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Television
Tower yesterday and today
Architecture
The world's first television tower located in Stuttgart. For over 50 years, defying the 217 meter high tower wind and weather. That the first tower would actually keep up with a steel-concrete construction, construction, not all were believed to Stuttgart.
After a construction period of 20 months of the Stuttgart TV tower was on the 5th Inaugurated in February 1956. He became a prototype which is across the globe and developed replicas - from Dortmund to Frankfurt via Johannesburg and Wuhan in China.
A tower is not only for technology
Originally, the South German Radio wanted to put their antennas on a 200 meter high, with wire ropes secured iron lattice towers. The famous Stuttgart bridge builder and structural engineer, Professor Fritz Leonhardt suggested, however present a concrete tower. The novelty of his idea of not only the construction but the proposal, the building was also used to tourists and gastronomically. Thus, an aesthetic tower was included with a nearly circular cylindrical basket, the observation deck, restaurant and transmitter technology. The construction cost of 4.2 million dollars already amortized in five years by the admission fees.
Today is a landmark of Stuttgart
Today's TV tower is one of the landmarks of Stuttgart. From no other point from the Stuttgart city views, is so impressive about the vineyard landscape of the Neckar Valley, on the land over to the Swabian Jura, the Black Forest and the Odenwald and the TV tower.
Television
Tower yesterday and today
Architecture
The world's first television tower located in Stuttgart. For over 50 years, defying the 217 meter high tower wind and weather. That the first tower would actually keep up with a steel-concrete construction, construction, not all were believed to Stuttgart.
After a construction period of 20 months of the Stuttgart TV tower was on the 5th Inaugurated in February 1956. He became a prototype which is across the globe and developed replicas - from Dortmund to Frankfurt via Johannesburg and Wuhan in China.
A tower is not only for technology
Originally, the South German Radio wanted to put their antennas on a 200 meter high, with wire ropes secured iron lattice towers. The famous Stuttgart bridge builder and structural engineer, Professor Fritz Leonhardt suggested, however present a concrete tower. The novelty of his idea of not only the construction but the proposal, the building was also used to tourists and gastronomically. Thus, an aesthetic tower was included with a nearly circular cylindrical basket, the observation deck, restaurant and transmitter technology. The construction cost of 4.2 million dollars already amortized in five years by the admission fees.
Today is a landmark of Stuttgart
Today's TV tower is one of the landmarks of Stuttgart. From no other point from the Stuttgart city views, is so impressive about the vineyard landscape of the Neckar Valley, on the land over to the Swabian Jura, the Black Forest and the Odenwald and the TV tower.