Fernsehturm is the
German
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word for
television tower
Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-mad ...
. A number of German cities have television towers and each will usually be referred to simply as "Fernsehturm" by the inhabitants of the city.
The correct term for the tower as a Building although would be "Fernmeldeturm" which depicts the original purpose of most of these towers; relaying any type of communication, not only television.
It may refer to any of the following structures:
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Fernsehturm Berlin
The Berliner Fernsehturm or Fernsehturm Berlin ( en, Berlin Television Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.
Located in the Marien quarter (''Marienviertel''), close to Alexanderplatz in the locality and district of Mitte, t ...
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Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf
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Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz
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Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart ( en, Stuttgart TV Tower) is a telecommunications tower in Stuttgart, Germany. It was the first telecommunications tower in the world constructed from reinforced concrete, and it is the prototype for many such towers worldw ...
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Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
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Florianturm (
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is th ...
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Fernmeldeturm Münster
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Fernsehturm Heidelberg
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Heinrich Hertz Tower (
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
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