KEMA Toren is a broadcasting tower built of reinforced concrete at
Arnhem
Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Ăˆrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both banks of ...
, Netherlands. It was built in 1969 by
KEMA
Kema or KEMA may refer to:
* KEMA, an energy consultancy company
* Kema (river), a river in Russia
* Kema District, a district in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
*Kema Chikwe, Nigerian politician
* Kema Jack (born 1982), footballer from Papua New Guinea
...
for communicating between high voltage
substations throughout the Netherlands. It is now used for public
radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...
and
TV broadcasting. It is also known as TenneT Toren, after
TenneT
TenneT is a transmission system operator in the Netherlands and in a large part of Germany.
''TenneT B.V.'' is the national electricity transmission system operator of the Netherlands, headquartered in Arnhem. Controlled and owned by the Dutch g ...
, the present owner of the tower.
See also
*
List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
External links
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Page at emporis.comPage at SkyscraperCityPhoto at nederlandonline
Communication towers in the Netherlands
Towers in Gelderland
Buildings and structures in Arnhem
Towers completed in 1969
1969 establishments in the Netherlands
20th-century architecture in the Netherlands
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