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Created on: 21/08/99
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Berlin Transmission Tower

Funkturm Messegelände
Built: 1924 - 1926
Status: in use
Address: Messedamm
Location: Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
Geographic
Coordinates: 
52°30'18" North
013°16'41" East
Berlin transmission tower
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Structural Type:
Steel truss tower (free standing)
Function / usage:
Communications tower
Observation tower
Replaces: Hilfssendemast Berlin-Witzleben (1924)

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Designer Heinrich Straumer

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Structural engineering Turmbau Steffens & Nölle GmbH
Contractor Turmbau Steffens & Nölle GmbH

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
tower  steel
Dimensions
  height to antenna 150 m
  highest platform at 126 m
  weight 600 t
  height to open-air deck 121.492 m
  dimensions at base 18.5 m x 18.5 m
  shaft height 129.292 m
  height to restaurant level 51.652 m
  height to kitchen level 48.122 m
foundation slab   width 24.5 m

Chronology
1987
Completely renovated for the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin.

Relevant Literature
* 65 Jahre Funkturm (brochure/prospectus), Berlin (Germany) , 1991.
* Rundfunk-Sendeanlagen, vth-Verlag, Baden-Baden (Germany) , ISBN 3881806458; pp. 22-26.
* Wie man ein Wahrzeichen wird, Verlag A. und E. Freud, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3921532043, 1976.
* Heinle, Erwin   Türme aller Zeiten - aller Kulturen (3rd edition), Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3421029318, 1997; pp. 219.
* Wörner, Martin   Architekturführer Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin (Germany) ; pp. 178.

 
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