VW Tower
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VW Tower
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| Place: | Hanover | |||
| Country: | Lower Saxony | |||
| Country: | Germany | |||
| Altitude : | 57 m above sea level NHN | |||
| Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 47.7 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 28.1" E | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | Volkswagen AG | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1958-1959 | |||
| Operating time: | since April 1960 | |||
| Total height : | 141 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Shutdown : | 1990s | |||
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The VW Tower ( nicknamed Telemoritz or "old television tower") is a 141 m high telecommunications tower in the center of Hanover , which is no longer used as such today .
history
The VW Tower is located between Raschplatz -Hochstraße and the main train station in the Mitte district . Originally, the tower was to be built next to the main post office, which was built in 1950/52 (and demolished in 2003 for the construction of the Ernst-August-Galerie ). For urban planning reasons, the Raschplatz location was then favored and the tower was built in 1958/59. An originally planned "tower cafe" was not realized. Commissioning by the German Federal Post Office took place in April 1960. In terms of construction, the tower is of particular importance as it is one of the first towers to be built from reinforced concrete .
At the end of the 1960s the tower was also called " Dandelion ".
Since 1992 the telecommunications tower in the city center has also been called Telemoritz , to distinguish it from the Telemax, which was newly built between 1989 and 1992 . The two names were chosen that year through a vote in a Hanover daily newspaper. They are an allusion to the Wilhelm-Busch -Werk Max and Moritz . After the new Telemax went into operation, the radio equipment in the old tower was either completely dismantled or relocated to the new tower in the following years.
In 2000, Volkswagen AG acquired the tower from DeTeImmobilien , then a 100% subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG , at a symbolic price, the height of which was never quantified. For advertising purposes, a rotatable and illuminated Volkswagen logo was attached below the top of the tower. The purchase was made because the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (VWN) division is based in Hanover and, with around 15,000 employees, is one of the largest employers in the region. The VWN is also the owner of the tower. The VW logo no longer rotates due to a defective engine.
In October 2019, the VW logo attached to the tower was renewed as part of the change in the branding of the core brand Volkswagen . In August 2020, a brick- sized chunk of concrete broke out of the window ledge of a platform at a height of around 70 meters and barely missed two pedestrians on the ground. Industrial climbers then examined the tower. and nets were stretched around the platform to secure it. In addition, experts examined the concrete with special equipment.
See also
literature
- Hanover's new television tower - supplement to the Neue Presse and the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 24, 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Küpper: Dictionary of German colloquial language. Vol. 5, 1967, p. 209, "Telecommunications Tower".
- ↑ The VW logo on the "Telemoritz" lights up again. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . October 2, 2019, accessed October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Tower crumbles: People only just miss stones on ndr.de on August 11, 2020
- ↑ Peer Hellerling: Concrete chunks fell from Telemoritz - climbers should find the cause in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 11, 2020
- ↑ Crumbling concrete: VWN has tower secured at ndr.de from August 21, 2020