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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-m ...
. A number of German cities have television towers and each will usually be referred to simply as "" 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 Fernsehturm (; ) in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power.
It remains a landmark today from its p ...
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Fernsehturm Schwerin-Zippendorf 150px, Schweriner Fernsehturm
150px, TV tower and radio mast
The Schweriner Fernsehturm is a 136.5-metre-tall communications tower built of steel-concrete between 1960 and 1964 in Schwerin, Germany. Unlike most other TV towers, the ground plan is ...
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Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz
The Fernsehturm Dresden-Wachwitz is a TV tower in Dresden, Germany. It is situated on the ''Wachwitzer Elbhöhen'' and serves as a transmitting tower for television and radio broadcasts. Due to its visibility over large distances and its unusual f ...
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Fernsehturm Stuttgart
Fernsehturm Stuttgart () 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 worldwide. Although controver ...
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Fernmeldeturm Mannheim
The Fernmeldeturm Mannheim is a concrete telecommunication tower with an observation deck in Mannheim, Germany. It was designed by the architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and built from 1973 and 1975. It contains transmission facilities for ...
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Florianturm
The Florianturm (Florian Tower, ''Florian'' for short) is a telecommunications tower and landmark of Dortmund (Germany). It is named after St. Florian, the patron saint of gardeners.
The Florianturm is the TV tower of Dortmund and was built i ...
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Dortmund
Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...
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Fernmeldeturm Münster
The Fernmeldeturm Münster (Telecommunication Tower Münster) or, colloquial: "Fernsehturm" (TV-Tower) is the modern landmark of Münster completed in 1985/86. The tower, which is used for directional services and TV-, VHF- and UHF-transmission ...
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Fernsehturm Heidelberg
The Fernsehturm Heidelberg is a Transmission (telecommunications), transmission tower for FM broadcasting, FM and DVB-T on the Königstuhl (Odenwald), Königstuhl hill of Heidelberg at . It was the property of the City of Heidelberg and sold to th ...
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Heinrich Hertz Tower
The Heinrich Hertz Tower () is a landmark radio telecommunication tower in the city of Hamburg, Germany.
Designed by architect Fritz Trautwein, in co-operation with civil engineers Jörg Schlaich, Rudolf Bergermann and Fritz Leonhardt, the towe ...
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Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...
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