The Brocken Transmitter () is a facility for FM- and TV-transmitters on the

Brocken The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is a mountain near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser River, Weser and Elbe. The highest peak in the Harz mountain range, and in Northern Germany, ...

, the highest mountain in Northern Germany. The facility includes two transmission towers. The old tower was built between 1936 and 1937. It is 53 metres high (including its antenna mast, which no longer exists, it had a height of 95 metres) and has an

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, which can be reached by

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. This tower was intended to be used after 1939 for TV transmissions to central Germany, but due to the beginning of

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, it was transformed into a radar facility. Unlike most modern TV towers, the old tower looks like a block of flats with a square cross section. The arrangement of the windows in the observation deck is similar to those in the restaurant in the Radio tower Berlin. In 1973 a new TV tower was built on Brocken. This 123-metre, freestanding steel-tube tower stands on three legs, which hold shafts for cable and stairways for personnel access. Above the legs are three decks for directional radio transmission aerials. The new TV tower is not accessible to the public. While Germany was divided into

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and

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, the Brocken transmitter was used for TV and FM-transmissions, even though it lay in the restricted area of the east-west frontier (on the Eastern Side). Its location so close to the border enabled it to be received in parts of the West. In the first half of the 1990s the transmitting aerial of the old tower was removed and replaced by a

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holding

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radar equipment. Neuer_Sendeturm_Brocken

The Brocken Transmitter is property of

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Signals transmitted from Brocken

Digital television

* ARD-MDR1 HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 45 (vertical) 50 kW * ARD-MDR2 HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 34 (vertical) 50 kW *

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HD (DVB-T2), UHF channel 37 (vertical) 50 kW

Analogue television (formerly)

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(originally DFF1), VHF channel E6 (Horizontal) 100 kW *

, UHF channel 49 500 kW *

MDR Fernsehen MDR Fernsehen is a regional public service television channel owned and operated by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and serving Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. It is one of the seven regional "third programmes" that are offered within the fed ...

(originally DFF2), UHF channel 34 (Horizontal) 1000 kW

FM radio

* MDR Sachsen-Anhalt, 94.6 MHz (60 kW) * MDR Jump, 91.5 MHz (100 kW) *

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, 107.8 MHz (10 kW) *

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, 97.4 MHz (100 kW) * 89.0 RTL, 89.0 MHz (60 kW) * Radio SAW, 101.4 MHz (100 kW)

External links

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Signals transmitted from Brocken

Digital television

Analogue television (formerly)

FM radio

See also

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