Sulgen water tower

The Sulgen water tower is a 26 meter high water tower built in 1960 in the Sulgen district of Schramberg , which has a water tank of 100 cubic meters. It is one of ten containers from Stadtwerke Schramberg to supply drinking water to all municipal households.

This water tower was built in 1960 according to plans by the Dornstetter architect Alwin Eppler on the 764 m high Sulgener Berg . The water tower has a viewing platform on which the Schramberg municipal utilities have installed and operate a webcam. The reinforced concrete tower has a transmitting antenna for VHF radio on its top.

Broadcast tower

The water tower is also used to broadcast radio programs.

Analog radio (VHF)

Frequency (MHz)	program	RDS PS	RDS PI	Regionalization	ERP (kW)	Antenna pattern round (ND) / directional (D)	Polarization horizontal (H) / vertical (V)
103.7	Radio Neckarburg	NECKARBG	150A	-	0.1	ND	H

Web links

Commons : Wasserturm Sulgen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Article about the tower in the customer magazine of Stadtwerke Schramberg, pages 8–9 (PDF file, 844 kiB )
[1] Link to the Schramberg public utility's panorama webcam on the viewing platform of the Sulgen water tower

Individual evidence

↑ Text passage from “Paysagblog” blog note January 12, 2014: “View of the old and new St. Laurentius Church on the Sulgen” - time travel through the mountain suburb of Sulgen - using a New Year's postcard from Uwe Rettkowski, accessed on December 27, 2015.

48.218342 8.414566Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 6 " N , 8 ° 24 ′ 52.4" E

[1] Text passage from “Paysagblog” blog note January 12, 2014: “View of the old and new St. Laurentius Church on the Sulgen” - time travel through the mountain suburb of Sulgen - using a New Year's postcard from Uwe Rettkowski, accessed on December 27, 2015.