Dresden TV tower
The Fernsehturm Dresden is the Dresden Elbhängen in Dresden's Wachwitz and serves as a transmission tower for television, radio and mobile. His visibility over long distances and its peculiar shape because he has become a landmark of Dresden and the Elbe Valley.
Construction
The architects of the Dresden TV Tower, Kurt Nowotny, Herrmann Rühle and John Brown were inspired to its goblet-like shape by a glass of champagne. It was modeled after the first TV tower of reinforced concrete, the Stuttgart Television Tower, built without obtaining its " aesthetic perfection". Was built the tower under the auspices of the VEB BMK coal and energy between 1963 and 1969. It is 252 meters high and was after the Berlin TV Tower ( 368 meters) second-highest structure with tourist facilities in the GDR. The top of the building overlooks the Elbpegel to 373 meters, his foot is located 230 meters above the sea level. The shaft of the building consists of reinforced concrete and has a diameter of 21 meters, which is anchored to the ground in six feet of water in the Lusatian granite. Its total weight is 7300 tons. In the tower shaft run about 750 steps up to the control tower.
Dresden TV Tower from the River Elbe
Dresden TV tower on an aerial photograph
Dresden TV Tower Tolkewitz
Upper part of the Dresden TV Tower of Dresden- Laubegast
Wireless technology
On September 18, 1969, the tower was officially put into operation. He owns transmission facilities for analog broadcasting on FM, digital radio, analogue and digital television and data services. According to the will of the Saxon State Government to 2025, all analog FM stations are switched off and switched to digital reception. He served or is designed to disseminate the following programs:
Broadcast of the GDR and reversing period to 1992
Analogue radio (FM )
Digital radio (DAB / DAB )
DAB is broadcast in vertical polarization and single-frequency operation with other transmitters.
- Radio hit Paradise ( 72 kbps, DAB )
- Absolute relax (72 kbps, DAB )
- Sunshine live (72 kbps, DAB )
- Germany Funk ( 128 kbps, DAB)
- Germany radio culture (128 kbps, DAB)
- DRadio knowledge (56 kbps, DAB )
- Documents and Debates (40 kbps, DAB )
- ENERGY ( 72 kbps, DAB )
- Horeb (72 kbps, DAB )
- Classic Radio (72 kbps, DAB )
- LoungeFM (72 kbps, DAB )
- RADIO BOB! (72 kbps, DAB )
- Radio Horeb (48 kbps, DAB )
- Baden- Württemberg: Baden -Baden ( Fremersberg ), Freiburg ( Vogt Castle Totenkopf ), Geislingen ( Oberböhringen ), Heidelberg ( king chair), Heilbronn ( Pig Mountain ), Pforzheim ( Schomberg - Long Brand), Stuttgart ( Head of a Woman ), Ulm ( Cow Mountain )
- Bavaria: Augsburg (Hotel Tower ), Nuremberg, Regensburg ( High Line ), Ingolstadt ( Gelbelsee ), Munich ( Olympic Tower ), Wendelstein ( Bavarian Zell), Würzburg ( Frankenwarte )
- Berlin: Berlin ( Alexanderplatz), Berlin ( Scholzplatz )
- Bremen: Bremen
- Hamburg: Hamburg ( Moor Fleet ), Hamburg ( Heinrich- Hertz-Turm )
- Hesse: Bad Hersfeld ( Rimberg ), Fulda ( Hummel head), Gelnhausen ( Schnepf head), casting ( Dünsberg ), Grosser Feldberg, Frankfurt ( Europe tower), Kassel ( Hawk Forest ), Mainz -Kastel
- Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Schwerin ( Zippendorf - Gr.Dreesch )
- Lower Saxony Braunschweig ( Broitzem ), Braunschweig ( Dragon Mountain ), Göttingen ( Bovenden - Osterberg ), Hanover ( Telemax ), Osnabrück ( Bramsche - Schleptruper Harrow ), Hildesheim ( Sibbesse / Griesberg )
- North Rhine -Westphalia: Bielefeld ( Hünenburg ), Bonn ( Venusberg ), Dortmund ( Florian Tower ), Dusseldorf ( Rhine Tower ), Cologne ( Colonius ), Long Mountain, Minden (Jacob Berg)
- Rhineland -Palatinate: Daun ( Eifel), Koblenz ( Kühkopf )
- Saarland Saarbrücken ( Schoksberg )
- Saxony: Schoeneck, Chemnitz ( Geyer ), Dresden, Leipzig ( Stadtwerke )
- Saxony- Anhalt: Magdeburg ( Kapaunberg ), Halle ( Wallwitz -Peter Berg)
- Schleswig -Holstein: Kiel ( Kronshagen )
- Thuringia Gera, Island Mountain, Weimar ( Etter Mountain )
- MDR Jump ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Figaro (DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Sputnik (DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Info (DAB , 72 kbps)
- MDR Klassik (DAB , 96 kpbs )
- MDR Klassik SURR (DAB , 96 kbps, some multichannel sound)
- MDR Sachsen - Dresden ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Saxony - Leipzig ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Saxony - Chemnitz ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Sachsen - Bautzen ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Sachsen - Sorbian ( DAB , 88 kbps)
- MDR Sachsen Extra ( DAB , 48 kbps)
- MDR TPEG
- MDR BWS
- MDR EPG
TV (analogue)
This last remaining analog television was turned off on 10 January 2013.
The following stations have been shut down no later than the switchover to DVB -T:
TV ( digital)
The switch to DVB- T was carried out on 23 July 2007. With the technical preparatory work beginning of November 2006 already has begun. This cable were laid in the shaft of the tower, which will connect the transmitter mast with the investments of broadcasting technology. 2007, a new antenna should be mounted by means of helicopters, the court also already been created, but it was mounted inside the cylinder by hand.
On channels 29 (538 MHz), 36 ( 594 MHz) and 39 (618 MHz) is sent with each 100 kW in vertical polarization:
- MDR TV
- Rbb Fernsehen
- WDR Television
- Bayerisches Fernsehen
- The first
- ARTE
- Phoenix
- EinsFestival
Tourism
Turmcafè 1975
View at parking, and TV Tower Road (ca. 1970 )
Viewing direction Seidnitz and Reick (ca. 1970 )
Looking towards the city center (ca. 1970 )
Viewing direction Johannstadt ( circa 1975 )
In the visitor area can be achieved with two passenger elevators, there was a two-story tower restaurant with 132 seats in the 145 meters, from the above it in 148 meters open observation platform with a capacity of 40 to 50 visitors could look into the depths like a balcony. Every year approximately 200,000 guests visited the tower café to from there to enjoy the view over the Elbe valley, up to the renovation in 1991 by the German Telekom and the collapse of the last tenant of the tower cafes (HO- restaurant ). Today the tower is no longer open for visitors. The former entrance is walled and fenced the area safely.
Since a renovation of the elevator installation and the restaurant would cost about three to four million euros, no investor could previously be an affordable concept found. Economic operation is only possible with 500,000 visitors per year. The Telekom sees no own needs for renovation.
On 4 August 2010 the Saxon newspaper reported on the interest of a potential investor, who should present the city until mid-August, a financing concept. The required investment costs for the tower are estimated at ten million euros.
Trivia
- To move from the reports on the opening of the Berlin TV tower priority to the official opening of weeks earlier completed the television tower in Dresden was postponed.
- To a favorable traffic connections should also contribute to a cable car, which would have resulted from the River Elbe from the tower. This plan was rejected, the construction of the cable car was then carried out in 1970 in the Bode Valley ( Thale / Harz).
- In June 2000 it was the 10th Elbhangfest " Wachwitz shows the Zehne - 650 years Wachwitz " a sound and light event where the TV tower at night was lit up in different colors and presented by speakers widely heard his speaking ability to the test.
- In 2003 there were in the broadcasting studios a smaller fire, which was quickly brought under control.
- In February 2008, the City Council met about a possible reopening.
- In August 2009, the Friends had a possible resolution, which could only be prevented for the time being.
- In February 2012 there was a water damage, in which several cubic meters of water flowed into the basement due to a ruptured as a result of frost pipeline.