Rottenbuch Radio Tower

The radio tower gang book is a transmission tower of the company Vodafone D2 on the Schnaidberg south of Peiting near Schongau.

62.5 m height he was at the time of its completion (June 2002) the tallest wooden tower in Germany and possibly the second highest existing Holzbauwek the world (after the 118 m high radio tower in Gliwice ). Since then, however are in Germany with the 100 m high tower of the wind turbine Hannover -Marie Werder and, for example in Austria with the Bahnorama at the Vienna Central Station (2010, 66.72 m ) and the observation tower Pyramidentower (2013, 82 m without antenna) built higher Timber structures.

Technical structure

The truss structure of the tower is a glulam construction of European Douglas fir. It is 60 meters high. The total height of the structure is including the antennas on top of 62.50 meters. As connecting elements, steel dowels are used. These connection points and the internal stages were made for technical reasons, made ​​of galvanized steel. The complete construction is " natural " because, in the nature reserve no chemical wood preservatives could be used.

Architectural History

On 18 March 2002, began with the excavation of tower foundations. On 3 June 2002, the construction of the tower began. To this end, the pre-assembled lower halves of the truss structure pairs were assembled and then erected. Then the missing diagonal elements were still drawn. On 21 June 2002, the construction was completed.