Typenturm

Type Tower is the name for a standardized telecommunications tower (FMT ) in reinforced concrete of the former German Federal Post Office (now the German radio tower, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom). There are various type of towers designed and built at numerous locations.

Development

The type spiers were constructed generally in accordance with economic and functional aspects and only secondarily for aesthetic. Compared to steel structures, steel concrete construction is lighter in construction and maintenance. In Germany there are about 300 type towers, of which even smaller number originated the first in the early 1950s ( types A, B and C). The then Federal Ministry of Postal Services entrusted the architect Werner Hoyer and Arwed Teutschbein with planning and development of type towers. For the construction of the ZDF broadcasting network of the slim type D 1961 was designed purely as a TV tower, but built only five times, as demonstrated with the increased use of radio relay in the Federal Post Office, the need for towers with large footprints. Thus began the mid-1960s the widespread construction of type towers with operation level. Instrumental in the planning of the new type towers were the engineer Fritz Leonhardt and the architect Erwin Heinle.

The five series FMT 1-3, 4-6 FMT, FMT 8 to 10, 11 to 13 FMT FMT and 14 to 16 consist of three types, which differ from each other only in their height. The individual series differ by the number of antenna sites and the size of the operating floor. The types FMT 8 to 10 are without pulpit. Over the years, individual types had to be adapted to the altered functional and structural requirements. The new versions are distinguished by appending the development year ( for example, FMT 2/73 ).

The telecommunication towers in Münster, Kiel, Bremen and Cuxhaven were planned by the architect Gerhard roundabout and Günter H. Müller of Oberpostdirektion Kiel and do not belong to the actual type towers. They are therefore referred to as special towers, including the Rhine Tower, the Heinrich- Hertz-Turm, or Colonius belong.

Gallery of some type towers

Telecommunications tower holders in Haltern am See

FMT 1 on the Köterberg (Weser mountain country)

FMT 1 in Ober-Olm

FMT 2 in Karlsruhe- Grünwettersbach

FMT 2/72 in Forest book

FMT2/73 in Bamberg

FMT 2/73 in Porta Westfalica (Jacob Berg)

FMT 3 in Mudau travel Bach

FMT 5 in Gramschatzer Forest ( near Würzburg )

FMT 6 in Waghaeusel - meadow valley

FMT 11 on the White Stone in Dossenheim

FMT 10 in Passau Dommelstadl

FMT 11 at Bredstedt

FMT 12 in Schnittlingen

FMT 13 in Moers

FMT 13 at Burgwindheim

FMT 13 on the Plettenberg at Balingen

FMT 14 on the Blue ( Blue channels )

FMT 15 in Köln -Poll

FMT 16 in Ludwigshafen

FMT 16 in Ansbach

FMT D in Heubach

FMT in Ulm D - Ermingen

FMT D at Pfaffenhofen

More standardized transmission towers

The mid-sixties was the Bundeswehr five uniform monitoring towers ( eavesdropping Electronic Warfare Tower ) built, which were operated by the Air Force. These so-called telecommunications sector towers were part of a monitoring network along the border with East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

In the GDR, were at numerous locations skyscraper -like telecommunication towers, the so-called A- towers built.

Also in other countries there was such a thing as standardization of types of telecommunication towers. For instance, in France at numerous locations very similar telecommunication towers. In Poland, the old TV tower resembles Piatkowo a number of other towers. A in the former Soviet Union widely used steel truss tower is the 3803 KM.

There are also abroad also telecommunication towers, which the German type towers correspond almost exactly in their design. Examples are the transmission tower of the radio station Ansfelden and the telecommunications tower Exelberg in Austria.