Spin tower
The approximately 20 meter high Trudelturm in the Berlin district of Adlershof is a technical monument from aeronautical research that was erected between 1934 and 1936.
history
The building, which was also called the “Trudel wind tunnel ”, was built by the German Aviation Research Institute (DVL) between 1934 and 1936 on the former Berlin-Johannisthal airfield . It stands next to a 130 meter long large wind tunnel from the same years, which is also listed . Both are registered as part of the former location of the DVL in the Berlin State Monument List.
When it was erected, the tower represented an “absolute technical innovation”, with which the dangerous state of a spin could be simulated in the laboratory for the first time . The experiments helped to better understand the complex processes involved in spinning. In this way it was determined how aircraft “staggering” to earth without a driver can be intercepted and controlled again. A (precisely manufactured) model could be introduced into a vertical (bottom-up) air flow in such a way that it always flew at the level of the observation device and could be filmed by high-speed cameras. The speed of the air flow could be regulated to match the speed of fall of the model. The fixtures are no longer available today.
The tower currently belongs to the Aerodynamic Park on the Adlershof campus of the Humboldt University and is part of the ensemble of technical monuments of aviation research in Berlin-Adlershof from the 1930s. The entire site is part of the Adlershof WISTA science and business location , which has been built since 1992 on an area of around 420 hectares . Since 2005, a connecting path between Max-Born- and Brook-Taylor-Straße has been called Zum Trudelturm .
Others
In 2005, the tower was used as the backdrop for a scene from the science fiction film Æon Flux , which is set 400 years in the future. The main actress Charlize Theron runs up the outside stairs.
Web links
- Humboldt University, Technical Monuments. - The quotations are taken from this illustration; here also information on further literature.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 54 ″ N , 13 ° 31 ′ 46 ″ E