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Fernsehturm Stuttgart

Field	Value
building_name	Fernsehturm Stuttgart
image	Stuttgarter Fernsehturm6.jpg
location	Jahnstraße 120
Stuttgart, Germany
coordinates
start_date	10 January 1954
completion_date	5 February 1956
renovation_date	1965
status	Complete
building_type	Telecommunications
Observation tower
architectural_style	Modernism
antenna_spire	216.61 m
cost	4.2 million DM (1956)
~10 million Euro (2021)
floor_area
architect	Heinle, Wischer and Partner
engineer	Fritz Leonhardt
main_contractor	G. Epple
Wayss & Freytag
owner	Südwestrundfunk
references

Stuttgart, Germany Observation tower ~10 million Euro (2021) Wayss & Freytag

Fernsehturm Stuttgart () is a 216.61 m telecommunications tower in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the world's first telecommunications tower constructed from reinforced concrete, and is thus the original modernist architecture highrise needle tower with a "basket" atop that would be built worldwide in the following years. Although controversial at first, it quickly became a well known landmark of Stuttgart and a tourist attraction.

Location

The tower is located on the hill Hoher Bopser (elevation 483 meters) in the southern Stuttgart borough of Degerloch. From the observation decks there is a view of Stuttgart, from the forests and vineyards in and around Stuttgart to the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest.

The Waldau-Stadion (Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau) is located near the tower; games played there are often described as "under the TV tower" or "in the shade of the TV tower".

History

The tower's construction was controversial – critics opposed the new building method and its costs; a simple 200-meter antenna array would have cost just 200,000 DM. Construction began on 10 January 1954 and continued for 20 months. This made it the first telecom tower in the world built with reinforced concrete. The construction cost was 4.2 million DM. Revenues from visitors reached that sum within five years. The tower was placed in service on 5 February 1956 by Süddeutscher Rundfunk (today Südwestrundfunk – SWR). It was part of the German state visit of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in May 1965.

The tower reached its current height of 216.61 m after the antenna was extended from October 1965 to December 1965.

Specifications

Engineer: Fritz Leonhardt
Altitude: Foot of tower 483 m above sea level
Overall height to the antenna point: 216.8 m
Height of upper observation deck: 153.5 m
Height of lower observation deck: 150 m
Diameter of foundation: 27 m
Total weight of tower: approximately 3,000 tons
Weight of foundation: approximately 1,500 tons
Speed of elevators: 5 m/s
Panorama Café on a platform of the tower basket
Maximum diameter of tower basket: 15 m

Broadcasting

The tower is still known as Fernsehturm but today only broadcasts several public FM radio stations. Transmission of the ARD TV network's analogue service stopped in 2006. The digital television services have moved to nearby Fernmeldeturm Stuttgart, which also broadcasts private FM radio stations in the area.

Air traffic warning lights

The tower carries beside the conventional red air traffic warning lights three rotating xenon lamps similar to those used on lighthouses just above the observation deck.

Public access

On 27 March 2013 the tower was closed to the public because of a review of fire safety regulations. The tower was reopened on 30 January 2016 with a refurbished entrance, shop area and new, optimised fire safety precautions.

Gallery

Stuttgart TV tower at night.jpg|Fernsehturm Stuttgart after dark Fernsehturm stuttgart plaque.jpg|Commemorative plaque at the tower's base Fundamentfuss-Stuttgarter-Fernsehturm.png|Foundation of Fernsehturm Stuttgart Informationstafel Fernsehturm Stuttgart26082018.png|Stations transmitted from the tower Stuttgarter Fernsehturm en.svg|Tower basket Fernsehturm Stuttgart and Full Moon Summer 2013 06.jpg|The tower in 2013, with the full moon rising behind it, seen from the west. StuttgartTVTowerObservationDeck.jpg|Observation deck

References

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"Emporis building ID 109859". [[Emporis]].
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"Opening Hours". Fernsehturm Stuttgart.
Abele, Rüdiger. (24 January 2016). "Da ergeht einem Hören und Sehen". Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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