List of tallest towers in the world
This list of the highest television towers has the world's highest television towers with a total height of over 200 meters. TV towers are often also generally among the highest buildings in the world, but are distinguished from skyscrapers and towers. TV towers serve no economic purpose for living as opposed to skyscrapers. To TV towers differ from transmission masts or towers, that they as freestanding towers - usually made of reinforced concrete - an operating pulpit or viewing platform (even tower basket called ). The Stuttgart TV tower was in 1955 the world's first reinforced concrete tower, which was built in the so-called vertical cantilever structure.
Besides the main function for the transmission of radio and radio waves as some television towers also serve as a water tower. TV towers in prominent locations such as in city centers, the public often also used as an observation tower with platforms for distance vision. Often tourist attractions or revolving restaurants are housed in television towers. Thus they acquire in addition to the tourist attraction and landmark character.
Highest TV tower is the Tokyo Sky Tree, which reached its final height of 634 meters on March 18, 2011. The start-up as well as access to the public took place in the first half of 2012 In May 2009, the proposed final height of 610 meters, the Canton Tower in Guangzhou has been achieved in the People's Republic of China.; However, in July 2010, the upper part of the two-part steel framework mast on which the thin antenna is built, fed, for reasons of flight safety back at ten meters, so the Canton Tower now has a height of 600 meters. However, he initially remained the highest television and viewing tower in the world and sparked even during the construction of the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada from.
The highest unfinished construction of a television tower is the 220 meter high building ruins of the television tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The tower would have to be over 400 feet high; The building was, however, stopped for financial reasons in the early 1990s. On 29 April 1999, the 202.8 -meter-high Avala Tower was destroyed by a bomb attack and rebuilt from 2006 to 2009 as a result of the Kosovo War.
List by Height
Key to the table:
- Rank: Ranking of the television tower, sorted by the total amount
- Name: Name of the television tower
- City / State: City and State where the TV tower is
- Height: height of the building in meters, rounded to the nearest meter, unless the information is significant for differentiating the ranking
- Comments / platform heights: If known, it is indicated whether the tower via a ( rotary) restaurant has and the amount of viewing platforms and / or operating projectiles. Any structural or functional features are noted here.
- Access: The public accessibility by visitors ( without reservation) is marked accordingly.
- Year: Year of completion
The thicker gray bars between two lines marked in the table, sorted by total height exceeding each a full hundred meter mark.
Note: This list buildings are listed, which are referred to by the literature as television towers or telecommunication towers, because they have corresponding architectural features. This does not necessarily mean that they all serve the transmission of television or radio programs.
List of tallest television towers of its time
This partial list outlines the highest television and Telecommunications towers of its time. Built in 1889 the Eiffel Tower in Paris beamed 1921, the first public radio broadcast in Europe; first transmission attempts for television pictures were taken in 1925 and the first television program was broadcast on 26 April 1935. Thus, the Eiffel Tower is the first TV and telecommunications tower in general. The height indicated corresponds to that which existed at the time when the building was awarded the record. By adjusting the height of antenna technology information varies over again and do not necessarily reflect their present height resist.