The Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg, the tallest structure in Bavaria, is a telecommunication tower in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, southern
Germany
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. Also called the ''Nürnberger Ei'' ("Egg of Nuremberg") because of its egg-shaped tower basket in a height of 185 metres, it is 292 metres high and was built between 1977 and 1980 according to
blueprint
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s by
architect
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Erwin Heinle.
The tower basket accommodates transmission mechanisms for
Frequency modulation
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,
DAB
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Dictionaries
* ''Dictionary of American Biography'', published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies
* ''Dictionary of Australian Biography'', published since 1949
Places
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,
UMTS
The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the In ...
,
pager
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,
amateur radio
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and a
microwave radio relay
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link and – closed since 1991 – a rotating restaurant and a prospect platform. Responsible operator is the DFMG Deutsche Funkturm (German radio tower)
GmbH, a subsidiary of
Deutsche Telekom
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based in
Münster
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. From 22 January 2003 to 4 April 2003 the Nürnberg telecommunication tower also served for the spreading of the program of
megaradio on
mediumwave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM broadcasting, AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. Du ...
frequency 945 kHz. For this a wire antenna was strung along the tower shaft, from the top of the tower to the roof of an operating building near the tower.
Since July 2009 a 360° Panoramacamera shows the view over Nuremberg from 194 metres.
Panoramacam Nürnberg
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Forerunner
From 1927 to 1969, broadcasting programs in medium wave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the dayt ...
were emitted by the Transmitter Nuremberg-Kleinreuth
The Transmitter Nuremberg-Kleinreuth was a broadcasting facility for medium wave at Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1927 in Nuremberg-Kleinreuth at the former Broadcast Street 24, now Sigmund Street 181, in order to supply the nort ...
at the former Rundfunkstraße (Broadcast street) 24. This transmitter was laid to the radio emitting station of the Bayerischer Rundfunk
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(Bavarian Broadcasting Company) on 15 September 1969 on the Dillberg mountain (see: Dillberg transmitter
Dillberg transmitter is a transmitting facility of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company (German: Bayerischer Rundfunk) on the 595-metre-high Dillberg mountain west of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany. Dillberg transmitter went into serv ...
) where the broadcasting programs of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company are still emitted.
Technical data
*Total height: 292.80 m / 960 ft. (as of 9 April 2005)
*Total weight: 23,000 t
*Maximum diameter of the tower basket: 32.00 m /105 ft.
*Height of the tower basket: 49.70 m / 163 ft.
*Height of the restaurant floor: 189 m / 620 ft.
*Stairs to the prospect platform: 1,170
*Stairs and staves to the top: 1,455
*Lift velocity (up to 30 persons): 7 m/s / 23 ft/sec
*Material lift velocity (up to 13 persons): 2 m/s / 7 ft/sec
*Construction time: 12 July 1977 (laying of the foundation stone) to 8 August 1980 (official opening)
DVB-T
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-Channels from the Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg
See also
*List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting ...
*List of masts
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity ...
* German Wikipedia article on Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg
References
External links
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* http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=447
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Towers completed in 1980
Buildings and structures in Nuremberg
Towers with revolving restaurants
Communication towers in Germany
1980 establishments in West Germany