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Structure-ID: s0000071
Created on: 28/10/98
Modified on: 19/02/08


Stuttgart Television Tower

Stuttgarter Fernsehturm
Built: 1954 - 1956
Status: in use
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Geographic
Coordinates: 		 48°45'21" North
009°11'25" East
Stuttgart Television Tower.
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Structural Type:
Vertical cantilever structure
Function / usage:
VHF/UHF transmitter

Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
Designer Fritz Leonhardt
Architect Erwin Heinle

Firms, offices, etc. involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
RoleNamePart of structure 
Owner Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Construction G. Epple
  Wayss & Freytag

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
shaft  reinforced concrete
antenna  steel
platform  steel
Dimensions
  height to antenna 1965: 216.61 m
  height to platform (1) 153.5 m
  height to platform (2) 150 m
foundation slab   diameter 27 m
  weight 1 500 t
  thickness 3.25 m
shaft   diameter at base 10.80 m
  diameter at platform 5.10 m
  wall thickness max. 0.8 m
tower   weight 3000 t
Cost
  cost of construction DM 4 200 000

Chronology
10 January 1954
Laying of foundation stone.
1983
Renovation of platform structures.
1987
Renovation of platform structures.
1990
Renovation of platform structures.

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Relevant Literature
* Rundfunk-Sendeanlagen, vth-Verlag, Baden-Baden (Germany) , ISBN 3881806458; pp. 38-41.
* Andrä, Hans-Peter   Erfahrungen aus 40 Jahren Überwachung des Stuttgarter Fernsehturms, des weltweit ersten Stahlbetonfernsehturms, in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", August 1998, n. 8 v. 93 .
* Fernsehturm-Betriebs-GmbH   Fernsehturm Stuttgart, Fernsehturm-Betriebs-GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany) , 1991.
* Gouge, Francis   La tour de télévision de Stuttgart a 50 ans, in "Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment", 13 October 2006, n. 5368 .
* Heinle, Erwin   Türme aller Zeiten - aller Kulturen (3rd edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3421029318, 1997; pp. 222-224.
* Kleinmanns, Joachim   Der Stuttgarter Fernsehturm / The Stuttgart television tower, in Fritz Leonhardt 1909-1999 ; pp. 88-99.
* Leonhardt, Fritz   Der Stuttgart Fernsehturm, in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", 1956 v. 51 .
* Lutz, Harald   Der Stuttgarter Fernsehturm und seine Brüder, funkamateur 5/2004.
* Picon, Antoine   L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France) , ISBN 2858509115, 1997; pp. 488-489.
* Schlaich, Jörg   Ingenieurbauführer Baden-Württemberg (1st edition), Bauwerk Verlag, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3934369014, 1999; pp. 486-488.
* Wörner, Martin   Stuttgart - Ein Architekturführer (2nd edition), Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3496011572, 1997; pp. 168.

 
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