Utbremen Radio Tower

Not to be confused with Mediumwave transmitter Bremen.
Utbremen Radio Tower
Utbremen Funkturm
Alternative namesUtbremen Transmission Tower, Utbremen Broadcast Tower, Mooris Transmission Tower
General information
TypeLattice radio tower
LocationBremen, Bremen, Germany
CountryGermany,  Nazi Germany
Construction started1933
Completed1933
Destroyed1939
Height
Antenna spire90 m (295 ft)

Utbremen Radio Tower, also known as Utbremen Transmission Tower or Utbremen Broadcast Tower, (German: Utbremen Funkturm "Utbremen Radio Tower") was a wooden German lattice radio tower that was mainly built for mediumwave broadcasting. The tower was built in 1933 but was destroyed six years later, in 1939, by lightning. It had an antenna that was 90 metres long.[1]

History

The Utbremen Radio Tower was built in the city of Bremen, in the year 1933. It was then destroyed, six years after the tower was built, by lightning.[1]

Geography

The Utbremen Radio Tower was located in the Hanseatic city municipality of Bremen, which is the capital city of the free Hanseatic state of Bremen, the smallest of Germany's 16 states.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Utbremen Transmission Tower - SkyscraperPage Forum".
  2. ^ Bremen
  3. ^ Bremen (state)


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