The State Radio House of Lower Saxony () is a group of buildings owned by the public broadcaster

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...

in Hanover, the state capital of

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, Germany. The broadcaster is based in

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, but has facilities in the capitals of other states that it serves. The building group is situated at the on the eastern shore of the

Maschsee The Masch Lake () is an artificial lake situated south of the city centre of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Covering an area of , it is the largest body of water within Hanover and a popular recreation area as well as venue for ...

. When it was built in 1949–1952, it was known as the Hanover Radio House (). In addition to administrative buildings and an antenna tower, it includes two halls for public concerts: the large broadcasting hall () opened in 1963, and the small broadcasting hall ().

History

The history of broadcasting in Hanover dates back to 1924 when the first radio programs were aired from a factory building of the engineering firm

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. After

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, that building was in the British zone. A new office () was opened in the in 1945, and first concerts were aired from buildings of the (

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). Regular broadcasting, now by the

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; ''Northwest German Broadcasting'') was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Federal States of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September ...

(NWDR) began in 1948, including symphony concerts and the series (radio images from Lower Saxony), which began with the second Export-Messe. Plans for a new Funkhaus began end of 1948. Rudolf Hillebrecht, responsible for municipal building, voted for the location, to set an example for buildings along the lake. After a competition, designs by ,

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and

Dieter Oesterlen Dieter Oesterlen (April 5, 1911 – April 6, 1994) was a German architect. He re-built the Leineschloss, the Marktkirche, and the opera house all in Hanover after the destruction of World War II. Oesterlen's father was the chief engineer of a tu ...

were combined. The first buildings were completed in 1950, and inaugurated on 20 January 1951. Due to the advanced technical equipment of the complex, it was immediately called the most modern Funkhaus in Europe. In 1955 the NWDR was split in the NDR in Hamburg and the

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(WDR) in Cologne. A redaction team of the NDR was installed in the Funkhaus in 1958. Oesterlen designed the concert hall which was built from 1960 to 1963. From 1 January 1981, the complex was called . In 1989, it became a registered monument of the

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* Niels Rasmussen
Besuchen Sie uns im NDR Landesfunkhaus!
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