450 concrete. The pulpit also consists of three floors. The lower climatic floor in the lower conical shell and the upper shunting floor below the roof shell are windowless. Only the operating floor can be seen as such from the outside through a narrow strip of windows .

Antenna platforms and mast supports

The tower shaft continues above the operating pulpit, from which a total of six platforms with different diameters protrude . The lowest, so-called reporting platform, measures 16.50 meters in diameter. This is for short-term, current events, e.g. B. sports events, required radio links provided. The four antenna platforms above for directional radio antennas are initially wider and then narrower. They are each 22 meters, 20.50 meters, 19 meters and 17.50 meters in diameter. The topmost, so-called roof platform, has a diameter of 16 meters and forms the end of the concrete shaft with the 33rd floor. The thickness of the prefabricated cone shells varies between 15 and 25 centimeters. The support was carried out by offset on the tower shaft. The roof platform houses a rail- mounted hoist for mounting the antennas. The crane has a telescopic boom that can be rotated twice and has a payload of two tons. The maximum radius is 25 meters, its lifting speed 30 m / min. A counter-pulling winch weighing 500 kilograms is located on the operating floor of the tower.

A 67.5 meter high antenna mast was originally placed on the 204 meter high reinforced concrete tower. This six-legged lattice mast was made of welded steel tubes. The antenna fields for the radio paging service, the public mobile land radio service and, in the upper part, the antennas for broadcasting the 2nd and 3rd television programs were located on it. The red and white painted mast was divided into three tapered sections with smaller platforms in between. When the antenna tip was changed in 2004, the structure grew by around eight meters; the original steel lattice mast remained almost unchanged. The antenna carrier as well as the telescopic crane and the rotating platform for the tower restaurant were built and installed by Friedrich Krupp AG .

Safety devices and technology

In addition to a fault alarm system , the security equipment of the television tower includes a fire alarm system , a building protection system and a door monitoring system. The messages converge in the company building and are displayed optically and acoustically.

In order to be able to supply the structure with tap water and extinguishing water, a pressure booster system was installed, from which up to 600 liters of water per minute can be drawn at a pressure of almost 400 Pascal . In addition, in the event of a fire, a supply air fan in the tower shaft ensures that up to 40,000 cubic meters of air per hour can be extracted to keep smoke free. The exhaust air reaches the outside through 16 exhaust openings. At the same time, this system can supply the restaurant with emergency air. All 15 ventilation systems in the operating rooms in the tower and in the foot structures achieve an hourly output of 288,000 cubic meters of supply air. All rooms are fully air-conditioned ; the chillers required for this achieve an output of 980 kW.

For reasons of flight safety, the tallest building in Hamburg is equipped with the following flight warning systems:

• 40 obstruction lights, red light (32.5 cd each  ), in 50, 100, 153 (operating pulpit), 207 (beginning of lattice mast), 250 meters high and on the top (279.2 meters)
• 5 hazard lights, red light (2000 cd each), 4 at 166 and 1 at 250 meters
• 3 high-performance rotating lights at a height of 207 meters for white light (40 million cd each)
• Colored daytime identification of the antenna mast (204 to 279.2 meters high), each 6 meter wide stripes, alternating red and white; beginning and ending with a red stripe

The rotating lights can be monitored and operated both from the tower and directly from Hamburg Airport .

power supply

The television tower is supplied with energy from the high-voltage network (6 kV) of Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke AG (HEW) via two transformers with 1600 kVA each. In the event of a power failure, the most important functions can be maintained via an emergency generator with an output of 520 kVA. The seamless telecommunications supply is ensured by three diesel-powered flywheel converter systems and other emergency power systems.

The heating supply in the tower is provided by the district heating network of Vattenfall Wärme Hamburg GmbH (formerly HEW). The connected load roughly corresponds to that of 40 single-family houses. The consumers at the base of the tower and in the company building are fed directly from the HEW network, while the consumers in the telecommunications operating floor are fed via another network with heat exchangers and circulation pumps .

Broadcast programs

One of the main tasks, the forwarding of telecommunication connections via microwave links , is increasingly being taken over by fiber optic cables and satellite links that go directly from the user. Nevertheless, the tower remains one of the most important infrastructure buildings , without which mobile communications , landline networks , television, police and customs radio would be largely paralyzed in Hamburg .

Analog radio ( FM )

In the case of directed radiation, the main radiation directions are given in degrees in the antenna diagram.

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
89.1	Deutschlandfunk culture	Dlf_Kult	D220	-	0.1	ND	H
91.7	917xfm	9_1_7xfm	1055	-	0.15	D (40 ° -130 °, 160 ° -250 °, 290 ° -10 °)	H
93.0	Free transmitter Kombinat	FSK_93.0	1054	-	0.1	D (40 ° -130 °, 160 ° -250 °, 290 ° -10 °)	H
93.4	delta radio	delta-HH ,  _delta__	D7E9 (regional),  D3E9	Hamburg	2	D (270 ° -290 °)	H
95.0	Hamburg two	HH_ZWEI_	1451	-	0.3	ND	H
96.0	TIDE 96.0   Hamburg local radio	TIDE96.0   HLR_96.0	1056	-	0.2	D (250 ° -60 °, 120 ° -150 °)	H
97.1	Energy Hamburg	_ENERGY_	1B16	-	0.3	ND	H
98.1	Classic radio	CLASSIC_	D75B	-	1	ND	H
100.0	R.SH Hamburg	R.SH-HH_   __R.SH__	D7E8 (regional),  D3E8	Hamburg	2	D (270 ° -290 °)	H
104.0	Radio Hamburg city window	CITY_104   RADIO_HH 1)	1053 (regional),  D358		0.3	ND	H

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Digital radio ( DAB )

DAB is broadcast in vertical polarization and in single-frequency mode with other programs. DAB Block 12C has been out of service since August 1, 2011.

block	Programs	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Single frequency network (SFN)
5C DR Germany (D__00188)	DAB + block of media broadcast: Absolutely relax (72 kbps) Dlf (104 kbps) Dlf culture (112 kbps) DLF Nova (104 kbps) DRadio DokDeb (48 kbps) Energy Digital (72 kbps) ERF Plus (72 kbps) Classic radio (72 kbps) Radio Bob (72 kbps) Radio Horeb (48 kbps) Radio Schlagerparadies (64 kbps) Black Forest radio (64 kbps) sunshine live (72 kbps) DRadio data (32 kbps data) EPG Germany (16 kbps data) TPEG (16 kbps data) TPEG_MM (16 kbps data)	10	ND	Baden-Württemberg: Aalen , Baden-Baden (Fremersberg) , Bad Mergentheim , Blauen , Brandenkopf , Donaueschingen , Feldberg in the Black Forest , Freiburg (Vogtsburg-Totenkopf) , Geislingen (Oberböhringen) , Heidelberg (Königstuhl) , Heilbronn (Schweinsberg) , Upper Rhine ( Rickenbach) , Pforzheim (Schömberg-Langenbrand) , Raichberg , Ravensburg (Höchsten) , Stuttgart (Frauenkopf) , Ulm (Kuhberg) Bavaria: Amberg (Hirschau) , Aschaffenburg (Pfaffenberg) , Augsburg (hotel tower) , Bamberg (Geisberg) , Büttelberg , Brotjacklriegel , Grünten , Herzogstand , Hochberg (Traunstein) , Hoher Bogen , Ingolstadt (Gelbelsee) , Kreuzberg / Rhön , Landshut (Altdorf ) , Munich (Olympic Tower) , Nuremberg , Oberammergau , Ochsenkopf , Passau , Pfänder , Pfarrkirchen , Pfronten , Regensburg (Hohe Linie) , Untersberg , Wendelstein (Bayrischzell) , Würzburg (Frankenwarte) Berlin: Berlin (Alexanderplatz) , Berlin (Scholzplatz) Brandenburg: Bad Belzig , Boossen , Brandenburg / Havel , Calau , Casekow , Cottbus , Pritzwalk , Templin Bremen: Bremen (Walle) , Bremerhaven-Schiffdorf Hamburg: Hamburg (Moorfleet) , Hamburg (Heinrich Hertz Tower) Hesse: Bad Hersfeld (Rimberg) , Biedenkopf (bagpipe) , Fulda (Hummelskopf) , Frankfurt (Europaturm) , Gelnhausen (Schnepfenkopf) , Gießen (Dünsberg) , Großer Feldberg , Hardberg , Hoher Meißner , Kassel (Habichtswald) , Mainz-Kastel Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Garz (Rügen) , Neubrandenburg-Süd , Rostock (Toitenwinkel) , Röbel , Schwerin (Zippendorf-Gr.Dreesch) , Züssow Lower Saxony: Aurich-Popens , Braunschweig (Broitzem) , Braunschweig (Drachenberg) , Cuxhaven-Stadt , Dannenberg , Göttingen (Bovenden-Osterberg) , Hanover (Telemax) , Lingen , Lüneburg-Neu Wendhausen , Molbergen-Peheim , Osnabrück (Bramsche-Schleptruper Egge) , Hildesheim (Sibbesse / Griesberg) , Visselhövede North Rhine-Westphalia: Aachen (Karlshöhe) , Bielefeld (Hünenburg) , Bonn (Venusberg) , Dortmund (Florian tower) , Düsseldorf (Rheinturm) , Eggegebirge , Herscheid , Hochsauerland (Hunau) , Cologne (Colonius) , Langenberg , Lügde-Rischenau (Köterberg ) , Minden (Jakobsberg) , Münster (telecommunications tower) , Siegen-Süd , Wesel Rhineland-Palatinate: Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) , Bornberg , Daun (Eifel) , Edenkoben (Kalmit) , Idar-Oberstein , Kaiserslautern , Kettrichhof , Koblenz (Kühkopf) , Trier (Petrisberg) Saarland: Saarbrücken (Schoksberg) Saxony: Chemnitz , Dresden , Geyer , Leipzig , Löbau , Neustadt , Oschatz , Schöneck Saxony-Anhalt: Brocken , Burg , Dequede , Petersberg , Pettstädt (Weißenfels) , Wittenberg Schleswig-Holstein: Bungsberg , Flensburg , Heide , Helgoland , Kiel (Kronshagen) , Lübeck (Stockelsdorf) , Westerland (Sylt) Thuringia: Bleßberg (Sonneberg) , Gera , Inselsberg , Jena (Oßmaritz) , Kulpenberg , Saalfeld (Remda) , Lobenstein (Sieglitzberg) , Weimar (Ettersberg)
10A NDR HH (D__00240)	DAB + block of the North German Radio NDR 90.3 (104 kbps) NDR 2 HH (104 kbps) NDR culture (104 kbps) NDR Info HH (104 kbps) N-Joy (104 kbps) NDR Blue (104 kbps) NDR Plus (104 kbps) NDR Info Special (104 kbps) NDR BWS NDR TPEG	1	ND	Hamburg (Heinrich Hertz Tower) , Hamburg (Moorfleet)
10D Hamburg K10D (D__00264)	DAB block of media broadcast : Radio Paradiso (72 kbps) MegaRadio (64 kbps) 80s80s (72 kbps) HLRdigital (64 kbps) Tide (64 kbps) Antenna Sylt (72 kbps) R.SH (HH) (72 kbps) lulu.fm (72 kbps) ERF Pop (72 kbps) Radio Hamburg (72 kbps) Hamburg Two (72 kbps) radio ffn (HH) (72 kbps) Rock antenna (HH) (72 kbps) 91.7 xfm (72 kbps) Schlager Radio B2 (72 kbps) Peli One (72 kbps) Ant. Lower Saxony (HH) (72 kbps)	4th	ND	Hamburg (Heinrich Hertz Tower)

watch TV

On November 8, 2004, most of the analog TV channels in the Hamburg / Lübeck area were switched off and TV broadcasting switched to digital transmission ( DVB-T ). For this purpose, on September 25, 2004, the three almost 30 meter high and each around four tons heavy encapsulated antenna segments were replaced by helicopter. The tower has been five centimeters higher since then. Up to March 1, 2005, some public service programs were broadcast in parallel in analogue mode, then these remaining analogue channels were also switched off. Since then, television programs in the Hamburg area have been broadcast exclusively digitally.

Digital television (DVB-T2)

The DVB-T2 broadcasts in simulcast (Single Frequency Network) with other sites.

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate (Mbit / s)	SFN
23	490	ARD digital	The first HD phoenix HD arte HD tagesschau24 HD one HD	50	ND	H	64-QAM ( 16k mode)	1/2	19/128	18.2	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf, Hamburg-Moorfleet , Wedel (Wittsmoor)
27	522	freenet TV	RTL HD (Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein) RTL II HD Super RTL HD VOX HD n-tv HD RTL Nitro HD Tele 5 HD	50	ND	H	64 QAM  (32 k mode)	2/3	1/16	27.6	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf
28	530	freenet TV	ProSieben HD Sat.1 HD (Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein) cable one HD ProSieben Maxx HD Sat.1 Gold HD sixx HD sport1 HD	50	ND	H	64 QAM  (32 k mode)	2/3	1/16	27.6	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf
33	570	Mixed multiplex from ZDF and freenet TV	ZDF HD 3sat HD KiKa HD ZDFneo HD ZDFinfo HD freenet TV connect ( HbbTV service with several streams)	50	ND	H	64-QAM ( 16k  mode)	3/5	19/128	22nd	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf
40	626	ARD regional (NDR)	NDR television HD (Hamburg)	10	ND	H	QPSK ( 16k  mode)	1/2	19/128	6th	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Moorfleet
41	634	ARD regional (NDR)	NDR television HD (Schleswig-Holstein) WDR television (Cologne) HD / NDR HD (Lower Saxony) (temporarily) SWR television BW HD / NDR HD (MV) (temporarily) MDR television (Saxony-Anhalt) HD BR Television South HD / NDR HD (HH) (temporarily)	50	ND	H	64-QAM ( 16k  mode)	1/2	19/128	18.2	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf, Hamburg-Moorfleet , Wedel (Wittsmoor)
45	666	freenet TV	N24 HD DMAX HD Eurosport1 HD Disney Channel HD nickelodeon HD / nicknight HD test (freenet TV) QVC HD HSE24 HD bibel.TV HD freenet TV info	50	ND	H	64 QAM  (32 k mode)	2/3	1/16	27.6	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf

The following DVB-T follow-up could be received until June 30, 2017:

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate (Mbit / s)	SFN
54	738	NDR (DVB-T old)	The first NDR television (Schleswig-Holstein) NDR television (Hamburg) ZDF	50	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Heinrich-Hertz-Turm , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf

The following DVB-T follow-up can be received by November 1, 2017 at the latest:

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Transmission diagram round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate (Mbit / s)	SFN
37	602	MAHSH - regional private multiplex for Hamburg	Hamburg 1	50	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Heinrich Hertz Tower , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum)

Digital television (DVB-T)

For transition to DVB-T2 on March 29, 2017, the DVB-T broadcasts ran on Heinrich Hertz Tower of the German radio tower in simulcast (Single Frequency Network) with other sites.

The former offer was:

channel	Frequency (MHz)	Multiplex	Programs in multiplex	ERP (kW)	Antenna diagram all around (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)	Modulation method	FEC	Guard interval	Bit rate (Mbit / s)	SFN with
23	490 (UHF)	ZDFmobil	ZDF 3 sat ZDFinfo KiKA (6 a.m. - 9 p.m.) / ZDFneo (9 p.m. - 6 a.m.)	50	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf, Rosengarten
30th	546 (UHF)	ProSiebenSat.1 Media Hamburg / Schleswig-Holst.	ProSieben Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein Sat 1 cable one N24	100	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf
33	570 (UHF)	ARD Digital (NDR)	The first Phoenix ARTE tagesschau24	50	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf, Rosengarten
36	594 (UHF)	Mixed private Hamburg 2  (Media Broadcast)	Tele 5 Disney Channel (Germany) QVC ProSieben MAXX multithek ( HbbTV service with multiple streams)	20th	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum)
40	626 (UHF)	RTL Group Hamburg / Schleswig-Holst. 1)	RTL Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein RTL II Super RTL VOX	100	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum), Lübeck – Berkenthin, Lübeck – Stockelsdorf
46	674 (UHF)	Mixed private Hamburg 1  ( Media Broadcast )	Hamburg 1 Eurosport Bible TV sixx	50	ND	H	16 QAM  (8 k mode)	2/3	1/4	13.27	Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum)
54	738 (UHF)	ARD regional (NDR) Hamburg	NDR television (Hamburg) WDR television (Cologne) / NDR (Lower Saxony) (temporarily) MDR television (Saxony-Anhalt) / NDR (MV) (temporarily) BR (Swabia / Altbayern) / NDR (SH) (temporarily)	50	ND	H	64-QAM	1/2	1/8	16.59	Hamburg-Moorfleet , Hamburg-Rahlstedt (Höltigbaum)

¹⁾ planned shutdown by December 31, 2014

Analog television (PAL)

The broadcasting of the analog TV channels was discontinued with the introduction of DVB-T.

channel	Frequency (MHz)	program	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
30th	543.25	ZDF	500	ND	H
34	575.25	Hamburg 1	10	D.	H
40	623.25	NDR television (Hamburg)	500	ND	H
46	671.25	RTL Television (Hamburg)	16	ND	H
48	687.25	Sat.1 (Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein)	10	D.	H

See also

• List of transmitters in Hamburg
• List of tallest television towers

literature

• Fritz Leonhardt , Jörg Schlaich : The Hamburg telecommunications tower, design and calculation of the structure. In: Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. March 1968, pp. 193-203.
• Oberpostdirektion Hamburg (ed.): Heinrich-Hertz-Turm. 1968, OCLC 247981367 .
• Günther Kühne: Hamburg's highest tower. In: Bauwelt. No. 10, 1963, pp. 271-275.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich-Hertz-Turm  - collection of pictures

• Homepage of the Fernsehturm Hamburg Upward Foundation
• Homepage of the Friends of the Hamburg TV Tower
• The tallest telecommunications towers in Germany
• Page to the TV tower Hamburg
• Tower in a dressing gown. In: taz . 5th January 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sarah Schafer: TV tower Hamburg: The Hamburg Tele-Michel. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
2. ^ Daniel Tilgner: Small Lexicon of Hamburg Terms . Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0190-6 , p. 139.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 8.
4. ^ Kühne: Hamburg's highest tower. P. 271.
5. ↑ Erwin Heinle, Fritz Leonhardt: Towers of all times - of all cultures. 1988, ISBN 3-421-02931-8 , p. 230.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 14.
7. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 15.
8. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 37.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 27.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 18.
11. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 19.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 20.
13. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 24.
14. ↑ Hamburger Web: Hamburger Fernsehturm - Heinrich Hertz Turm , accessed on November 5, 2013.
15. ↑ TV Museum Hamburg: The Hamburg TV Tower ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 10, 2013. 
16. ^ Katharina Wischmann: Hamburg | Vertical: Landmarks as symbols in the urban skyline. Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-6152-2 , p. 160.
17. ↑ taz : Turm im Schlafrock , article from January 5, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2013.
18. ↑ hamburg-tourism.de: Der Fernsehturm Hamburg , accessed on November 13, 2013.
19. ↑ Hamburg wants to revive the television tower , Hamburger-Abendblatt, February 2, 2010.
20. ↑ policy and tourism experts per Telemichel , Hamburger Abendblatt, 3rd February, 2010.
21. ↑ Jule Bleyer: Operation antenna change. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 27, 2004, accessed January 8, 2016.
22. ↑ How long will the television tower stand? , Picture, December 30, 2010.
23. ^ Tower in a dressing gown , taz, January 5, 2012.
24. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt : Danish architect plans TV tower hotel , article from August 24, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2013.
25. ↑ The tasks of the Fernsehturm-HAMBURG UPWARD Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2020 . 
26. ↑ Heiko Block: The TV tower should finally be revived. (No longer available online.) NDR.de, September 8, 2015, archived from the original on September 9, 2015 ; accessed on January 1, 2016 . 
27. ↑ Axel Tiedemann: An important step towards the reopening of the television tower. Hamburger Abendblatt, September 7, 2015, accessed on January 1, 2016 . 
28. ^ Sarah Schafer, hamburg.de: The Hamburg Tele-Michel. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
29. ↑ Open again in 2023: The plans for the television tower are in place. NDR 90.3, June 3, 2020, accessed on June 3, 2020 . 
30. ↑ On our own behalf: We are taking over the operation of the Hamburg television tower with partners. OMR News, June 3, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020 . 
31. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 12.
32. ^ Katharina Wischmann: Hamburg | Vertical: Landmarks as symbols in the urban skyline. Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-6152-2 , pp. 161-162.
33. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 17.
34. ↑ Erwin Heinle, Fritz Leonhardt: Towers of all times - of all cultures. 1988, ISBN 3-421-02931-8 , p. 231.
35. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 33.
36. ^ Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 47.
37. ↑ ^{a b c} Heinrich Hertz Tower. P. 25.
38. ↑ current DAB frequency list Hamburg .
39. ↑ ndr.de (PDF).
40. ^ Wittsmoor list (PDF; 13 kB); UHF frequencies Hamburg ; Digitized on web.archive.org: DVB-T - List for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (PDF).
41. ↑ Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland does not continue program distribution via DVB-T ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )