A Tower

A tower is the name for a Typenbau / telecommunications tower, as it was built in the late 1950s in all regions of the GDR. The height of the rectangular A tower is 25 m. He is above equipped with a plurality of antenna beams, and wearing a green coat. Some were holzverschalt.

The Central Committee of the SED began in the second half of the 1950s with the establishment of a separate and independent of any other communication networks narrowband radio relay network ( RFN ) with two power levels:

  • Network Level 1: Upgrading of connections by the Central Committee in Berlin to all district committees of the party and
  • Network Level 2: of the latter to all the circuit lines.

The establishment was a result of the events of the popular uprising on 17 June 1953 in the GDR. In all regions of the GDR, away from urban areas, the district radio relay centers emerged ( BzRFuZ ), initially in old barracks, later expressed in the towers.

All BzRFuZ received the identifier as A1- objects with the relevant district code, for example for the dead stone at Karl- Marx-Stadt, the identifier 14A1. In the network in the mid- 1960s, the NVA chimed with their own narrowband radio relay network. Both networks were pure communication networks via which telephone and teleprinter circuits were operated. The towers of these networks were not enlightenment storms.

Due to the elucidation of these networks by the Communications Intelligence of the Army of the Bundeswehr in the 1960s, the company was technically very limited in both networks. The special radio service of the Stasi may have used for its educational activities, the same towers. The area around A- towers of the narrowband radio relay network was seen as a closed military zone and was in secured and protected against unauthorized access. Violations and pictorial representation ( photography ) were placed under threat of punishment.

After the fall of the buildings were first taken over by the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Some of them were used by providers of mobile networks. After the settlement or conversion and utilization continued as a telecommunication device.

Locations

The following list represents a selection of different sites

  • Stralsund
  • Passee
  • Small Upahl
  • Blumenholz
  • Gühlen
  • Or mountain - high halls
  • Place field
  • Fleetmark
  • Chambers
  • Oarlock
  • Phöben at Werder ( Havel )
  • Trebbin
  • Fiirstenwalde
  • Frohser Beautiful mountain at Beck
  • Chunk
  • Raven
  • Ox head
  • Petkus
  • Petersberg near Halle
  • Crinitz
  • Belgern
  • Makers
  • Nebra (Unstrut )
  • Pettstädt
  • Etter mountain
  • Big Island mountain
  • Schneekopf
  • Eyba
  • Altenburg
  • High Reuth ( Bocka )
  • Erlabrunn in Zwickau
  • Netzschkau
  • Auersberg
  • Totenstein in Chemnitz
  • Zschopau
  • Dresden- Gompitz
  • Mrs. Stone (Ore Mountains)
  • Wilthen
  • Ebersbach
East Germany Klein Upahl Machern Lichtentanne Frauenstein, Saxony B Tower
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