Heinrich-Hertz-Turm
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The Heinrich-Hertz-Turm (named after the German physicist and Hamburg-born Heinrich Hertz) is a radio telecommunication tower and a famous landmark of Hamburg, Germany.
Designed by architects Fritz Trautwein and Fritz Leonhardt, in co-operation with civil engineers Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann, it was built 1965–1968 for the then Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post and Telecommunications Agency) near Planten un Blomen (Hamburg's city park) and the St. Pauli district. With an overall height of 279 m (915 ft) it is Hamburg's tallest building; it comprises a 204 m (892 ft) steel-enforced concrete lower section, topped by a 50 m (164 ft) steel-lattice tower, which supports various antennas.
There are 8 concentric platform stacked one above the other; starting at 128 m (420 ft) with the two-story observation (lower floor) and restaurant (upper floor) platform, served by two high-speed elevators. Above that at 150 m (492 ft) are the operations platform housing the workforce and equipment, and further up 6 equally spaced, smaller open platforms, populated with high-gain directional antennas ("parabolic mirrors").
After the observation platform and restaurant were closed (due to financial reasons), former stuntman Jochen Schweitzer had a bungee jumping platform installed. The restaurant will not open again due to new fire escape regulations, the bungee platform was closed after an accident on a similar platform in another German city.
The tower has been home to the VFDB Hamburg section's radio amateur club station "DF0HHT". It also housed a DGPS transmitting station serving the city of Hamburg's Surveying Agency.
A plaque on the tower's wall reads: "Heinrich Hertz — Dem Sohn der Stadt Hamburg" honouring the city's famous son.
See also: List of towers
External links
- http://www.structurae.net/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0000118
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